Meeting papers

Waste solutions




                                                                                                                   Waste Plan 2023-2028
Solutions may mean households and/or businesses have to put in some extra effort



  Strongly agree: 38%   Agree: 46%    Unsure: 10%     Disagree: 5%       Strongly disagree: 1%

Ratepayers might have to pay more in short-term waste costs to invest in new technologies or processes



  Strongly agree: 17%   Agree: 37%   Unsure: 23%      Disagree: 15%      Strongly disagree: 8%

Solutions should produce sufficient revenue to reduce the costs to ratepayers



  Strongly agree: 29%   Agree: 43%    Unsure: 22.5%     Disagree: 4.5%      Strongly disagree: 1%


People need to take responsibility for the items they no longer want or need




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  Strongly agree: 46%   Agree: 39%    Unsure: 10%     Disagree: 4%       Strongly disagree: 1%




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Feedback on one thing Noosa Council could do to improve waste




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services (in order of importance). Top 10 comments included:

 1       Bin services (landfill, recycling & green waste) capacity & frequency comments
 2       Organic waste collection
 3        ffective recycling solutions e.g. recycling all types of materials and making recycling
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         convenient, accessible and transparent
 4       Empower waste education and behaviour change initiatives
 5       Annual bulk kerbside collection service
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   Waste facilities comments - Free/reduce fees, vouchers, increase fees, set-up & waste
   contract review
 7        ompost - Encourage home composting & worm farms, provide compost bins to households,
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         support community composting options.
 8       Implement innovative solutions for sustainable waste management
 9       I ncrease the number of public place landfill & recycling bins in parks, beach areas, and
          popular tourist destinations
 10      Advocate for plastic waste reduction practices and policies




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