CUTTING home building waste is promoted by a rubble recycling brochure launched in Maddington last week.
More than half the State’s landfill comes from building, which is a drain on infrastructure and the environment, and builders and the State Government want to reduce it.
The Recycling Works information package for WA commercial builders would increase recycling and reduce landfill, saving builders the recently increased landfill levy, promoters said.
At the Kelvin Road All Earth Group Recycling Facility, East Metropolitan MLC Helen Morton said WA needed to improve building recycling rates because 56 per cent of all landfill came from construction.
Dr Anne-Marie Bremner, from brochure authors Encycle Consulting, said it had been written after talking with architects, builders and the Government.
But Waste Management Association working group chairman Adrian Lester said the State Government needed to do more.
“It’s a professional embarrassment that WA is recycling only half as much construction waste as South Australia, and a quarter as much as New South Wales,” he said.
Recent tripling of the levy was needed, but the effect was undermined by the low $3cu/m base charge rate, he said.
South Australia’s charge is double WA’s and NSW builders recycle 80 per cent of their materials or pay a dumping fee six times greater than their west coast counterparts.