The

Waste, Recycling, and Litter Strategy 2018 -2028

was adopted by the Council

in 2018 as a roadmap towards achieving the community’s waste, recycling and litter

management aspirations. A key objective of this strategy is resource recovery and the

minimisation of waste going to landfill.

42%

(31,400 tonnes)

per year of waste is

being recycled

1000

plus street litter

bins provided across

Brimbank

110

litter infringement

notices issued

60%

of households

have the optional

Green Waste

Recycling Bin

6.6

million

household collections

per year for garbage/

recyclables/green

waste

Waste, Recycling,

and Litter Strategy

Scorecard 2019/2020

Vision and Objectives

Achieve reduced garbage and increased recycling for a 50% diversion rate.

Increased recycling diversion rate from 37% to 42%.

Reduced recycling contamination from 26% to 13%.

Household Collection Services

Increased the financial incentive to adopt a smaller garbage bin.

There is a saving of $89/year for households which downsize

from 140 litres to an 80 litre bin.

Negotiated medium term recyclables processing services agreement

(following the collapse of SKM Recycling (Victorian Recycling Industry Crisis).

Maintained ‘business as usual’ as far as practical for all residential kerbside

waste collection services during COVID-19 pandemic

Hard Waste Collections

Review cost/ benefit of implementing an ‘at call’ service as standard.

Introduced a new ‘at call’ hard waste collection service including improved on

line booking system on 1 July 2019.

Delivered around 22,500 services (no charge and charged) resulting in the collection

of approximately 4,000 tonnes of hard waste.

Achieved a recyclable component of up to 26% per month.

Recycling Centre and Other Opportunities Services

Expansion of the range of materials received at the Recycling/ ‘Detox’ Centre.

Expanded range of items accepted at Resource Recovery ‘Detox’ Centre to

include paper, cardboard and bicycles.

Established E-waste drop-off points for small items (batteries, globes,

mobile phones and accessories) at Council libraries.

Adopt ‘pop up’ recycling drop off service in other population centres.

Established combination of recycling hubs and ‘pop-up’ mobile recycling

trailers at Sunshine Leisure Centre, Deer Park Library, Sunshine West

Community Centre, Westvale 4Community Centre, St Albans Leisure Centre

and Balmoral Park to accept E-Waste, clothing, paper and cardboard.

Conducted ‘Detox Your Home’ initiative on Saturday 15 February resulting in

the collection of over 3 tonnes of hazardous unwanted household chemicals.

Conducted ‘pop-up’ drive-through recycling day on Saturday 30 November

at Victoria University in St Albans.

In 2019 /2020 Brimbank City Council delivered the following strategic goals:

Council Sites

Equip all Council sites with durable crockery and washing facilities.

Expanded the roll-out of durable crockery and washing facilities to other Council sites.

Installed industrial scale worm farm at the Brimbank Community and

Civic Centre to recycle organic waste on site.

Litter and Dumped Rubbish

Extension of enforcement activity focusing on illegal dumping hotspots.

Continued installation of fixed and mobile surveillance cameras and signage

at known dumped rubbish ‘hot spots’.

Completed bus stop litter bin audit.

Extended memorandum of understanding with Environment Protection

Authority (EPA) for ‘Officers for the Protection of the Local Environment’

initiative until 30 June 2020.

Advocacy

Advocate for tighter regulation of the waste management industry

including a push for increased penalties and clean up requirements for

commercial dumping.

Made submissions /contributions to the State Government regarding:

• Development of ‘Recycling Victoria – A new economy’.

• Recovering and Reprocessing Resources from Waste Study.

• EPA Act Review - increased penalties for commercial dumping

(participation in review panel).

Education and Awareness Programs

Maintain a well-planned diverse education and awareness effort with a strong focus on waste reduction and

low contamination of recycling.

Developed virtual online calendar of environment events.

Provided online gardening and home composting

workshops and webinars as well as online composting

and worm farm tutorials.

Delivered ‘home composting program’ to over 600

households in addition to face to face workshops, and

information stalls.

Delivered ‘Worm Farms for Schools’ program with six

schools now engaged in composting their organic waste.

Developed social media campaigns aimed at improving

kerbside recycling habits.

Promoted ‘Back to Earth’ initiative aimed at reducing

contamination in the green waste recycling stream.

Launched ‘Give a Bike’ bike donation initiative aimed at

providing bikes to local people in need.

Promoted ‘Recycling Right’ community engagement

and behaviour change campaign.

Supported Clean Up Australia Day on 1 March 2020.

Received Community E-waste Education Grant for

the establishment of drop-off points throughout the

community.

Delivered ‘Garage Sale Trail’ initiative, held on 19 &

20 October 2019. For its efforts the Council received

the 2019 Community Engagement Award (out of 140

councils Australia wide).

Developed ‘Business Sustainability Program’ (Currently

on-hold due to COVID-19 restrictions).

Promoted ‘Plastic Bag Ban’ initiative on social media.

Promoted ‘Plastic Free July’ initiative on social media and

ran a Plastic Free Living Workshop for the community.

A new economy

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