Meeting papers

South-East Queensland Waste
Management Plan (CoMSEQ)
In 2021 the Council of Mayors of South East Queensland (CoMSEQ) finalised its
waste management plan. Noosa became a member of the CoMSEQ group in 2022
and has been actively involved in working collaboratively with the other member
Councils to review shared infrastructure to change the way waste is managed. The
CoMSEQ Waste Plan is underpinned by the following:

1. Developed as a collaborative approach to SEQ waste.
2. Endorsed by all Councils.
3. Backed by State with funding to support strategic implementation (i.e. not
   competitive).

The Plan focuses on three areas of actions towards 2030:

1. Optimising comingled recycling.
2. Removing organic waste from landfill and recovering it.
3. Optimising the treatment of residual municipal waste.

The objective of the Plan is to identify the set of levers, and the most appropriate
sequencing of those levers, that would best enable all SEQ Councils to:

1. Optimise the economics of waste management operations.
2. Encourage local economic development and job creation.
3. Meet or move towards State targets relating to household waste generation,
   recycling, and landfill diversion by 2050.
4. Maintain or achieve high levels of citizen satisfaction with waste 			
   management services.




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