A new report has found if you lined up all the trucks coming into Queensland to dump rubbish in 2018, they would stretch from Brisbane to Mackay.
This is an increase of 37% from 2017, mostly driven from construction and demolition waste, while Queensland’s own waste increased by 11%, despite the population only increasing by 1.6%.
Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch says the report demonstrates the urgency to improve Queensland’s waste management, but blamed the problem on the former LNP government’s action to scrap a waste levy, seven years ago.