Victorians would get a fourth bin for glass and all non-recyclable household rubbish would be burnt or converted to generate electricity under a radical overhaul proposed for the state’s crisis-prone recycling system.

No household rubbish would go to the tip under the recommendations from the parliamentary waste review, which also urged the adoption of a container deposit scheme and an education campaign to boost recycling rates.

A Victorian parliamentary committee has created a plan to prevent household waste being sent to landfill by 2030. Credit:

The review, conducted by a committee of Victorian MPs from across the political divide, was triggered after China last year decreed it would no longer accept contaminated recycling and recycling giant SKM collapsed, forcing some councils to send tonnes of recycling to landfill.

Waste can be diverted to energy via several processes, the report said. That can include incineration, generating synthetic gas that is heated to drive steam turbines and fermentation to create carbon dioxide and alcohol to produce liquid fuel.