2016-06-07 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                           7 JUNE 2016


4                        WASTE REDUCTION & RECYCLING PLAN 2016-2024
DOCUMENT INFORM AT ION




Author                           Acting Manager Waste & Environmental Health, Ian Florence
                                 Community Services Department

Index                            ECM/Subject/Waste – Management Strategy and Policy

Attachments                      1.   Draft Noosa Council Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan
                                      2016 – 2024 (30 pages – supplied separately to this agenda – 2 hard copies available
                                      in the Councillors’ room)
                                 2.   Submissions and Responses to Noosa Council Waste Reduction
                                      and Recycling Plan 2016 - 2024


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The draft Noosa Council Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan 2016 – 2024 (the Plan) has now
been through its mandatory public consultation phase. Submissions have been reviewed and
some amendments made to the Plan as a result. The Plan is now presented to Council for
endorsement.

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Acting Manager of Waste and Environmental Health to the
Services & Organisation Committee Meeting dated 7 June 2016 and approve the Noosa Council
Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan 2016 – 2024 provided at Attachment 1 to the Report.


REPORT
Every local government is required to develop a Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan to comply
with State Government requirements under the Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011. In
March 2016 the Waste Section drafted the Noosa Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan 2016 –
2024 to comply with these requirements.

The 27 page document outlines Noosa Council’s strategy for waste management over the next
eight years. It includes Noosa’s first Community Jury’s recommendations for reducing organic
waste sent to landfill. These recommendations – including a future mandatory green waste bin
service – are an important part of our long-term “Towards Zero Waste” strategy.

The first draft was referred to the General Committee on 7 March 2016 for review and approval
for mandatory public consultation purposes granted by Council on 10 March.

The Plan went out for public consultation from 29 March to 3 May 2016. It was publicly
advertised in local media and made available on Your Say Noosa. Copies were also available at
Council facilities. Council staff and Councillors were available to discuss the Plan with the
community at Noosaville Library on 12 & 19 April and Cooroy Library on 15 & 22 April.

36 submissions were received; these included written and verbal submissions at community
sessions. Noosa Community Biosphere Association submitted a comprehensive 19 page
submission that took into account their own survey of local residents and businesses. Key issues
brought up by The Biosphere Association included: general support for the Plan; improvements
in public place recycling; community education/engagement to improve behaviour of residents
and industry; and ideas on how Council could facilitate improved rates of recycling.



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