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

10.      Consultation
10.1     Community Jury – The Future for Noosa’s Organic Waste
About the Community Jury

In early 2015, 24 jurors were selected from 3,000 residents on the electoral roll representing a
cross section of Noosa’s diverse community. The Jury met once a month over six months to reach
agreement and prepare a verdict on ways to minimise organic waste to landfill. The group toured
the Eumundi-Noosa road landfill, reviewed 30 submissions and heard presentations from
community representatives, industry spokespeople and experts in the field of waste management.




                Fig 14: Community Jury Members at the Eumundi-Noosa Rd Resource Recovery Facility

Community Jury Recommendations

The Jury unanimously agreed to urge Noosa Council to adopt nine recommendations to minimise
organic waste to landfill in Noosa, targeting 100% diversion of organic waste by 2030.

In August 2015, Noosa Council adopted the Community Jury's recommendations in principle,
pending the outcomes of a further workshop to discuss costs and the timing of implementation.

The outcome from the Councillor workshop was that all new dwellings in urban areas will be
provided and serviced with garden waste bins from 1 July 2016. The new waste contractor will
deliver bins to serviceable areas in September 2017 with the service commencing in October 2017.
The garden waste service will occur fortnightly on the opposite week to recycling.

Council has deferred making a decision on the rollout of a full organics waste collection service
(garden and food waste). Providing a full organics waste collection service will be reviewed in the
future and will consider issues such as the introduction of a waste levy for Queensland, levels of
food waste in bins and future financial viability. (A garden waste service will save approximately 3
years of landfill and a full organics waste collection service would save an additional 1 year of
landfill).

Table 7 below highlights how the community jury recommendations have been incorporated into
this Strategies Action Plan in Section 11.




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