At the 28th May Council meeting I moved that Council join a collaborative procurement model with other Councils from the south east metropolitan Council group, for advanced waste processing solutions, facilitated by Metropolitan Waste Resource Recovery Group (MWRRG), to address the long term management of the municipality’s waste stream.
Yarra Ranges Council collects and disposes of approximately 30,000 tonnes of household waste from landfill bins within the municipality annually through a regional landfill disposal contract with the Metropolitan Waste Resource Recovery Group. This material is currently sent to the Suez Landfill in Hallam, which is projected to reach capacity in less than 10 years on current trends, at which time it will need to close.
The last landfill in the east of Melbourne is due to close down within the next 10 years.
As Hallam is the last landfill in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, future disposal options need to be investigated and considered now, given the timeframe to develop and shift to a new waste management model and to ensure continuity of service provision.
If Yarra Ranges Council was to exclude itself from this Alternative Waste Process proposal, Council would need to find an alternative solution to our waste disposal. This would put Council at risk of either not having a suitable location for processing or disposal of our waste or would put Council and the community in a position of incurring higher costs to transport waste further distances to another landfill.
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