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
Inside Waste - Media Article
19 August 2010
Queensland’s draft waste strategy has again come under fire from industry as the submission period on the 10-year plan closed yesterday. The Queensland Department of Environment, which is managing the renewed waste strategy, said it is not sure whether details of submissions to the strategy will be made publicly available, drawing the fire of the waste industry.
WCRAQ Briefing July 2010
19 August 2010
WCRAQ briefing regarding Queensland's Waste Strategy 2010-2011 - proposed reforms. Powerpoint presentation. 13/7/10