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Luke Costin

Wasting away: dump crisis needs 'landfill transition'

Within six years, Sydney is predicted to run out of landfill space as recycling rates stagnate. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

Sydney is fast running out of landfill.

And its limited options threaten to force NSW authorities to send some junk interstate after 2030 and force households to separate their food scraps.

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