00:00What began as a waste solution for WA now heading for the tip itself.
00:07For months, food and organic waste known as FOGO has been dumped in landfill.
00:12The Bunbury-Harvey Regional Council stopped taking the waste due to high levels of contamination.
00:17A recent char of Dardenup-led tender failed to find a suitable option.
00:22Soon the Dardenup Council and others will look at scrapping the bins for good.
00:26As we approach Christmas it's 12 months of no FOGO. We're collecting it as FOGO but it's going to landfill and I think that's probably long enough.
00:34Councils have made a last ditch plea to the State Government to help save their FOGO bins.
00:39The ideal solution, a local processing facility. That could cost millions.
00:44We've asked for some cash, it's what we need. But in lieu of that, some other solution would be appreciated but we haven't been able to find it.
00:54Great work!
00:56In Perth, more councils are adopting FOGO backed by State Government grants.
01:00WA's largest council by population, the City of Stirling, is not yet convinced.
01:05We're not confident at the moment that those processing facilities are able to cater for the volume from the City of Stirling.
01:12WA's Environment Minister Matthew Swinborn says FOGO remains an important part of WA's move to a more circular waste economy.
01:20He says he's working with local councils to try and find solutions but the opposition says those solutions should have come a long time ago.
01:28What they need to do is either progress FOGO across the board and invest in it fully to make it work or walk away from it.
01:35You can't go halfway and expect local councils to pick up the slack.
01:39Southwest councils are adamant the clock is ticking to find a fix.
01:43They are motto-spoken-squいき.
01:45We have to do so-and-campus of the board and put the experts to try and get a fix.
01:47Let's take what they need for.
01:49It's to be straightforward to see what they need and it's not fitting.
01:50Let's take a look at the time.
01:51Now, we're waiting for the floor of the board.
01:53We will ask the floor of the board and be mindful of each other for the board.
01:55We will have to drive the floor of the board and be mindful of each other within a week,
01:56and to make the floor of the board.
01:58We will have to drive the floor to the floor and not disappoints with the Boatina on earth,
02:00we will have to go to the floor of the board and the floor.
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