Waste engagement community workshops presentation final

Let’s talk less waste

Developing a 20 year waste strategy

Purpose of today

• Provide background to the current waste

situation

• Identify your values and drivers around waste

management

• Identify key goals you would like to see included

in our new 20 year waste management strategy

• Your opportunity to input into draft strategy, to

be released in upcoming months

How will be do this?

• Introductions

• Overview of waste management today

• Discussion on values and drivers

• Discussion on goals

• Priorities goals

• Wrap up and next steps

House rules

• Let’s agree on how we will work together today

Waste management today

• 30,000 households with a domestic waste service

• $394/household in 2014/15

Waste management today

What are we recycling?

Recycling Bin (yellow lid)

• 86% of paper and paper products are

recycled

• 73% of cardboard is recycled

• 86% of glass is recycled

• 76% of dominant plastics are recycled

• 44% of steel is recycled

• 65% of aluminium cans and foil are

recycled.

So what are we sending to landfill?

Garbage bins (red lid):

• 16% of paper products

• 60% of organic waste

• 4% of glass materials

• 9% of plastic products

• 3% of metals

• 2% of earth based products

• 4% of other waste products

How much are we recycling?

0%

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Waste diversion

Total recycled kerbside, rec at WMC and dom g/w Total domestic waste (bins, other domestic, ex rec WMC)

% diversion domestic waste (incl rec and dom g/w at WMC)

How much are we recycling per capita

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Domestic bin diversion per capita (kg)

Domestic bin waste per capita Kerbside recycling per capita Diversion

Linear (Domestic bin waste per capita) Linear (Kerbside recycling per capita)

What are the facts and challenges?

• About 30,000 t/yr of

municipal waste, or

410kg /person/yr

• We only recycle 29% of

our waste

• NSW target is 70% by

2021

• Despite a lot of efforts we generate a lot of waste that is currently being landfilled

What are the facts and challenges?

• Our landfill site has a remaining life of about 5 years

• There is no suitable land available to construct another landfill

What are the facts and challenges?

• Need to transport waste to other facilities for

treatment/disposal

• Need to optimise the transport to control costs

o Minimise amount of waste to be transported

o Maximise efficiency of transport

• Maitland is too small to implement many

solutions on its own

We need a waste management strategy

• Set a vision for the future and guidance on a

strategic direction

• Allows Council to respond to these challenges in

a systematic way

• Address all waste management issues

Waste avoidance

Recycling, resource recovery and waste diversion

Illegal dumping and littering

• Provides a tool to communicate with the

community

Important considerations

• NSW government perspective o Draft Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery

Strategy 70% reduction of domestic waste

• Regional perspective o Regional Waste Strategy

Vision: To Proactively develop and implement an evolutionary

and sustainable waste management system for the Hunter

Region, enabling the whole community to improve the

environment and community well-being by: reducing the

environmental impact of waste and using resources more efficiently

Important Considerations

Maitland’s Perspective

• Need to transport waste and recyclable to other

facilities

• Need to improve resource recovery rate

• Need to enter into Partnerships with other

councils o Collection services

o Waste disposal / processing

Get to know you/warm up exercise

Let’s explore our values

• Discuss the values you think should be considered in the strategy and why … examples

• When I buy tinned tomatoes, I value ‘Australian made’

• When I choose somewhere to live, I value the feel of the neighbourhood

• When I do my groceries, I value price

• When I picked a pet, I didn’t get a cat, because I value biodiversity

• I wear jumpers and ugg boots rather than turn on heating as I value the environment

• I pay my bills on-line, because I value my time.

Let’s contribute to a vision

Let’s develop some goals

• The waste we generate through

our purchasing decisions

• The waste we send to landfill

• The waste we recycle

• The waste that is organic

(garden/food)

Let’s develop some goals

• The waste that is illegally dumped

• The waste that is littered

• The waste that is generated by Council or from Council sites

• The waste that is a ‘problem’

(e.g. batteries etc.)

Let’s be smart about them!

• Specific

• Measurable

• Achievable

• Relevant

• Timely

It’s now 2035

As a community we have/we are…

I know we have this/are this because….

Let’s check them out

• Take voting stickers

• You have ‘votes’

• Moving around the room, place stickers on the

goals you see as priorities

• You can use all on one, or spread them around

Next steps

• A draft waste management strategy will be

developed and presented to Council

• The draft strategy will then be released for broad

community input, expected in September

• Sign up at maitlandyoursay.com.au to contribute

to the next stage

• Following consultation, strategy adopted by

Council

• Service changes then implemented 2015

Thank you for joining us today to talk less waste.

You have made an active contribution to the way Maitland’s

waste will be managed into the future.

Remember www.maitlandyoursay.com.au

See you again soon.