costs and equipment, offering a ready vehicle for government to support by providing funding and policy support where the investment market is not already responding. The emerging honeybee industry in Dundas is a good example of an artisan scale niche market that can benefit from a cooperative approach to sharing costs and resources. The opportunity to grow this sector for the Shire would allow an increased contribution to the economy while improving pollination services for agriculture and horticulture.
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Resources Department of Primary industry and Regional Development – Business Development Manager www.waopenforbusiness.wa.gov.au Department of Primary Industries – Food Industry Innovation – +61 (0)8 9881 0221 foodindustryinnovation@agric.wa.gov.au Goldfields Esperance Food and Beverage Guide – https://bit.ly/3P9zQrA
Emerging Industries and Advanced Manufacturing
Recycling and the Circular Economy Australia and Western Australia’s commitment to divert 80 percent of waste from landfill by 2030, along with international import prohibitions on Australian comingled recyclables and regulations driving environmentally sustainable landfilling practices are driving rapid transformation of the waste sector. The potential for government and industry to benefit from investments in regional waste sorting and recycling is significant. Due to the vast scale of WA, returns are available across the regions, increasing as the distance from the metropolitan region grows. Due to the short distances that it is economic to transport low value per tonne and cubic metre cleaned and sorted waste materials, most regional areas will benefit from establishing materials sorting facilities at strategic locations to avoid the high transport and carbon costs shipping materials to Perth. There is the potential for sorted and cleaned plastics to be exported directly from the region to avoid land transport and carbon costs entirely and capture a small return. Other potential high-volume sources of revenue include the incorporation of certain types of recycled rubber, plastic, concrete and food and garden organics in road base, bitumen and concrete products. The initial market for these products is the transport sectors, but they have application for the property development sector and other types of economic and social infrastructure. Additional revenues are available through the carbon offsets available through using renewable energy to power sorting and recycling processes and methane emissions The Sandy Ridge Project is Australia’s first dual open-cut kaolin mine and arid near-surface geological waste repository in a 70-million-year-old kaolin clay bed, on top of some of the oldest and most stable rocks on earth which formed approximately 3.7 billion years ago. The Sandy Ridge Project is located approximately 240 kilometres (km) west-north-west of Kalgoorlie. Tellus plans to build a circular economy park at the Sandy Ridge Facility. The technologies used will be dependent on the waste received and the technical and economic viability of the waste material. The circular economy park will be subject to a separate approval process. 35 • The Shire of Coolgardie has been working with the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder and Shire of Esperance to progress a centralised waste infrastructure development strategy for the region. avoided through composting food and garden organics. Projects across the Goldfields Esperance region include: •
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