Earlier this year,an expected $70-per-tonne waste levy was set to be introduced,under a proposal the government insists will not have a direct cost for households,earlier next year.
The plan is aimed to stem the tide ofNew South Wales trucks coming across the border to dump thousands of tonnes of rubbish in Queensland landfills.
Ms Frecklington claimed the government was slugging Queenslanders even more with changes to the waste tax,claiming it was a"con job from the start".
“Labor is jacking up the cost of a tax they did not even take to the election,but dumped on Queenslanders in this year’s labor budget,"she said.
“Queenslanders will now fork out $75 per tonne,instead of the $70 per tonne slug put forward when the bad tax was first announced by Labor.
“The tax should not have been forced on Queenslanders in the first place,and now Labor have bungled its introduction."
However,Minister for Environment and the Great Barrier Reef Leeanne Enoch said Queenslanders would not have to pay more to put out their wheelie bins every week,by providing advance payments to councils.
“Queensland used to have a waste levy,but it was recklessly scrapped by the LNP,” she said.