South Australia's Waste Strategy 2005 - 2010
South Australia’s first State-wide waste strategy has been released. The strategy aims to ensure a healthy environment for South Australians now and into the future.
State and Local Government agencies, the waste management industry, business and the community have been involved in helping Zero Waste SA to develop the waste strategy and guide the way in which waste is managed in South Australia.
The strategy establishes waste reduction goals and targets for South Australia and sets out a range of strategies and steps to achieve these goals and targets.
The five year strategy is focused on five key objectives:
- Foster sustainable behaviour - simply providing information will not influence people to recycle or re-use material or resources in a sustainable way.
- Less waste - achieving substantially less waste going to landfill in South Australia means that materials must be redirected towards more beneficial uses.
- Effective systems - South Australia needs to establish, maintain and increase the capacity of recycling systems and re-processing infrastructure in metropolitan and regional areas.
- Effective policy instruments - economic, regulatory and other policy measures must be introduced to give the necessary traction in the market place to encourage avoidance, reduction re-use and recycling of waste.
- Successful cooperation - targets of this and future strategies will only be reached with the successful cooperation of a range of stakeholders.
Strategy targets
The strategy sets key material and recycling targets for each waste stream as follows:
Key material recovery and recycling targets |
Waste Stream |
By 2006 |
By 2008 |
By 2010 |
By 2014 |
Municipal Solid Waste |
At least 25% of all material presented at the kerbside is recycled
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50% of all material presented at the kerbside is recycled
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75% of all material presented at the kerbside is recycled (if food waste is included)
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Reduce waste to landfill by 25% (as required by South Australia’s Strategic Plan)
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Commercial and Industry |
5% increase in recovery and use of C&I materials
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15% increase in recovery and use of C&I materials
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30% increase in recovery and use of C&I materials
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Construction and demolition |
20% increase in recovery and use of C&D materials
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35% increase in recovery and use of C&D materials
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50% increase in recovery and use of C&D materials
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Further information is available from Ian Harvey, tel. (+61 8) 8204 1954, email: ianr.harvey@state.sa.gov.au.
Publications (please note that limited printed copies are available)
South Australia’s Waste Strategy 2005-2010  (PDF, 313Kb)
This document details targets and goals for each waste stream:
- Municipal Solid Waste
- Commercial and Industrial Waste
- Construction and Demolition Waste
Other strategies included address litter/illegal dumping, hazardous waste/liquid waste and waste transfer and landfill disposal and storage.
Summary - South Australia’s Waste Strategy 2005-2010 (PDF, 313Kb)
This document includes excerpts from the Waste Strategy document:
- Objectives of the waste strategy
- Waste Hierarchy
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Key targets for waste streams
- Implementing the strategy
Background Paper (PDF, 192 Kb)
This document provides information on why waste is a significant problem, what the current waste situation is in South Australia and provides other background information to South Australia’s Waste Strategy.
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