Transcript Sustainable On Farm Waste Management

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
• 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