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.

The member's investment in the waste and recycling industry in Queensland is significant. Current capital estimates exceed $850 million, and directly we employ in waste and recycling activities more than 4,500 Queenslanders, recycle or reprocess more than 2 million tonnes of secondary products, and, collect, transport, recycle, reprocess manage or dispose more than 5 million tonnes of waste and secondary product annually in the state.

Gazetted EP Regulation  7/11/08

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LATEST PUBLICATIONS
WCRAQ Response to EPA Lets Not Waste Our Future Discussion Paper 2008
01 August 2008
The association commends the state on releasing this long awaited initiative and in producing the ‘‘Let’s Not Waste Our Future” discussion paper. It also appreciates the opportunity to provide responses to a number of key questions on behalf of our members, being the industry contractors and operators from the waste and recycling sector in Queensland...
WCRAQ Response to EPA Regulatory Impact Statement 2008
01 August 2008
Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association of Queensland response to the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency February 2008, Regulatory Impact Statement and draft Public Benefit Test for the Environmental Protection Regulation 1998 review process.