2016-12-12 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                              12 DECEMBER 2016


 A street litter bin cleaning program will be implemented with on board washing of bins into the
   waste collection vehicle, ensuring bins are washed immediately after service. Bins will be
   washed at a frequency nominated by Council dependent upon location and usage patterns.
 A GPS location will be identified for each street litter bin and bins bar coded. The contractor
   will swipe the bar code to certify the bin has been collected allowing development of KPI’s for
   servicing these bins, ensuring contractor performance and bin washing frequency.
 A single pass waste collection vehicle will be provided to service Hastings Street and other
   high use or congested areas. This vehicle is capable of collecting waste and recycling bins in
   2 separate compartments on the vehicle in one pass. This avoids using two separate vehicles
   with substantial improvement in reduced noise and traffic congestion and public safety.
 The contractor has agreed to accept a limited volume of non-putrescible food organics with
   the garden waste service if Council trials find this service can be implemented without
   nuisance from odour and fly breeding.
 Collection vehicles will be fitted with GPS location devices and linked to a web portal back at
   Council to facilitate communication about service levels, missed services, updating Council’s
   rating database with accurate bin servicing details.
 Trucks will be fitted with the latest on board computer systems to enable the driver to “at the
   press of a button” record a range of servicing issues that can be reported directly back to
   Council.
 Trucks livery will be painted in an approved attractive colour scheme to promote the Council
   and its waste and recycling aspirations.
 The Contractor has offered to pay $12,000 annually towards the cost of the current waste
   education officer without an increase in the tendered prices submitted. The current officer is
   engaged for 50% of their time – this offer would assist Council to increase the education
   component.

Portion B – Operation of Eumundi Road Landfill
 A larger landfill compactor will be employed on the landfill to increase compaction without
   significant additional cost. The requirement for the compaction of waste buried on the landfill
   has been increased from 850kg/m3 in the current contract to 900kg/m3 to improve the use of
   air space at the landfill and extend its useful life. Substantial penalties apply in the new
   contract for failure to achieve the required compaction rate.
 Option to use roll out covers at the end of each day to cover waste instead of covering the
   waste with soil. This will reduce the consumption of landfill space with soil, increase its useful
   life and enable the use of the soil for value adding to organic waste. This requires further
   research.
 Final Capping of completed areas of the landfill to best practice standards at the tendered
   rates with Council having the option of seeking external competing tenders for capping to
   ensure value for money in the contractor prices.

Portion C – Resource Recovery
 The contractor will revise the layout of the resource recovery facility where waste is sorted
   and segregated to improve the recycling operations.
 The sorting of waste (in addition to the current range of products sorted), may include hard
   and soft plastics such as plastic car bumper bars, pvc pipe, polystyrene and foam rubber from
   deconstructed mattresses.
 The contractor has offered a bailer to assist in the processing of products.
 The contractor will assist Council in marketing its segregated recyclable material using
   existing agreements at a national level.



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