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Road safety catalyst for race to the top PREPARATIONS are well underway for this year’s Arthurs Seat Challenge fun run from Rosebud to the top of Arthurs Seat. At last week’s event launch students from Woodleigh School, Mt Eliza Secondary College, Toorak College and Rosebud Secondary College spoke about the benefits of the Fit 2 Drive program funded by the challenge. They said the program gave them skills that they would carry with them throughout their entire time as young road users. People aged 18-24 years are the most at risk group on the roads, with P-platers in their first year of driving, being 30 times more likely to crash than a more experienced driver. The Arthurs Seat Challenge highlights the importance of relevant road safety education for young people and helps schools pay for the Fit 2 Drive road safety program for year 11 students. The Arthurs Seat Challenge fun run will be held Sunday 8 November, starting at Rosebud pier and finishing at Seawinds Gardens at the summit of Arthurs Seat. Organisers expect more than 2000 competitiors in the 6.7km climb to the summit. Register at www.arthursseatchallenge.com.au “Road safety message to save lives�, Page 5
Meeting the challenge: Teacher Martin Hodgson with Rosebud Secondary College students Brooke Kinna, Bryce Mckay, Aaaryn Eddy, Sam Roane and Chloe Symons and principal Andrew Nichols at the launch of November’s Arthurs Seat Challenge. Picture: Yanni
Quarry waste target again David Harrison david@mpnews.com.au THE worked-out Pioneer quarry in Dromana could be used as a waste “bulk haul station� for consolidation of rubbish before it is transported in larger trucks to tips in Hampton Park or Werribee. This is despite Mornington Peninsula Shire’s new Waste and Resource Recovery draft report nominating a site in Dromana’s industrial estate for such a facility.
In manoeuvring highly reminiscent of that in a 2009 shire waste management report, the focus of the latest document is on expanding the shire tip, or landfill, at Rye, but with alternative waste technology (AWT) as the preferred option. The shire uses the acronym AWT to describe both waste “technology� and waste “treatment�. Expanding Rye was also the theme of the 2009 report, with the Pioneer quarry option mentioned discreetly. No provision was made in the subsequent shire budget to expand Rye, leading to
speculation that the shire had assumed the quarry would get the green light. The Environment Protection Authority refused use of the quarry as a tip in September 2013. Then, rather than falling back on the Rye option, the latest waste study was launched, arriving at the same conclusion – expand Rye. This study, dated April 2015, describes as “AWT� the shire practices of composting; sorting of recyclables; and waste separation. In the United States, Europe and
many other places, high-temperature incinerators are regarded as modern alternative “technology�. These are not likely to be available to the shire for years, if not decades, and would probably be a state government initiative. The latest report does not detail incinerators as a possibility. It states, however, the shire will support alternatives to landfill, “including an increase in the landfill levy�, currently $58.50 a tonne, collected from users of shire waste disposal facilities. Expansion of the Rye landfill, pre-
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