In Launceston,Tasmania beverage and food container recycling is the hardest to achieve. Fees are charged,depending on size of vehicle. Most stores can accept clothes,bric a brac and furniture. Clothing bins are located everywhere. They collect shop,office and industry waste material,offcuts etc as a reverse garbage operation and resell it to schools,playgroups,craftspeopletc.
All materials are available for a gold coin donation for a shopping bag full.
Laser printers used 786.7 billion sheets of paper in 1996 and will use 1.2 trillion in 2001. Continue your research into kerbside recycling,click to go to the Recycling Action Group page on Clean Up Launceston's site. Get on line quick using the eLaunceston Personal Homepage Creator - HomeZone .