Lotus Glen Correctional Centre's industry leading Environmental Management Recycling Program has been nationally recognised at the 2024 Waste Innovation & Recycling Awards.
Named Most Outstanding Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery (WARR) project: Regional/rural, the centre's recycling program has diverted between 700 and 1000 tonnes of waste from landfill since its creation in 2022.
Utilising prisoner labour to divert about 50 per cent of the centre's waste from landfill, the program is Queensland's largest recycling program in a correctional centre.
Before a prisoner workforce industry was established to collect, sort and divert all possible waste streams, it was identified that up to 54 tonnes of waste per month was being sent to landfill.
