The country’s first symposium on recycled organics will tackle their potential to create an industry worth more than $1 billion.
Australia produces 20 million tonnes of wasted organics – garden organics, forestry residues, municipal solid wastes, agricultural residues, biosolids, green waste and timber – each year.
Professor Chengrong Chen of the Griffith School of Environment, said currently 44 per cent of organics were recycled, 9 per cent were used to produce electricity and 47 per cent went to landfill.
“If we can recycle that remaining 47 per cent it could create an industry in recycled organics worth more than $1 billion,” he said.
“On the one hand we generate waste but on the other hand we’re saying how can we put that back to make things grow better?”
Held in partnership with Soil Science Australia and being opened by Queensland Chief Scientist Professor Suzanne Miller the symposium held at Griffith’s Nathan campus on Thursday (June 15)
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