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ASPIRE to reduce waste to landfill
A new website is set to play a pivotal role in helping Noosa businesses to divert waste product from landfill.
Keith Hamlyn of Loop Oils with oil containers to be recycled
The digital platform ASPIRE has been described as a marketplace for business.
Originally created by CSIRO, the website works on circular economy principles, connecting producers of waste with those who can reuse, repair, remake and recycle the products.
Noosa Council Waste Education & Sustainability Officer Emma Menzies said Council had invested in a license to help local business to improve its recycling efforts.
Accusations of unlawful processes, claims green groups were being held to ransom and a councillor voting against a motion she seconded dominated a heated debate as Gympie Region councillors tried to unravel the mess around their environmental funding grants yesterday. Only one of nine applications for funding drawn from the council s Environmental Levy was deemed valid by staff, and only 40 per cent of the $196,000 up for grabs was recommended to be awarded across four projects proposed by the Koala Action Group, Cooloola Coastcare, Mary River Catchment Co-ordinating Committee, and Gympie and District Landcare. The groups had already waited months for the grants to be awarded, a delay they criticised and called unprecedented .