SA's Recycling Survey for 2018-19 released
- Waste and recycling
November 08, 2020
South Australia's recycling performance in a quick snapshot. For more detail, see the latest report here.
- 83.8 per cent of all waste generated in South Australia was diverted from landfill. This equates to 4.34 million tonnes of material not going to waste.
- Since 2003, the recycling rate has improved by nearly 22 per cent and the resource recovery has increased from approximately 2 million tonnes to just over 4.3 million tonnes a year.
- The waste management, resource recovery and recycling sector employs approximately 4,800 South Australians (both directly and indirectly).
- The market value of recovered resources in 2018-19 was $348 million dollars.
- South Australia leads the nation with the best recycling rate.
- South Australia has the best per capita resource recovery rate in the nation.
- Our diversion and recovery rate means 1.31 million tonnes of greenhouse gases are not being released, the same as planting 2 million trees; or taking 302,000 cars off the road each year
