2016-03-07 General Committee - Item 1 - Draft Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan - ATTACHMENT 1

6.2     Commercial Waste
General Waste

Commercial and industrial premises are provided with either:
   240 litre waste bins
   1100 litre low noise bins
   Bulk waste bins ranging in size from 1 cubic metre to 3 cubic metres
   Compactors ranging in size from 3 cubic metre to 23 cubic metres

Commercial waste bins are serviced anywhere from a weekly to daily.

Recycling

Commercial and industrial premises are provided
with either:
     240 litre recycling bins
     1,100 litre low noise recycling bins

Commercial recycling bins are collected fortnightly,
or where conveniently located (coastal area), a
weekly service can be provided. To encourage
segregation of recyclables occupiers are entitled to
an equivalent recycling volume to the waste
volume with no increase in waste charges.

                                                       Fig 9: Low Noise 1,100 litre Recycling Bin

In January 2011, Sunshine Coast Council commissioned EnviroCom to conduct a commercial
recycling assessment.

The Noosa commercial recycling assessment of Transpacific-Cleanaway’s 660L and 1100L rear lift
bins revealed:
     Contamination rate – 6.57%
     Process loss rate – 18.68% (materials which are recyclable but are unable to be recycled
        e.g. glass fines, material less than 25mm)

The predominant recyclable materials were recyclable paper (56.3%), corrugated cardboard
(33.3%), newspaper (9.6%) and magazines (7.5%).

Contaminants included glass fines (7.8%), bagged recycling (3.3%), bagged garbage (1.7%) and
organic other (1.9%).

Garden Waste

The garden waste service is primarily designed for domestic premises but 240 litre bins can be
supplied to commercial or industrial premises. There has been very little take-up of this service by
the commercial and industrial sector. This may be due to limited generation of garden waste or
because they have private garden maintenance services in place.




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