TRAILBLAZER: Alan Clark, the rural city’s director of infrastructure services, has been the architect behind the establishment of the first council built and operated organics processing plant in Victoria. The plant is in its licensing phase where samples of organic matter have to be sent for testing. After that council is looking to ramp up its operations. PHOTO: Steve Kelly
Five years ago staff at Wangaratta council knew there was a movement towards the recycling of organics material and they had a vision of building and operating the first local government run processing facility in Victoria.