1. Let’s talk less waste
Developing a 20 year waste strategy

2. Purpose of today
• Provide background to the current waste
situation
• Identify your values and drivers around waste
management
• Identify key goals you would like to see included
in our new 20 year waste management strategy
• Your opportunity to input into draft strategy, to
be released in upcoming months

3. How will be do this?
• Introductions
• Overview of waste management today
• Discussion on values and drivers
• Discussion on goals
• Priorities goals
• Wrap up and next steps

4. House rules
• Let’s agree on how we will work together today

5. Waste management today
• 30,000 households with a domestic waste service
• $394/household in 2014/15

6. Waste management today

7. What are we recycling?
Recycling Bin (yellow lid)
• 86% of paper and paper products are
recycled
• 73% of cardboard is recycled
• 86% of glass is recycled
• 76% of dominant plastics are recycled
• 44% of steel is recycled
• 65% of aluminium cans and foil are
recycled.

8. So what are we sending to landfill?
Garbage bins (red lid):
• 16% of paper products
• 60% of organic waste
• 4% of glass materials
• 9% of plastic products
• 3% of metals
• 2% of earth based products
• 4% of other waste products

9. How much are we recycling?
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
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5,000.00
10,000.00
15,000.00
20,000.00
25,000.00
30,000.00
35,000.00
40,000.00
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Waste diversion
Total recycled kerbside, rec at WMC and dom g/w Total domestic waste (bins, other domestic, ex rec WMC)
% diversion domestic waste (incl rec and dom g/w at WMC)

10. How much are we recycling per capita
0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
0.00
50.00
100.00
150.00
200.00
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Domestic bin diversion per capita (kg)
Domestic bin waste per capita Kerbside recycling per capita Diversion
Linear (Domestic bin waste per capita) Linear (Kerbside recycling per capita)

11. What are the facts and challenges?
• About 30,000 t/yr of
municipal waste, or
410kg /person/yr
• We only recycle 29% of
our waste
• NSW target is 70% by
2021
• Despite a lot of efforts we generate a lot of waste
that is currently being landfilled

12. What are the facts and challenges?
• Our landfill site has a remaining life of about 5
years
• There is no suitable land available to construct
another landfill

13. What are the facts and challenges?
• Need to transport waste to other facilities for
treatment/disposal
• Need to optimise the transport to control costs
o Minimise amount of waste to be transported
o Maximise efficiency of transport
• Maitland is too small to implement many
solutions on its own

14. We need a waste management strategy
• Set a vision for the future and guidance on a
strategic direction
• Allows Council to respond to these challenges in
a systematic way
• Address all waste management issues
 Waste avoidance
 Recycling, resource recovery and waste diversion
 Illegal dumping and littering
• Provides a tool to communicate with the
community

15. Important considerations
• NSW government perspective
o Draft Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery
Strategy
70% reduction of domestic waste
• Regional perspective
o Regional Waste Strategy
Vision: To Proactively develop and implement an evolutionary
and sustainable waste management system for the Hunter
Region, enabling the whole community to improve the
environment and community well-being by: reducing the
environmental impact of waste and using resources more efficiently

16. Important Considerations
Maitland’s Perspective
• Need to transport waste and recyclable to other
facilities
• Need to improve resource recovery rate
• Need to enter into Partnerships with other
councils
o Collection services
o Waste disposal / processing

17. Get to know you/warm up exercise

18. Let’s explore our values
• Discuss the values you think should be considered in
the strategy and why … examples
• When I buy tinned tomatoes, I value ‘Australian
made’
• When I choose somewhere to live, I value the feel of
the neighbourhood
• When I do my groceries, I value price
• When I picked a pet, I didn’t get a cat, because I value
biodiversity
• I wear jumpers and ugg boots rather than turn on
heating as I value the environment
• I pay my bills on-line, because I value my time.

19. Let’s contribute to a vision

20. Let’s develop some goals
• The waste we generate through
our purchasing decisions
• The waste we send to landfill
• The waste we recycle
• The waste that is organic
(garden/food)

21. Let’s develop some goals
• The waste that is illegally dumped
• The waste that is littered
• The waste that is generated by
Council or from Council sites
• The waste that is a ‘problem’
(e.g. batteries etc.)

22. Let’s be smart about them!
• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Relevant
• Timely
It’s now 2035
As a community we have/we are…
I know we have this/are this because….

23. Let’s check them out
• Take voting stickers
• You have ‘votes’
• Moving around the room, place stickers on the
goals you see as priorities
• You can use all on one, or spread them around

24. Next steps
• A draft waste management strategy will be
developed and presented to Council
• The draft strategy will then be released for broad
community input, expected in September
• Sign up at maitlandyoursay.com.au to contribute
to the next stage
• Following consultation, strategy adopted by
Council
• Service changes then implemented 2015

25. Thank you for joining us today to talk less waste.
You have made an active contribution to the way Maitland’s
waste will be managed into the future.
Remember www.maitlandyoursay.com.au
See you again soon.