Preferred Resource Recovery Practices by Local Councils – Best Bin Systems November 2011
The 2006 Preferred Resource Recovery Practices by Local Councils guide has been updated to reflect the need to increase the recovery of organics and dry recyclables to progress diversion towards the 2014 municipal waste target of 66%.
Higher resource recovery is generally delivered through a three bin collection system with separate bins for residual waste, dry recyclables and food/garden organics or collection systems where the residual waste is processed through an alternative waste treatment system.
The draft updated guide includes:
the resource recovery performance of various systems (new)
preferred bin-based recovery systems and standardised mobile bin colours
baseline and interim targets and performance outcomes.
Submissions
If you would like to comment on the updated document please send submissions by email to: improvedpractice@environment.nsw.gov.au or by mail to:
Waste Strategy
Office of Environment and Heritage
PO Box A290
Sydney South NSW 1232
by 5:00pm Friday 17 February 2012.
Downloads
Best Bin Systems ( 110933BestBinSys.pdf, 1.28Mb)
2006 Preferred Resource Recovery Practices by Local Councils (200669_gov_PrefResRecPractices.pdf, 496kb)
The guides are based on the findings of a number of studies, including:
Assessment of Domestic Waste and Recycling Systems Assessment of Garden Organics Collection Systems Assessment of (Domestic) Food Organics Management Co-collection of Domestic Food Waste and Garden Organics - the Australian Experience Benefits of Recycling Study Good Practice Performance Measures for kerbside recycling National Packaging Covenant
The Guidelines for Conducting Household Kerbside Residual Waste, Recycling and Garden Organics Audits in NSW Local Government Areas, have been developed to enable the collection of household data on waste and recycling quantities and characteristics within Local Government Areas in NSW. They outline key issues and methods for auditing household domestic residual, recycling and organic waste generation and the composition of a typical household bin at the kerbside. Good and reliable data is essential in making sound and informed decisions about the system performance, improvements and changes.
The Guidelines for Conducting Household Kerbside Residual Waste, Recycling and Garden Organics Audits in NSW Local Government Areas, have been developed to enable the collection of household data on waste and recycling quantities and characteristics within Local Government Areas in NSW. They outline key issues and methods for auditing household domestic residual, recycling and organic waste generation and the composition of a typical household bin at the kerbside. Good and reliable data is essential in making sound and informed decisions about the system performance, improvements and changes.
The effectiveness of the Guidelines has been continuously monitored and revised. As a result an Addendum has been prepared which contains details on minor modifications which have been made to improve the current Guidelines. A comprehensive and updated version of the Guidelines will be made available early 2011.
Download
Kerbside Audit Guidelines (0846KerbsideAuditsJune08.pdf, 794kb)
Kerbside Audit Guidelines Addendum (101053AddenKrbAud.pdf, 209kb)
Raw working data sheets are available for download for individual and multiple bins and MUDs
Individual Bin Audit Sheet (101055DSSingRev.xls, 145kb)
Multiple Bin Audit Sheet (110753DSMultBinRev.xls, 520kb)
Multi Unit Dwelling - Domestic Kerbside Audit Sheet (200846MUDDataSheets.xls, 43kb)
Good Practice Performance Measures for Kerbside Recycling Systems assists local councils with the delivery of more effective and efficient kerbside recycling systems.
The report details the results of research into establishing "good practice" performance measures for kerbside recycling systems.
The project was a jointly funded NSW Government and Industry initiative under the National Packaging Covenant
Good Practice Performance Measures for Kerbside Recycling Systems - Summary (2005147_GOV_KerbRecyPerf.pdf 183kb).
Good Practice Performance Measures for Kerbside Recycling Systems - Full report (GetMoreRecSys.pdf; 736kb).
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Reducing Contamination of Dry Recyclables and Garden Organics at the Kerbside, looks at the implementation and strategies of NSW councils as well as several local councils and contractors around Australia, to reduce contamination of recyclables and organics in domestic resource recovery for kerbside recycling systems.
Existing strategies fall into the following four categories:
system enhancements;
education;
- enforcement; and
- rewards
These strategies are evidence based to demonstrate what councils have found do and do not work.
Reducing Contamination of Dry Recyclables and Garden Organics at the Kerbside (2007211KerbsideDryRecy.pdf, 1145kb)
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More information
Contact: Sustainability Programs Division.
Note:
This page includes materials published by the former Resource NSW. Enquiries regarding Resource NSW, its programs or publications should be directed to the Sustainability Programs Division.
