Dumped vehicles could fill the MCG over 400 times each vear

摘要

'Australia is facing an unforeseen environmental disaster if governments continue to ignore the hundreds of thousands of vehicles being dumped across the nation each year': that's the message from the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce. A total of 796,970 vehicles were sent to landfill in 2018. Based on the dimensions of Australia's top selling vehicle, the Toyota HiLux, that's an area of 7,879,761.9 square metres, enough to fill the MCG 445 times! Parked nose-to-tail, the total length would about the distance from Sydney to Auckland and back again.