Town Planning Report - Other Change Composting Facility · 132005.638.06

“Specialist services and practical solutions”



       vegetation and provision for an environmental offset in the form of an Agreed Offset Delivery
       Plan (ODP) in accordance with the Environmental Offsets Act 2014.
       The applicant has secured land at Lake Flat Road (Lot 4 on RP803972) to provide for the Keysii
       Nature Reserve, which is to be rehabilitated in Offset Area Rehabilitation Plan. This forms part
       of the current “minor change” application (132005.638.05) yet to be finalised.

       This “other change” application makes further changes to the development approval to
       provide for another stage of development under the Master Plan for the proposed composting
       facility (refer Figure 2).


       6        Development Proposal

       6.1      Composting Facility

       The project involves establishing an aerated in-vessel composting facility at the NRRC. A copy
       of the proposal plans, and a copy of the Process Design Strategy are provided as Attachments
       3A & 3B.

       The applicant is also seeking to update the staging for the various components of the
       development in accordance with the new Layout Plans for Stages 1 – 3 (refer Attachment 4),
       as follows:
           • Layout Plan Stage 1 – The completion and operation of the new HES Basin and upgrade
               the RRA Pade area;
           • Layout Plan Stage 2 – The construction of the proposed Composting Facility including
               the upgrading of the internal roadways and new weighbridge with new gravel
               hardstand area; and
           • Stage 3 – The construction of the Waste Transfer Station, “Reviva Shop” and expansion
               of the Cleanaway Depot.

       Existing green waste currently received and mulched on-site will instead be processed into
       compost, representing a shift in current processing method. While the proposal will enable
       increased intake capacity over time, the controlled composting process (including natural
       breakdown and moisture loss) means that final compost outputs will be broadly comparable
       to current mulch production volumes.

       Importantly, the waste being proposed through the composting facility is the same waste
       material that currently being accepted and managed at the NRRC. That is, the composting
       facility will provide for another level of processing, which is consistent with the existing utility
       installation use. This includes the receival, treatment and or processing of organic green and
       food waste products; however, not all food waste will be composted.

       It is noted that while food waste is received at the NRRC it is not currently processed onsite. It
       is now proposed to also process some low odour food waste products with the composting
       facility, therefore adding and increasing the type of organic waste material being processed at
       the NRRC.




       23026 – Noosa Resource Recovery Centre (NRRC) – Composting Facility                 Page 12