2017-04-11 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   11 APRIL 2017




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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                  11 APRIL 2017

  COUNCIL POLICY - Garden Waste Recycling Service
  To ensure compliance with the CCA, Council has given an undertaking to the Australian Competition
  and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that it will exempt properties from its standard garden waste
  recycling service (upon request of the owner) where a commercial gardener or other service provider
  removes garden waste on behalf of the owner for a beneficial reuse and the garden waste is not
  discharged to landfill.
  5     POLICY STATEMENT

  Under this Policy Council will provide the following garden waste recycling services to the Noosa
  community.
  5.1   Defined garden waste service area
  The following minimum service level is provided within the ‘defined garden waste service area’.
  1x 240 litre red lidded general waste bin, 1 x 240 litre yellow lidded recycling bin and:
  Single domestic dwellings
  e   1x 240 litre lime lidded garden waste recycling bin collected fortnightly.
  Duplexes — for each duplex unit serviced separately
  e   1.x 240 litre lime lidded garden waste recycling bin collected fortnightly.
  Duplex with a shared waste collection service
  Shared service between 2 units
  e   1x 240 litre lime lidded garden waste recycling bin collected fortnightly.
  5.2   Optional garden waste recycling service
  An optional garden waste recycling service is available to:
  e   commercial, industrial and multi-unit developments within the ‘defined garden waste service
      area’, and
  e   any premises (domestic, commercial, industrial and multi-unit developments) within the ‘optional
      garden waste service area’.
  The owner of premises described above may apply for a garden waste recycling service to be
  provided to their premises. Occupiers who are not the owner require the owner’s permission.
  5.3   Invalid garden waste recycling service
  An invalid garden waste recycling service may be requested by an owner or occupier, in the area
  entitled to a garden waste recycling service where there is no person on the premises physically
  capable of presenting a bin on the footpath for service on collection day.
  5.4   Continuation of the existing garden waste services
  Where the owner has previously requested an optional garden waste recycling service and the
  premises is within the defined garden waste service area or the optional garden waste service area
  at 30 August 2017, the service will be continued from 1 September 2017.
  5.5   Increasing number of garden waste recycling bins or size of bins
  There is no limit to the number of garden waste recycling bins that can be requested by the owner
  of a premises, provided the owner agrees to pay the relevant cost for each garden waste recycling
  service provided.

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