BY ERIN BULL
13 Apr, 2010 04:00 AM
MAROONDAH ratepayers are expected to be hit with a waste charge hike in 2010-11.
Maroondah Council will pay $21 more per tonne of dumped waste from July 1 this year after the state government announced a rise in the landfill levy from $9 to $30.
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13th April 2010 02:00:37 AM
RESIDENTS will ultimately bear the brunt of a massive 233 per cent increase in the State Government’s landfill levy on Yarra Ranges Council.
If the full increase were to be passed on to residents at the tip-face, the cost of dumping a cubic metre of rubbish at Healesville or Wesburn tips would increase from $60 to $140.
The Eastern Region Mayors Group, which represents 10 municipalities including Yarra Ranges, wrote to Premier John Brumby questioning the magnitude and the timing of the increase in the levy from $9 per tonne to $30 per tonne.
The levy is a government charge on councils for the rubbish transferred from local council tips to the Lyndhurst tip.
Comment: I hope this does not increase the dumping of rubbish on our roads.
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