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Bunbury ratepayers face a $1.2 million bill to truck food waste 160km
Bunbury, WA's second-largest city, will pay $1.2 million to transport organic food waste 160km to Perth to keep its FOGO recycling system alive.
Bunbury ratepayers will pay $1.2 million to truck food and organic waste 160 kilometres to Perth after local FOGO processing capacity collapsed. The three-bin organic waste system cannot function without the long-distance haul while Western Australia works to restore regional infrastructure.
The cost exposes the fragility of sustainability rollouts in cities beyond Perth.
Why it mattersThe bill shows how quickly green waste programs can become expensive liabilities when regional processing infrastructure is not ready to support them.
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