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James Turnell Assistant Executive Officer Ph : 6770 3847 Email: [email protected]. Introduction. NIRW Opportunities and constraints concerning waste management in regional local government areas NIRW’s EPA funded regional waste strategy - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
James TurnellAssistant Executive Officer
Ph: 6770 3847Email: [email protected]
Introduction• NIRW
• Opportunities and constraints concerning waste management in
regional local government areas
• NIRW’s EPA funded regional waste strategy
• Community engagement and participation in waste management
initiatives
Northern Inland Regional Waste
(NIRW)
NIRW was formed in July 1998 and meets quarterly to discuss
waste management issues and to organise regional initiatives.
NIRW’s membership consists of thirteen (13) Local Government
Councils in the North West and New England regions of NSW.
The NIRW region comprises a total population of over 183,000
and covers an area of 99,642 square kilometres.
NIRW members• Members are progressive, collaborative and passionate about
waste management
• Focused on resource recovery
• Provides a forum for speakers to update members on recent
advances:
• Regulation changes
• New technology and markets
• WHS
• Collective tenders (milk runs):
• Concrete & metals
• Mulch & compost
• Chemicals & used oil
Contractor shredding
NIRW’s resource recovery achievements
Opportunities
• Waste composition differences between urban and regional
areas
• Agricultural organic residues
• Markets for recovered materials
• Organics/carbon
• Land use
• Space required for resource recovery
• Planning constraints
• Odour
• Rural communities often more aware of the importance of
conserving resources
Constraints
• Sparsely populated
• Aggregation/ transport costs
• Distance to markets
• With exception of organics
• Communities ability and willingness to pay for greater resource
recovery
• Service levels
• Competing demands
• Regulation
• Environmental Protection Licenses & Waste Exemptions
Regional waste strategy
• Voluntary waste groups identified by the EPA to undertake
comprehensive regional waste strategies
• On behalf of their member councils
• EPA funded
• Focus on regional collaboration
• Economies of scale
• Regional & sub regional resource recovery nodes
(aggregation/ processing points)
Community engagement and participation
• Closing the loop
• Reducing contamination in source separated waste streams
• Organics (green bin)
• Recyclables (yellow bin/black crate)
• Source separation is key to satisfy end users (markets for
recovered materials)
• Feedback (+ve & -ve)
Green bin contamination
Note. 1 days worth of contamination manually picked out
Thank you
Contact details:
Michael Pearce (NIRW Chair)
E-mail: [email protected]
Mob: 0488 752 520
Ph: 6775 2520
Alison Leckie (Program Coordinator)
E-mail: [email protected]
Mob: 0428 219 410
Ph: 6767 5044
Jon Beckett (Manager Waste Services, Tamworth Regional Council and NIRW
Executive Officer)
E-mail: [email protected]
Mob: 0417 498 287
Ph: 6767 5040
James Turnell (Manager Waste & Drainage, Armidale Dumaresq Council and NIRW
Assistant Executive Officer)
E-mail: [email protected]
Mob: 0428 115 337
Ph: 6770 3847