By Laura Michell
Recycling collections from across Brimbank will continue going to landfill for the foreseeable future after SKM Recycling was declared insolvent.
The Supreme Court granted an application last Friday for the company to be wound up, leaving 33 Victorian councils without access to a recycling processing facility.
Brimbank mayor Lucinda Congreve said the council was “bitterly disappointed” that SKM had been declared insolvent.
“This latest development seems to have confirmed our worst fears and leaves us- and many other councils- without a recycling processing facility for kerbside recycling for the foreseeable future,” she said.
“We are deeply concerned about the lack of clear options available to Brimbank- and to all of the other councils who now find themselves in the same situation.”
Brimbank council has been sending its recycling collections to landfill since SKM announced on July 25 that it would cease accepting collections.
The council said it is working with the Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Group, which manages council’s contract with SKM, to better understand the implications of SKM’s insolvency and to look for immediate and long-term solutions to manage recycling collections.
SKM’s insolvency comes as Brimbank council introduced cardboard and paper recycling drop-off points at Keilor Park and Laverton North in a bid to reduce the amount of recycling heading to landfill.
“We are looking at more potential drop-off locations, as well as other measures to continue to support recycling in Brimbank,” Cr Congreve said.
Paper and cardboard can be dropped off at the Brimbank Resource Recovery Centre, 72 Stadium Drive, Keilor Park between 9am-4pm on weekdays and 9am-1pm on Saturdays, or One Paper at 32 Plummer Road, Laverton North between 8am-4pm, Monday to Friday.
