What happens to your recycling?

At the start of the recycling crisis of 2018, the City of Burnside's waste management provider East Waste sought to safeguard the integrity of the recycling stream that it collects for its member councils - Cities of Burnside, Mitcham, Prospect, Campbelltown, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters, Adelaide Hills Council and the Town of Walkerville.

East Waste entered into a recycling contract with a local council-owned resource processor, the Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority (NAWMA). This means that everything delivered to NAWMA by East Waste is processed without stockpiling, and the majority of the material is sold for secondary reprocessing in Australia. Burnside's recycling material does not go to landfill.

East Waste collects your recycling from the kerbside and delivers it to the NAWMA facility in Pooraka.

NAWMA have created this video that explains what happens to your recycling.

More information on East Waste can be found here https://www.eastwaste.com.au/

If you want to find out more about NAWMA visit https://www.nawma.sa.gov.au/