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                       Attachment 1 to Item 9
                       Services & Organisation Committee Meeting
                       7 March 2017
Noosa Council

Greenwaste Survey

Report

Prepared by:
Rolfe Perry and Associates Pty Ltd

6 December 2016

RP&A Ref: J386
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Table of Contents
       4  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY                                                               2
       2  INTRODUCTION                                                                    3
       3  DATA SUMMARY                                                                    5
             COLLECTION AND SORTING                                                        5
       4  COLLECTION DATA COLLATION                                                       7
             44    BIN WEIGHTS                                                             7
       5  SORT DATA COLLATION                                                             14
             5.1   GREEN WASTE CHARACTERISTICS                                            11
       6  FACTORS AFFECTING DATA ACQUISITION                                              13
             6.1    DATA ACQUISITION                                                      13
             6.2 | OTHER GENERAL ISSUES                                                   13
             6.3.   CONTAMINATION                                                         14
       7  CONCLUSIONS                                                                     14
       Appendices                                                                         16
          Appendix A                                                                     17
             Audited Streets                                                              17
          Appendix B                                                                     22
             Survey Areas                                                                 22
          Appendix C                                                                     27
              Images                                                                      27

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  Noosa Council
  Greenwaste Survey                                                 Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
  Report                                                                                J386
  6 December 2016                            Page i

Section 3

1      EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

A greenwaste survey trial has been undertaken in four (4) selected locations within
the Noosa Council local authority area. The purpose of the survey was to determine
the quantity of fruit and vegetable waste disposed of by householders in their
greenwaste bin.   Participating residents were notified by letter in advance of the
survey and asked to wrap fruit and vegetable waste in newspaper prior to placing the
waste in the bin.

Four urban residential type areas of about 250 households each were selected for
the trial. The four survey areas totalled 989 greenwaste bin householders of which
170 households were included in the greenwaste street audit. The street audit
targeted about 30 households within each survey area. The audit comprised of
collection and weighing all presented greenwaste bins, then sorting the greenwaste
collected into relevant categories.
On aggregate, for the four survey areas — Sunrise Beach, Tewantin Noosa, Heads
and Noosa Waters, fruit and vegetable waste comprised 4% of the total greenwaste
collected in the audit. The average greenwaste bin weight (net) was 14.5 kg for the
four survey areas. On this basis fruit and vegetable waste comprises about 600g per
average green waste bin.
Historic monthly greenwaste bin data indicate average bin weights for Noosa vary
from as little as 100g to 3.5kg month to month, depending on the season of the year,
rainfall, and holiday season. Changes in average bin weights over the subject
organic waste trial period therefore may be disguised by these other influences.
Ancillary observations were recorded during the trial such as excessive odour,
excessive bin weights (>70kg), and description of any contamination. Contamination
was found to be minor (about 0.5% by weight) but included soiled nappy, animal
faeces, fruitfly larvae and animal bones.
Excessive odour was noted on a number of occasions. At times the survey team was
approached by residents who offered the opinion that the two week disposal cycle for
fruit and vegetable waste too long, resulting in an unacceptable odour and/or is also
unhygienic. It was suggested by a resident that such matters would be satisfactorily
resolved if the collection service was weekly.
 None of the bins weighed were excessive in weight (>70kg).

 Noosa Council
 Greenwaste Survey                                          Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
 Report                                                                      J386
 6 December 2016                      Page 2

Section 4

2      INTRODUCTION

                  Rolfe Perry and Associates Pty Ltd (RP&A) were commissioned by Noosa Council to
                  undertake a greenwaste survey in four (4) selected locations within the Noosa
                  Council local authority area.   The purpose of the survey was to determine the
                  quantity of fruit and vegetable waste disposed of by householders in their greenwaste
                  bin.  Residents were notified by letter in advance of the survey and asked to wrap
                  any fruit and vegetable waste in newspaper prior to placing the waste in the bin.
                  The survey was completed over four days between the 21°' October and 3"
                  November 2016.

                  The four areas selected      for the survey each     contained  approximately 250
                  householders that are serviced with both general waste and greenwaste bins. The
                  survey areas comprised of
                  Sunrise Beach (276 householders);
                  Tewantin (249);
                  Noosa Heads (236); and
                  Noosa Waters (228)
                  The survey areas are shown in Figure 2.1.
|                 Bin collection data specific to these survey areas was recorded by waste contractor
                  Cleanaway.     A bin audit comprising approximately 30 householders, was also
                  conducted within a select few streets of each survey area. Plans showing the
                  selected audit streets are contained in Appendix A of this report. Detail plans of the
                  four survey areas are contained in Appendix B. Select photographs of greenwaste
                   bin contents are contained in Appendix C of this report.
                  The audit consisted of weighing the bins presented on collection day, retrieving the
                  waste contained in the greenwaste bin and sorting the waste into relevant categories
                  and weighed.
                   Four data summary reports were issued to Noosa Council after each area survey
                  audit to provide timely feedback.

                   Noosa Council
                   Greenwaste Survey                                           Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
                   Report                                                                        J386
                   6 December 2016                       Page 3

Section 5

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Noosa Council
 Greenwaste Survey                                                                                              Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
Report                                                                                                                           J386
 6 December 2016                                                 Page 4

Section 6

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3       DATA SUMMARY
COLLECTION AND SORTING
As the take up of greenwaste bins is optional, the street addresses of houses with
greenwaste bins was determined from a Council database prior to undertaking the
survey.   A map showing property boundaries and street numbers for houses with
greenwaste bins is shown in Appendix A.
All greenwaste bins that were presented on the day of the survey in the audit streets
were weighed and then emptied into a trailer. A note was made if a bin was not
 presented. The general waste bins from the same addresses were also weighed if
 presented.
 The collected greenwaste was transported to the Noosaville Landfill where it was
 sorted into relevant categories and weighed.
 The waste was sorted into the following categories:
           1. Contamination
           2. Palm fronds
           3. Leaves
           4. Prunings
           5. Grass
           6. Fruit and vegetable waste
           7. Root Balls
 The weight of the material in each category was recorded (rounded to the nearest
 kilogram).
 Root balls were encountered only in the Sunrise Beach audit, comprising 2% of the
 greenwaste sorted. Whilst this has been recorded in the raw data, the category has
 been eliminated from aggregate projections (by adding it to the prunings category) for
 simplicity and graphical clarity.
 A summary of the raw and statistical data derived from the collection and sort phase
 for each survey area is presented in Table 3.1. Weights have been rounded to the
 nearest kilogram.
 Note: All weights reported herein are net.

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  Noosa Council
 Greenwaste Survey                                            Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
  Report                                                                       J386
 6 December 2016                        Page 5

Section 7

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 Noosa Council
 Greenwaste Survey                                                           Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
 Report                                                                                 J386
 6 December 2016                             Page 6

Section 8

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   4      COLLECTION DATA COLLATION
   41     BIN WEIGHTS
   A frequency histogram showing the distribution of greenwaste bin weights based on
   a category width of 2 kg is shown below in Figure 4.1.
   Figure 4.1 Distribution of bin weights

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    The heaviest green waste bin was 54kg, the lightest 2kg giving a range of 52kg.
   Average bin weights for the street audits ranged from 12.2kg to 14.2kg. This
    compares to average bin weights of 12.6 to 16.8kg for bins collected by Cleanaway
    from the four subject survey areas (Figure 4.2).
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              Green Waste Bin Survey/Audit - average bin weights
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    Noosa Council
    Greenwaste Survey                                             Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
   Report                                                                            J386
    6 December 2016                         Page 7

Section 9

Figure 4.3 Average greenwaste bin weights - Comparison to non survey areas
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       participating in the organic waste survey with the average weight of those bins that
       were excluded from the survey. Note: Additional Survey Area bin collection data has
       been included in the above figure. The data is additional to the four audit/survey days
       and comprises data for Tewantin - 18'" October; Noosa Heads data - 20" October
       and Noosa Waters - 25" October. On these dates the Survey Areas were serviced by
       Cleanaway, no street audit undertaken.
       Figure 4.4 Bin Presentation Rates

       |        Green Waste Bin Survey/Audit - Bin Presentation Rates            |
       |     100.0                           ——-                                 |
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       |      0.0                                                                |
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       Bin presentation rates were generally lower for the street audits than for the area
       surveys. It was noted that some bins were being presented after the street audit crew
       had finished field operations which would bias the audit presentation rates lower.

       Noosa Council
       Greenwaste Survey                                             Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
       Report                                                                           J386
       6 December 2016                         Page 8

Section 10

Noosa Waters Survey Area returned bin presentation rates of 97% for 8" November
                  and 107% for the 25" October. The bins are collected from this area over two days
                  (Tuesday and Thursday). These results appear high and have subsequently been
                  omitted from Figure4.4 above.
                  Figure 4.5 Historical monthly bin average / survey trial area bin average

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                  Figure 4.5 and Figure 4.6 both indicate the aggregate survey trial bin average to be
                  lower than the historic monthly averages. Figure 4.6 also indicates rainfall over the
                  survey period and for the historic data supplied. In general weather conditions have
                  been dry since the end of June.

                  Noosa Council
                  Greenwaste Survey                                            Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
                  Report                                                                         J386
                  6 December 2016                        Page 9

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Section 11

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Section 12

+)      SORT DATA COLLATION
 5.1    GREEN WASTE CHARACTERISTICS
 The collected greenwaste was sorted into relevant categories and weighed. The
 categories included:
           1. Contamination
           2.  Palm fronds
           3.  Leaves
           4.  Prunings
           5.  Grass
           6.  Fruit and vegetable waste
           7.  Root Balls
 The distribution of the greenwaste over the first six major categories is shown in the
 following pie graph figures (the root balls category has been omitted for clarity).
 Figure 5.1- Greenwaste Categories

               Aggregate (all 4 survey areas)
                            1%

                                                          ™@ Contamination
                                                          @ Palm Fronds
                                                          m@ Leaves
                                                          @ Prunings
                                                          ™ Grass Clippings
                                                          m Fruit & Veg

 The overall distribution of greenwaste collected from the organic waste survey is
 shown in Figure 5.1 above. The characteristics of the greenwaste for the four
 different survey areas is contained in Figure 5.2.
 On aggregate, for the four survey areas — Sunrise Beach, Tewantin Noosa, Heads                 .
 and Noosa Waters fruit and vegetable scrapes comprised 4% of the total greenwaste
 collected. It ranged from 3% to 5% for the four different areas. Higher percentages
 were found to be associated with areas that wrapped the product in newspaper.

 Noosa Council
 Greenwaste Survey                                            Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
 Report                                                                          J386
 6 December 2016                        Page 11

Section 13

Sunrise Beach                                    |                              Tewantin                                     |
                    3%      1%                                              |                         3%
                                                                            |
                                                           mContamination   |                                                          ™ Contamination
                                                           @ Palm Fronds                                                               m Palm Fronds
                                                           leaves                                                                      @ Leaves
                                                           @ Prunings                                                                  @ Prunings
                                                             Grass Clippings                                                           m™ Grass Clippings
                                                           m Fruit & Veg                                                               m Fruit & Veg

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                           Noosa Waters                                     |                           Noosa Heads
                       3%_  1%                                              |

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|                                                          @ Leaves                                                                    @ Leaves
|                                                          m Prunings                                                                  m Prunings
|                                                          ™ Grass Clippings                                                           ® Grass Clippings
|                                                          m Fruit & Veg                                                               @ Fruit & Veg
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 Noosa Council
 Greenwaste Survey                                                                                                               Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
 CDi 2016                                                                  Page 12                                                                  —

Section 14

6      FACTORS AFFECTING DATA ACQUISITION
6.1    DATA ACQUISITION
The data acquired in this survey should be considered in light of the following factors.
          1. Weather conditions preceding and during the survey have been
             extremely dry. Thus grass clippings are probably underestimated and
             leaves are likely overestimated
          2. Fruit and vegetable waste collected in the survey was both wrapped
             and unwrapped in newspaper.
             Unwrapped fruit and vegetable weight data is likely to be more
             accurate then that acquired in areas where this waste was wrapped in
             newspaper.
6.2    OTHER GENERAL ISSUES
Excessive odour was noted on a number of occasions.      In most cases, the odour
arose from wet grass clippings although decaying vegetable matter also accounted
for some of the odour.
At times the survey team was approached by residents who offered the opinion that
the two week disposal cycle for fruit and vegetable waste too long, resulting in an
unacceptable odour and/or is also unhygienic. It was suggested by a resident that
these matters would be satisfactorily resolved if the collection service was weekly.
Another resident advised that virtually all of their food organics were used to feed
their worm farm and that they were therefore very unlikely to ever be disposing of this
material in their bin.
One particularly odorous bin was collected. While the quantity of fruit an vegetable
waste was small, the bin contained free liquid. Another bin contained fruit fly larvae
and animal bones.
AREA SPECIFIC:    Disposal of palm fronds are clearly an issue in areas like Noosa
Waters, as evidenced by the number of householders that placed palm fronds in both
the general waste and greenwaste bins.

 Noosa Council
 Greenwaste Survey                                          Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
Report                                                                        J386
 6 December 2016                      Page 13

Section 15

6.3    CONTAMINATION
Contamination comprised 0.5% of the greenwaste collected. Contamination generally
consisted of minor amounts of plastic and newspaper or recyclable material typically
cans, bottles and plastics. One soiled nappy was also encountered.
AREA SPECIFIC:    In sandy soil areas (Sunrise Beach), sand and leaves are either
raked or vacuumed, resulting in a considerable quantity of sand in the green waste
leaf category. Thus the leaf weight would be an overestimate here. Sand is not
organic and it will not contribute to the total mass of degradable material.

7      CONCLUSIONS

A greenwaste survey trial has been undertaken in four (4) selected locations within
the Noosa Council local authority area. The purpose of the survey was to determine
the quantity of fruit and vegetable waste disposed of by participating householders in
their greenwaste bin.
On aggregate, fruit and vegetable waste comprised 4% (by weight) of the total
greenwaste collected in the audit. The average greenwaste bin weight (net) was 14.5
kg for the four survey areas. On this basis fruit and vegetable waste comprises about
600g per average green waste bin.
Historic monthly greenwaste bin data indicate average bin weights vary up to 3.5kg
from month to month, depending on the season of the year, rainfall, and holiday
season. Any trends in average bin weights over the subject trial period may therefore
be disguised by these other influences.
Characterisation of the greenwaste stream may be skewed due to prolonged dry
weather conditions preceding and during the trial. Normal and wet weather conditions
are likely to produce variations to the reported distributions and average bin weights.
Ancillary observations were recorded during the trial such as excessive odour,
excessive bin weights (>70kg), and description of any contamination. Contamination
was found to be minor (about 0.5% by weight) but included soiled nappy, animal
faeces, fruitfly larvae and animal bones.
 Excessive odour was noted on a number of occasions, and a few householders
 provided feedback with their opinions on odour, hygiene and desired frequency of
service.

 Some issues were found to be area specific, such as sand comingled with the green
waste leaf category (Sunrise Beach) and palm fronds placed in both general and
 greenwaste bins (Noosa Waters).

 Noosa Council
 Greenwaste Survey                                          Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
 Report                                                                       J386
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Section 16

None of the bins weighed were excessive in weight (>70kg).

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for and on behalf of Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty. Ltd.
aff
Jim'Perry G       Aust
Engineering Associate
Rolfe Perry & Associates Pty Ltd
ACN 090 163 269
14 Tallgrass Avenue, Tewantin Q4565
0417 498 945

Definitions:
Excessive Weight — is defined as a bin with a net weight exceeding 70kg.
Contamination — all materials not published by Council as suitable for placement in
the greenwaste bin. Note: not all contamination could be separated for weighing, an
example is the comingled sand in the leaf category (Sunrise Beach).

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Section 17

Appendices

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Section 18

Audited Streets

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Section 29

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Image 7 — Heaviest greenwaste bin collected contained soil

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