This is a positive next step in the ongoing efforts to protect our environment and create a more sustainable future

The LGAQ welcomes the State’s decision to continue offsetting the cost of the waste levy on household wheelie bins until the community has more options available to reduce rubbish going to landfill.

Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) trials currently underway in four Queensland council areas are yielding promising results for the future of waste management in Queensland.

This National Recycling Week, councils across Queensland are pushing a number of educational and awareness activities to drive down the state’s the 15 per cent contamination rate.

This National Recycling Week, Hinchinbrook Shire Council is on the hunt to discover Ingham’s best recycler, offering those who have minimal contamination in their red and yellow bins.

Redland Coast residents and tradies have diverted 276,592kg of paint and packaging from landfill over the past three years through participation in a paint recycling scheme.

Our journeys as staff at LGAQ take us far and wide across Queensland, and I recently took up the opportunity to get up to date with Mayor Nev Ferrier and his executive team at Banana Shire Council.

Hi folks, your Association met with Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon and her senior departmental and ministerial staff this week.

Councils ask State to stop spinning around on waste levy plans

Queensland councils stand ready to work with the Palaszczuk Government on its review of its waste legislation but will not accept any proposal that will cost households more.

Councils are deeply concerned today’s budget only funded the State’s advance waste levy payments to councils for the 2021-22 financial year.

A ban on single-use plastic items and expanded polystyrene (EPS) products has been welcomed by Queensland’s peak local government body.

Almost 5,700 old tyres have been saved from landfill and recycled as part of a Fraser Coast Regional Council bitumen resealing program.

Do we unravel all the years of recycling messages or do councils show leadership and take it to the next level – a new direction? 

A national, integrated approach to water security, regional roads, waste and coastal inundation is essential.