00:04Almost $15 million since 2022 into the tip.
00:09The BHRC has been paid to manage waste disposal in the South West for more than three decades.
00:16Plagued by compliance issues and environmental breaches,
00:20the authority now deemed unviable by its member councils, Bunbury and Harvey.
00:25I wouldn't call this a failure.
00:26The previous costs in capping those sites and effectively potentially still the licence to carry on with waste disposal is
00:34still going to be an asset.
00:35The Bunbury-Harvey Regional Council will be dissolved pending state government approval.
00:40What will take its place remains uncertain.
00:43This has been a work in progress for some time.
00:46There's no issues that have brought this to a head.
00:49It's an entire overhaul needed, there's no doubt about that.
00:52We are at a stage where you can't just keep finding another empty field and fill it full of rubbish.
00:59The BHRC was in charge of this region's uptake of the three-bin FOGO system to divert food and organic
01:06waste from landfill.
01:08Bunbury was the state's first council to do so, but contaminated waste is set to cost it millions,
01:14with green waste still being sent to landfill, soon to be trucked all the way to Perth for processing.
01:20For the Shire of Harvey, FOGO is a no-go.
01:23We will wait until we get a processing facility in the south-west.
01:30We need to get FOGO processed in the south-west, full stop.
01:36Waste collection and disposal services will continue while the BHRC is transitioning to a new model.
01:43Waste collection, full stop.
01:45Waste collection and plastic.
01:47Waste collection, veto collection,
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