The Environment and Liveability Strategy 2017 sets a target for council to be a zero-net emissions (ZNE) organisation and for the community to be low carbon by 2041.

Council’s landfill sites contribute significantly to our tier 1 emissions and based on feedback, it is evident that we need to adopt sustainable waste management practices.

Proposed Change

To strengthen our strategic approach to waste management, the refreshed strategy proposes to incorporate new “waste management” policy positions under the “Energy and Resources” theme:

10.2 Waste Management adopts leading global best practices to maximise resource recovery, reduce waste and deliver low emission and circular economy outcomes:

a. New models, infrastructure and partnerships maximise resource recovery to support and grow a circular economy and emerging and complementary industries.

b. Innovative waste management solutions, processes and technologies are investigated, and adopted where feasible to support waste and emissions reduction and energy generation optimisation.

c. Regional waste management solutions are identified and delivered through government and industry partnerships and collaboration.

d. Waste management assets, operational and procurement activities are designed, managed and delivered to minimise climate risks and avoid service disruptions.

e. Community and business collaboration through waste education, behaviour change and action support waste reduction.

Incorporating these new policy positions into this theme will also require some adjustment to the existing policy positions of the “Energy and Resources” theme to better integrate to these strategic directions and remove any duplication.

It is also proposed to incorporate a new Transformational Action “Lets get Waste sorted” with associated tasks to support implementation.