The Waste Contractors & Recyclers Association of Queensland (Inc) represents all private sector and corporatized contractors whose core business activity in Queensland is contracting to provide essential waste and recycling services including:

Solid and Liquid waste management, collection and disposal
Recycling of waste materials, including Kerbside collected recyclables, used timber products, waste used tyres, ferrous and non-ferrous metals
Secondary Reprocessing of commercial and industrial as well as construction and demolition waste streams
Operating of transfer stations, landfills including state of the art "Bio Reactors" and "Land Banks".
Operating renewable power generation plants

Our Membership - Exceeds 80 companies statewide.  Greater than 50% of the membership employs fewer than 20 staff.
  Our Statistics - Member assets exceed $1 billion invested or managed, we employ more than 5,700 Queenslanders, recycle or reprocess in excess of 3 million tonnes annually, with total waste and recyclables either collected, transported, controlled, recycled, reprocessed and disposed exceeding 6.8 million tonnes per annum.

 

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LATEST PUBLICATIONS
WCRAQ Response to Draft State Planning on Air, Noise and Hazardous Materials
06 March 2010
The association congratulates the department in preparing such a pivotal and important planning policy and we submit the following comments for its consideration.
Draft State Planning Policy - Air, Noise and Hazardous Materials
06 March 2010
The draft State Planning Policy provides direction for the preparation of local planning instruments, and in development assessment. The intent of this direction is to protect the environmental values, human safety, and the viability of industrial development in Queensland.