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Your Business and the Carbon Pricing Mechanism

The Carbon Pricing Mechanism, (also referred to as the CPM or Carbon Tax in the media), is an Australian Government initiative that will put a price...

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NSW Environmental Report Hotline

SITA has established a dedicated Environmental Hotline for anyone living or working close to our sites in NSW. This service is available 24/7. To find out more...

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SITA sponsors KABNSW EnivroMentors Program

SITA Australia is the proud sponsor of the Keep Australia Beautiful NSW EnviroMentors education program.

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NSW Waste Acceptance & Charges Brochure

Your guide to recycling charges, opening hours and waste acceptance criteria at our NSW Resource Recovery sites.

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Landfills

SITA aims to maximise the volume of waste that is sent for recycling and resource recovery however, when hazardous or non-hazardous waste cannot be recovered, it must be treated and disposed of under acceptable environmental conditions.

SITA owns and operates Australia’s most highly solid waste engineered landfills.

We recognise that landfill plays an important and necessary part in managing Australia's waste disposal. Even new technologies generate a proportion of residual waste stream which must be disposed of.

Secure, engineered facilities are the community’s best environmental management option for those wastes that can’t yet be recycled or reused.

Using the latest technology and drawing on our international experience, our landfill operations are carefully designed to minimise the amount of space used. They maximise the operational lifetime of the landfill and limit the environmental and social impacts of landfilling.

Our landfill facility designs include a variety of environmental protection measures including strict waste acceptance and handling procedures, base liner systems, treatment of liquid by-products from waste (leachate), collection and use of landfill gas, groundwater and surface water management, and detailed environmental monitoring and reporting.  These measures meet or exceed requirements set out in the landfills’ operating licences issued by EPA.

Biogas produced as waste breaks down is captured and used to generate green electricity that is fed into the power grid.

SITA owns, operates, or has exclusive access to,  7 landfill facilities in Australia:

  1. Taylors Road Landfill, Dandenong South, VIC
  2. Hallam Road Landfill, Hampton Park, VIC
  3. Elizabeth Drive Landfill, Kemps Creek, NSW
  4. Newline Road Landfill, Port Stephens, NSW
  5. New Illawarra Road Landfill, Lucas Heights, NSW
  6. Wallgrove Road Landfill, Eastern Creek, NSW
  7. Shale Road Landfill, South Cardup, WA