Episode: Eight
Air Date: 18th of October 2008
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane
Story Title: Sita SAWT Facilities

When waste is dumped to landfill, it breaks down and produces Methane gas, which is one of the worst greenhouse gases. Trevor pays a visit to a SITA Advanced Waste Treatment Facility to see how this waste can be turned into compost.

Featured Waste Treatment Facility

Cairns Bedminster Composting Plant

• New waste and recycling technology is making Far North Queensland a greener and more environmentally friendly place to live and work.
• SITA currently operates at the Cairns based Bedminster composting plant, and now offers new recycling and composting solutions to more than 130,000 residents in the council areas of Cairns, Douglas and Mareeba.
• SITA Environmental Solutions' facility is an alternative waste technology that converts municipal, commercial and industrial waste into green compost and recovers materials for re-use, reducing the volume of waste sent to landfill by around 80%.
• Compost produced at the facility is distributed to cane farms within the region to improve crop yield.

 The three principles of SITA's Advanced Waste Treatment (SAWT) technology are:

• Recovery of all reusable resources from household waste
• Separation of organic materials
• Composting of almost 100% of the organic fraction into a high grade compost

Contact
SITA Head Office and National Administration Centre:
Level 3
3 - 5 Rider Boulevard
RHODES   NSW
Phone: 61 2 8754 0000
Fax:     61 2 8754 0199
Customer Service Hotline: 13 13 35
Website: www.sita.com.au