Maitland still wasting away while Newcastle makes millions from mega-dump

Michael Parris
December 5 2019 - 7:00am
Newcastle council says its Summerhill tip will not fill up for at least another 100 years at the current rate of use.
Newcastle council says its Summerhill tip will not fill up for at least another 100 years at the current rate of use.

Maitland City Council will keep paying millions of dollars a year to truck its garbage to Newcastle, which raked in $53 million in revenue last year from the Summerhill mega-dump.

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Michael Parris

Michael Parris

Journalist

Michael Parris reports on politics for the Newcastle Herald. He started at the Herald in 1994 after working in the ABC Newcastle newsroom. Michael spent much of his career as a sub-editor before moving into political reporting in 2017. He was a finalist in the Sports Australia national media awards for his stories about a male-only tennis club in Newcastle. He has covered NSW and federal elections, state and federal budgets and local politics. He has also written extensively about the COVID-19 pandemic with a special focus on data analysis and the effects of lockdowns on the Hunter community.

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