2017-08-08 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

BRANCH ACTIVITIES              RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                             CURRENT PRIORITIES                              THE NEXT QUARTER
Waste Education                   Constructed a viewing platform at             Print    and    distribute   2017/18          Continue      the    schools’   waste
                                    the landfill for students to view the           recycling calendars.                            education program.
                                    operation of filling the landfill cells.      Manage the requests for exemption             Deliver approx. 9,000 garden waste
                                  Excursions to the landfill for school           from garden        waste collection             bins to premises within the three
                                    students undertaken by Education                service.                                        bi-collection service area.
                                    officer.                                      Development of an information and             Managing        the    requests   for
                                                                                    education program to prepare                    exemption from service.
                                                                                    residents for the new garden waste
                                                                                    recycling bin service.
Tip Top Shop                      The licence agreement between                 Develop tender documents (and a               Go out to tender for the provision of
                                    Council and Briteside to provide                licensing    agreement)    for    the           this service from October 2017.
                                    waste diversion services at the                 provision    of    waste    diversion         Extend the Briteside agreement on a
                                    Eumundi Road Resource Recovery                  services.                                       month by month basis until the
                                    Centre will expire at the end of                                                                tenders are processed and a new
                                    August 2017.                                                                                    license is endorsed.
Bulk Kerbside Collection.         Finalised the bulk waste kerbside             Review the outcomes of the                    Propose to Council that the next
                                    collection service between 24 April             completed service and revise any                service be conducted around August
                                    and June 2017 using three different             improvements     that  can    be                to September 2018.
                                    vehicles to collect different waste             undertaken.
                                    streams.

Business as usual activities      Recycling of polystyrene has been             Complete        the      project      to      Commence        drafting   a   Litter
                                    highly effective with significant               comprehensively electronically map              Management Plan.
                                    volumes collected. This is then                 and record all public place bins.             Expand the waste collection services
                                    recycled under an agreement with              Review the sedimentation system at              with 360 litre waste and recycling
                                    Rockcote in Yandina who receive                 the landfill due to its failures in the         bins and bulk recycling bins.
                                    polystyrene and use the material for            recent heavy wet weather following
                                    making light weight concrete.                   the tropical cyclone/rain depression
                                    Unfortunately the amount provided               in Queensland.
                                    by Council has exceeded their                 Review the need for a Local Law for
                                    requirements.                                   Waste to replace section 7A of the
                                  Electronic mapping of public place              Waste Reduction and Recycling
                                    bins completed in the coastal areas             Regulations.
                                    and some rural areas.                         Development       of    the    2018/19
                                  Working with the contractor to                  operational budget
                                    implement      the    new     waste
                                    management contract, ordering of
                                    plant and signage.
                                  Prepared schedules of collection
                                    services to be provided under the
                                    next waste contract.

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