Transfer station changes
Keeping the focus on improved resource recovery.
Project overview
Upon the February 2021 Councillor resolution, opening hours at the Bermagui waste transfer station were immediately increased to seven-days-a-week. This is to accommodate extra demand that came from the Cobargo tip closure due to bushfire damage.
The resolution also mapped out the following changes to the shire’s waste transfer stations:
Eden and Bermagui: both these sites will be developed to improve onsite resource recovery, taking pressure off the shire’s landfill site at the Central Waste Facility. The Eden site will eventually join Bermagui in providing a seven-day-a-week service upon closure of smaller sites at Candelo and Wallagoot.
Merimbula: organics processing will be moved to a different location. General waste drop-off and resource recovery facilities will remain. The Merimbula site will eventually join Bermagui and Eden in providing a seven-day-a-week service upon closure of smaller sites at Candelo and Wallagoot.
Bemboka: this site will remain open for general waste drop-off resource recovery.
Cobargo: due to extensive damage during the Black Summer bushfires, this site will remain closed. Services will be replaced through expanding rural bin collections and expanding the Bermagui waste transfer station opening times to seven-days-a-week.
Candelo and Wallagoot: these smaller sites will eventually close, but not before larger sites in Merimbula and Eden become seven-day-a-week facilities.
Central Waste Facility: this will remain the shire’s main commercial access site. No public access.
Funding
The funding for this project will be provided by Bega Valley Shire Council. All rateable assessments in the Bega Valley Shire pay a Waste Management Charge to cover the cost of waste management services including: operation and maintenance of transfer stations and landfills, delivery of waste minimisation programs, and rehabilitation of legacy landfill sites.
Council’s Waste Strategy Recycling our Future focusses on various waste management strategies aimed at diverting waste from landfill through waste minimisation and resource recovery. In February 2021, Council made a commitment to achieving the initiatives of the strategy, by resolving to upgrade existing waste transfer stations and invest in resource recovery and waste processing infrastructure.
Aside from site upgrades, a 30-year financial model for waste services also identifies the cost for remediation of more than 20 legacy landfill sites, and an expansion of the existing kerbside collection service to rural landholdings. Increases to waste charges are a reflection of our community’s ambition to provide a sustainable future for waste services.
Connection to Council's Community Strategic Plan
This project is connected to numerous outcomes in Council’s Community Strategic Plan. These include: Sustainable long-term service delivery, innovative approach to waste management, minimise waste to landfill, increase recycling and resource recovery, environmental protection, minimise public place litter.
Contact:
Joley Vidau
Waste Strategy Coordinator
Bega Valley Shire Council
Email: waste@begavalley.nsw.gov.au
Timeline of works
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