Attachment 5 - Traffic Impact Assessment Final PTT · 132005.638.06

Area           Issue or consideration                                                   Mitigation through layout                                   Mitigation through management
Public         ◼   Only 2 of 3 bays operational at a time due to skips filling and      ◼   Combine bulk transfer and transfer station bays         ◼    Provide tyre collection skips at transfer
transfer           becoming unavailable – relies on WMC operator and plant                  into a singular area                                         station bays for the collection and
station area       availability to get the skips replaced to empty.                     ◼   Placement of bulk waste into skips (timber, steel,           movement of tyres
- general      ◼   Significant amount of recoverable waste is entering landfill             concrete, mixed building) eliminated for bulk           ◼    Operators present to oversee and support
                   stream at transfer bays and also at bulk transfer pad due to             deposits.                                                    recovery operation at transfer station bays
                   lack of public sorting. No secondary sorting of stream.              ◼   Provide tipping floor and operator sorting area              and reduce sorting effort after drop-off
               ◼   Deposit locations for waste on both sides of the roadway result          for bulk waste to reduce manual handling risk           ◼    Provide timber bins at bays for ease of
                   in necessary road crossing by pedestrians without crossings              where public are self-loading skip bins with                 access rather than timber bins as an
               ◼   Public have difficulty manoeuvring trailers, insufficient space,         heavy items.                                                 isolated area, reduce vehicle movements
                   poor geometry of bays                                                ◼   Provide some additional space (wider than               ◼    Removal of a direct to landfill stream
               ◼   Internal vehicles collect and change skips during operation,             lanes) for manoeuvring trailers where space             ◼    Provide recovery skips at transfer station
                   interaction, and safety risk with public. Crossings not provided.        permits. Angle bays for ease of manoeuvrability              bays to capture all free of charge waste
               ◼   There is a section of the transfer bays area used as lunchroom       ◼   Limit WMC and operator removal of waste from                 items and divert from landfill. These items
                   unofficially, unnecessary space and hygiene risk.                        transfer bay area by implementing walking floor              are more difficult to sort and susceptible to
                                                                                            to mechanically move waste to sorting area.                  damage resulting in landfilling. Examples
               ◼   Signage is limited and not clear regarding areas and                                                                                  include e-waste, Reviva items, cardboard.
                   progression                                                          ◼   Provide bulk tipping floor for larger vehicles to
                                                                                            alleviate difficulty in manoeuvring, safety             ◼    Implement clear and consistent signage
               ◼   Separation of bulk transfer and transfer bays increases                  interaction large vehicles and public, and                   with colours and demarcation of areas
                   difficulty of secondary sorting, oversight and management,               different loading and unloading mechanisms.             ◼    Collection of full skips from interim storage
               ◼   Flooding of the lower level during adverse weather conditions        ◼   Arrange and size bays according to type of                   area during non-peak periods or outside of
               ◼   There is not space for multiple vehicles to pass through the             vehicle rather than waste type to reduce                     public use hours to reduce interaction.
                   lower level, interruptions to operations.                                interactions and movements required.
               ◼   There is not a mechanism for separated tyre collection.              ◼   Provide additional weighbridge for incoming
               ◼   Multiple stops are required for cardboard, waste, timber,                vehicles, outgoing vehicles and divert vehicles to
                   resulting in additional effort and time required, additional             alternate weighbridges where possible to
                   vehicle interactions, potentially contributing to lack of sorting.       mitigate queuing.
               ◼   Queuing of vehicles from the weighbridge into Eumundi-Noosa          ◼   Provide an area close to transfer bays for full
                   Rd                                                                       skips and empty replacement skips
               ◼   Interim storage area for full skips is not close to transfer area    ◼   Skips provided to be shared by 2 bays (either
                                                                                            side) to reduce interaction
Mattress       ◼   Mattress foam contained in shipping container at south western       ◼   Bulker bags are small and difficult to transport        ◼    Operational plans show separated public
Processing         corner of site                                                           and move, susceptible to moisture ingress,                   drop off in small waste items area,
and            ◼   Mattress foam is required to be kept dry, there is excessive             potentially there are more efficient options.                processing area, collection lane.
Polystyrene        effort and manual handling for operational teams to bale foam        ◼   Road crossing is required for polystyrene to load       ◼    Line marking and marked bays for
Processing         and roll heavy bales into shipping containers to achieve dry             the machine, safety vehicle interactions                     collection
                   storage.                                                             ◼   Provide covered and sealed storage for mattress         ◼    Separate operator collection of processed
               ◼   Processed polystyrene balls are required to be kept dry and              foam and processed polystyrene product                       polystyrene product and baled mattress
                   clean                                                                                                                                 foam from public transfer access.
               ◼   Interaction between operational vehicles collecting mattress
                   foam from shipping containers and public transfer bay users.

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