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Spring Farm Advanced Resource Recovery Facility (or Spring Farm ARR Facility, formerly Macarthur Resource Recovery Park, and originally Jacks Gully Waste and Recycling Centre) is a Resource Recovery Facility, Materials Recycling Facility, and landfill located in Spring Farm, New South Wales, Australia.
View of Transmission Gully near Battle Hill Farm in 2008 Transmission Gully, a chain of steep-sided, isolated valleys in the Wellington Region of New Zealand, runs approximately north–south between the Kāpiti Coast and Tawa, through hills east of Porirua. The gully's name comes from the 110,000-volt transmission line that formerly ran through it. The line, built in 1924, linked Wellington ...
The export of hazardous waste is regulated by the Imports and Exports (Restrictions) Act 1988. New Zealand is also a party to the Basel Convention, which regulates the import and export of hazardous waste including plastic. [16] Between early 2018 and February 2019, Indonesia received 13,829 tonnes of plastic waste from New Zealand.
Australia produces much waste; [94] according to various studies, this is due to an economy based on an intensive use of materials, [54] to population growth (as of September 2018, Australia counts more than 25 million people), [93] [95] population demographic and urban sprawl, and Gross domestic product GDP.
New Zealand's geomorphology is formed through an interaction between uplift, erosion and the underlying rock type. Most of the notable examples listed here are formed by selective erosion , for example waves and rivers can more easily erode sandstone than basalt and can also exploit joints or faults in the rock-mass. [ 1 ]
The Waste Minimisation Act is an Act of Parliament passed in New Zealand in 2008.. It was a Private Members Bill introduced by Nándor Tánczos.The major provisions of the Act are: a levy on landfill waste, promoting product stewardship schemes, some mandatory waste reporting, clarifying the role of territorial authorities with respect to waste minimisation, and sets up a Waste Advisory Board.
The gully was formed by the upper reaches of Lindsay Creek, a tributary of the Water of Leith which flows along North East Valley. The gully is surrounded by an 86-hectare (210-acre) reserve and recreational area at the start of walking and trail-biking tracks which lead up the slopes of Mount Cargill, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) to the north.
Benchmarking data published by Water New Zealand as part of their 2018/19 National Performance Review showed that capital expenditure on three waters assets in the Wellington region is well below the average of the expenditure on networks in most other major centres, and for the wastewater network, expenditure was the lowest out of the seven large networks in the review.