Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy 2025-2035

Project: The Eurobodalla Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy 2025-2035 will identify key objectives for waste management and minimisation in Eurobodalla and develop a plan to implement actions.

Timeframe: March 2024 to March 2025

Status: In progress

Cost and funding: $90,000

Page last updated: December 2024

Project details

The new strategy will set a clear vision for waste and resource recovery in Eurobodalla.

We are working to:

  • reduce waste: avoid, reduce, and increase recycling
  • recover resources with an emphasis on reuse and circular economy by encouraging community ownership of waste
  • work towards meeting government targets and finding local and regional solutions to protect and enhance the environment
  • collaborate and engage with the community, including, but not exclusive to Aboriginal, youth, industry, and environmental groups.

In our strategy, we will also consider:

  • strategic planning for future waste and resource recovery infrastructure needs
  • procurement actions to support a circular economy
  • climate change adaptation and resilience, including disaster planning, emissions reduction, and low carbon economies
  • managing plastic waste and pollution
  • managing litter and illegal dumping
  • waste education
  • excellence in service provision.

Benefits to the community:

  • deliver reliable, consistent waste services for the community
  • educate the community on waste and resource management
  • improve waste management practices to deliver a more efficient service to the community
  • ensure that we can provide sufficient waste management resources to service Eurobodalla's future population.

Background

The Eurobodalla 10-year Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy aims to secure the best possible resource recovery and waste management solutions for our community and the environment, now and in the future.

Our vision is to:

  • facilitate sustainable waste services
  • support our community to own the waste they generate using avoidance, reuse and recycling practices
  • embrace local solutions to help the circular economy and protect our beautiful environment.

We will achieve this by:

  • engaging with our community
  • encouraging a waste-wise community
  • collaborating on local waste recovery initiatives
  • advocating for effective government legislation.

Community engagement

We will:

  • develop a community engagement plan to connect with stakeholders including residents, relevant committees and groups, industry and business, community organisations, service providers and Council.
  • seek to understand community concerns, priorities, aspirations, focus areas, and future opportunities for waste and resource management for inclusion in the strategy.

We:

  • held two stakeholder meetings in June and July 2024 incorporating external and internal stakeholders
  • developed the structure of the strategy
  • designed surveys for the community to participate.

Feedback helped us produce a research brief and an outline for the strategy. It provided clarity on stakeholder opinions and views on Eurobodalla’s waste services.

Project updates

Here's a summary of activities that have taken place so far:

December 2024

  • Council completed the first draft of the waste strategy and we're providing feedback to APC Waste Consulting Pty Limited.

October - November 2024

  • Council received 98 survey responses from the community during the waste survey period from 13 September to 11 October 2024. We submitted the survey responses to A Prince Consulting for inclusion in the draft strategy document.

October 2024

  • The community feedback surveys closed on Friday 11 October. We're compiling the results and feedback.
  • Council will use the community feedback to finalise a waste strategy. We'll share the draft strategy for further community feedback by December 2024 before Council considers it for adoption.

September 2024

  • Council developed three community feedback surveys about waste and resource recovery, food waste, and construction and demolition waste. The surveys opened on Friday 13 September.
  • Council hosted a community information stall about the strategy at the Festival of Sustainable Choices.

August 2024

  • Council and APC Waste Consulting Pty Limited developed surveys on topics such as FOGO, and waste services within the community and businesses. Council will distribute the surveys during September.
  • Council finalised the stakeholder engagement plan.

June-July 2024

  • Council and APC Waste Consulting Pty Limited attended initial stakeholder meetings to develop strategic themes for the strategy.

March 2024

  • After a competitive tender process, Council contracted APC Waste Consulting Pty Limited to facilitate development of the Eurobodalla Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy 2025-2035.

More information

For more information, please contact Council's Divisional Manager, Waste Services: