PRODUCT SHOWCASE – TRUCKS AND VEHICLES
Wastech’s Clearline trailers incorporate high tensile steel plates in the body, reducing tare weight and increasing payloads.
Decades of waste ejection WITH 10 CLEARLINE WASTE TRAILERS DELIVERED AND NINE MORE ON THE WAY, A LONG-TIME INDUSTRY STALWART OUTLINES HIS 20-YEAR RELATIONSHIP WITH WASTECH ENGINEERING.
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n 2017-2018, Victoria’s waste and resource recovery sector managed 12 per cent more material than the previous year, at over 14.4 million tonnes. The state achieved a 69 per cent diversion rate, recovering almost 10 million tonnes of material. Despite high diversion rates, as with anywhere, Victoria still has to
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manage large volumes of waste that can’t be recycled. This reality is well known to council waste transfer station managers, with one such operator telling Waste Management Review that his transfer station moves 4500 tonnes of waste each month, equating to roughly 225 trailer loads. The transfer station he runs, which
was built in 1980, underwent a major refurbishment in 2000 with the intention of streamlining the delivery of essential waste management services to the Melbourne suburb’s residents. Prior to the refurbishment, the council representative says the transfer station moved waste with
