Food and Organics (FOGO) Facility completed and set to reduce landfill

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Dulverton Waste Management has unveiled a state-of-the-art Regional Organics Facility in Tasmania’s North West to reduce the amount going to landfill.

Funded by both the Tasmanian Government’s Organic Waste Processing Grant Program and the Australian Government’s Regional Recovery Partnerships Program, the Dulverton Organics Treatment Facility is now officially complete.

Receiving $9 million towards the project from both State and Australian Governments, the new Latrobe facility is capable of processing more than 50,000 tonnes of organic waste each year and turning it into compost.

The $32 million plant has supported the start of food organics and garden organics (FOGO) services to 38,000 households across the Cradle Coast region, as well as providing improved and enhanced composting operations for aquaculture, dairy, brewery, poultry and other primary industries.

It’s expected to divert 7500 tonnes of organic waste away from landfill.

Dulverton Waste Management CEO Veronica Schilling said the facility supported the expansion of food and garden organic material collection and processing from one Council to five Councils on the North-West Coast, as well as allowing organic materials currently landfilled to be recycled into compost.