Work on the next stage of Orange City Council’s landfill facility will start in 2024.
“The purpose-built waste site was designed with a series of giant landfill cells, each as big as two football fields and four metres deep,” Evans said. “Rather than simply dumping the waste in a hole, residential landfill waste is compressed into cubic metre bales in Orange and then transported to the site to be stacked in rows. “While most of the food waste has been removed, inevitably there will be some methane produced, which is a potent greenhouse gas produced by the landfill waste.