When recycling your eligible containers in Noosa, spare some time for a quick browse of the nearby Reviva Shop at the Resource Recovery Centre on Eumundi-Noosa Road.
Here’s where you will discover a world of treasures.
Council’s waste coordinator Mark Borgert said a visit to the waste facility can be an eye-opener.
“The Reviva shop is fast becoming a treasure trove of projects, hardware wonders, outdoor furniture and renovation gems,” he said.
Open seven days, the shop has helped divert nearly 12,000 tonnes of waste from landfill in the last financial year – that’s up 22 per cent from the previous year.
“This is equivalent to keeping 1196 garbage trucks of waste out of our landfill cell,” Mr Borgert said.
The Reviva Reuse Shop is a social enterprise of Resource Recovery Australia, located at the Doonan site.
Mr Borgert said council remained focussed on creating a one stop recycling hub.
“With the new containers reverse vending machine, Reviva and the Polystyrene Thermal compaction machine, we are starting to significantly reduce what ends up in landfill,” he said.
The new compaction unit is likely to see about 50 tonnes of polystyrene spared from landfill annually.
“The more we recycle the more we can save,” Mr Borgert said.
Waste services and resource recovery manager Kyrone Dodd said the machine reduced polystyrene’s size by 90 per cent and turned it into product.
“What we process in a year means we would be diverting one Olympic size swimming pool every year from landfill and recycling it,” Mr Dodd said.
