The impact of China's decision to stop Australian wastes from entering the country has clearly demonstrated the need for significant capital investment on domestic infrastructure in Australia.

China's policy shift has had serious impacts Down Under.

Recyclable material in Australia is being wasted and ending up in landfill.

There has been unacceptable stockpiling of certain materials, and exportation of materials to other countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand which has led to reports of improper management.

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Australia can and should be processing this material onshore in Australia to create a fully integrated circular economy, according to Kevin Daly, co-owner and director of Central Waste Station at Kurri Kurri.

Central Waste is a fully integrated resource recovery facility providing waste disposal and waste collection services (all sizes of skip bins and also semi-trailer tipper and tanker services).

"We specialise in construction and demolition (C&D) as well as commercial and industrial (C&I) waste and can process up to 800 tonnes per day through our fully mechanised resource recovery plant," Mr Daly said.

"Heavy materials such as concrete and brick are crushed and screened onsite to produce a range of construction materials that are sold back into the industry as recycled product.

"We also undertake offsite project recycling initiatives including concrete and rock crushing to recover valuable resources."

Central Waste provides a full waste disposal and recycling service to the construction industry and local and national waste management groups.

Locally, its valued customers include the manufacturing sector, councils and residential customers.

"Our customers operate right across the local economy including housing and industrial construction projects, major demolition and remediation projects, commercial manufacturing and general industrial customers," Mr Daly said.

Legally, in NSW, waste must only be taken to a licensed waste facility.

"Waste that goes to landfill in NSW (within the metropolitan levy zone) is subject to a government levy of $141.20 per tonne.

"Materials can't be stockpiled beyond certain limits in NSW which has impacted some operators due to the "Green Curtain".

"When recyclable or re-usable materials are recovered for an authorised use, the recovered material is not subject to the landfill levy and this supports the viability of recycling," Mr Daly said.

"Recycled products are then sold back to the construction industry providing a full circular economy."

Central Waste has invested significant capital into its large scale resource recovery facility to ensure processes are fully mechanised which has increased volumes of waste sorted to recover recyclable components.

"Investment has allowed us to recover in the order of 80% of the material received at our facility," Mr Daly said.

"This recovery rate will increase over the coming years to an estimated 98% through the introduction of further processing using new technologies.

Through further investment Mr Daly is confident that Central Waste will become a key piece of regional resource recovery infrastructure, able to provide local councils with a superior option for processing of dry municipal waste.

Central Waste Station is located at 8 Styles Street, Kurri Kurri. For more information visit www.centralwaste.com.au or ring 1800 180 180.