CCTV footage shows Melbourne recycling crushed with rubbish to be dumped in landfill | ABC News

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A council in Melbourne's south-east says there's nothing it can do to enforce recycling in big apartment buildings, and the state government must step in.

The ABC has obtained CCTV vision from outside a Carnegie apartment building of big bins of recycling being routinely dumped into rubbish trucks to be taken to landfill.

The private waste operator responsible says contaminated recycling is a huge problem in apartment buildings.

The regulator, Recycling Victoria, says customers expect companies to recycle properly.

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