2017-03-07 S&O Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 9 Green Waste Survey Report

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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