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20 FOGO’s place in NSW
30 Will reverse mining
change landfill?
32 Australia recycles street
sweeping waste
WIA calls for
better use of
landfill levy funds
Rain or shine, WMAA CEO Val Southam (second from left) has spent the last decade
pushing the interests of her members and has lived to tell the tale. More on page 28.
(L-R: Cr Jenny Hill, Val Southam and Mal Jones and Richard Yeates)
Inflating bids will be
common practice in ERF
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ENERGY and carbon analysts RepuTex
believes “bid-shading” – the practice of
inflating the price of emissions reductions
– will be widespread in the new Emissions
Reductions Fund, with some companies
potentially winning abatement contracts
despite bidding more than 15 times the
cost of reducing their emissions.
According to RepuTex, there will
be a large discrepancy between the
intended design of the ERF – to
purchase abatement “at least cost” –
and the way it will operate in practice.
“The Clean Energy Regulator has
advised companies that the best
strategy for success at an Emissions
Reduction auction is to bid the lowest
price at which it is worth your while
to undertake a project,” RepuTex
executive director Hugh Grossman said.
“However, analysis indicates that
companies are actively seeking to bid
the highest clearing price so that they
can generate greater returns. Business
typically sells at the highest price, not
the lowest.
“In some cases, companies may
inflate their bid-price by 15 times the
cost of creating emissions reductions
and potentially much higher.”
Up to 45 million Australian Carbon
Credit Units (ACCUs) will likely be
offered for sale to the regulator at the
first ERF auction and if abatement is
sold “at the lowest price”, the firm’s
analysis indicates it will cost about
$250 million to buy all emissions
reductions.
However, should companies inflate
their bids, the regulator will pay more
than $800 million for the same amount
of abatement.
The Clean Energy Regulator is
currently developing rules to limit the
amount it pays for emissions reductions,
and will not disclose a benchmark prior
to the first auction. But the lack of
market transparency may in fact work
against the regulator, RepuTex said.
“With only one bid per project over
a single round, with no information
as to other bids available, proponents
are provided with a clear incentive
to overstate their bid, rather than
be locked into a low price contract,”
Grossman said.
“So the opaque nature of the market
may actually see bid prices rise.”
The report comes ahead of the first
ERF auction on April 15.
THE Waste Industry Alliance (WIA) says
it has made Victoria’s new government
aware of the their concerns around
the more than $300 million in
unspent landfill levies in the state’s
Sustainability Fund.
Director of the Victorian branch
at Australian Industry Group, which
manages WIA, Tim Piper told Inside
Waste News he was hopeful the new
government would listen.
“With the new government, it is
possible that they will re-consider
what is being done with the levy
because the previous government was
only increasing it. But I daresay that
Treasury will be wanting to hold onto
as much of the funds as possible,”
Piper said.
The Age newspaper reported that
the Sustainability Fund had a closing
balance of more than $311 million last
year, up from $238 million in 2013
but said Environment Minister Lisa
had acknowledged the growing pool of
money and had made plans to review
the “efficiency of allocating funds”.
Piper said: “We’d like the government
to use some of that money in areas
such as education, finding markets
for recycled products and to help with
commercial ventures.
“We can only hope that the
government sees good reason to
provide funds back to business and not
use them as a buffer for the budget,”
he said.
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AFTER more than 13 years at the helm,
Waste Management Association of
Australia CEO Val Southam is stepping
down, explaining that “the time is
right for a change in leadership”.
Val has seen WMAA evolve through
the years from being run by a group
of industry volunteers with separate
and independent state branches, to a
national organisation with a central
office. Membership has also grown to
more than 2000 members from 900,
comprising individuals and companies.
“Val has made an enormous
contribution to the association since
she commenced as the inaugural CEO
in 2001,” WMAA national president
Miranda Ransome said.
Some of her contributions include
introducing baseline qualifications and
experience for WMAA directors; launching
the association’s flagship event, the
National Landfill Conference; and
developing a new constitution in 2013.
Val has also supported Inside Waste
magazine since it began 11 years ago as
a new publication for the industry.
Val takes a trip down memory lane on
page 28, recounting her experiences,
successes and regrets.
While she is excited about the
prospect of something new, Val says
she’ll continue to be part of the sector
in one way or the other.
On behalf of all of us here at Inside
Waste, we wish Val the very best in all
her future endeavours.
Also in this issue we look at the
state of FOGO in New South Wales,
questioning if there is indeed a
compelling case for councils to go
down this path.
In NSW, the government is supportive
of increasing organic diversion rates
and has backed that up with its Waste
Less Recycle More initiative.
However, there are challenges
standing in the way and misconceptions
needing to be cleared.
This month, Inside Waste also
looks at a range of new equipment
and technologies that have landed in
Australia, from mobile and stationary
wood grinders to a waste intelligence
platform claiming to change the way
waste strategy planning is done.
One interesting new player in this
space is Reverse Mining, which has
launched an IT tool promising to save
landfill operators upwards of $1.5
million annually by using a range of
technologies, including GPS systems,
unmanned aerial vehicles and 3-D
imagery to improve a cell’s internal
operating system. More on Reverse
Mining on page 30.
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Profile | Patrick Navin
Patrick Navin is the managing director of Iolar
Consultancy Services and Iolar Operational Services.
He has more than 20 years of experience in the waste
and resource management industry in local government
and private sectors, both in Australia and Europe.
What was your first job in the sector?
My first job in the industry was with Bathurst City Council as the solid waste
manager, responsible for kerbside collections and operation of the Bathurst landfill.
Favourite part of your job?
Currently it is the variety of work, locations, people and waste management and
resource recovery issues that need tackling.
What does a typical day at IOLAR look like?
There is no “typical day” at Iolar. One day I could be out at Chinchilla checking
on operations at the Chinchilla Waste and Recycling Centre, the next working
on reports for consultancy clients and then on a boat to Coochiemudlo Island to
check operations there. It is currently very varied and exciting.
What’s the strangest thing you’ve had to do?
While working in Ireland, three days before Christmas, I had to coordinate the
extinguishing of a landfill fire and it was so cold it was snowing!
How has waste management changed in your time in the sector?
Resource recovery has increased significantly, be it what can be put out for
recycling or how facilities have evolved to recover resources. More can be done
though.
What is the key driver of future change in this sector?
Change needs clear political will and policy drivers. But not over-regulation.
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NSW councils lose
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FOUR councils operating in and around
southwest Sydney have lost a challenge
in court over whether WSN Solutions
was entitled to refer to an expert
to determine extra compensation
following the decommissioning of the
company’s mixed waste facility at the
Macarthur Resource Recover Park.
The councils are parties to a 15-year
contract that began in 2006 under
which WSN would receive and process
waste materials including mixed solid
waste, recyclables, organics and nonputrescible waste.
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that had arisen was unforeseeable and
the change in site and technology had
resulted in a demonstrable material
increase in cost. Seeking extra
payments from the councils, said to
be more than $500,000, the company
then sought expert determination in
order to obtain compensation.
However, the councils, led by
Campbelltown City Council, pointed
to a clause in the contract and said
WSN had no entitlement to refer to
an expert. They said all parties had
to agree on engaging an independent
expert and if there was no such
agreement, the case could be litigated
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Consultations on Victoria
e-waste landfill ban begin
ONE of Labor’s election promises was to
ban e-waste to landfill in Victoria and
the Andrews government has begun
consultation to move forward with its
pledge.
“Victoria’s e-waste is rising, due
to rapid advances in technologies
and shorter life span of products,”
Environment Parliamentary Secretary
Anthony Carbines told The Age
newspaper.
“To tackle the growing waste stream
entering landfill, the Andrews Labor
government will boost recycling and
recovery of e-waste by imposing a
ban. This ban will support jobs in the
recycling industry and grow economic
opportunities throughout the state
as well as protecting environmental
health.”
According to the report, the
government’s policy focuses on
encouraging Victorians to take e-waste
to transfer stations and collection
points instead of dumping materials in
landfill. Recyclers will also play a bigger
role in recovering and dismantling
e-waste. However, no details or targets
have been set given consultations have
only just begun.
Infoactiv chief sustainability officer
John Gertsakis said the ban was a
worthy idea but it required careful
consideration.
“Prohibiting end-of-life electronics
from landfill would be particularly
effective if the collection and recycling
targets were sharply increased under
Australia’s national television and
computer recycling scheme,” he said.
Gerstakis also noted that e-waste
collection and recycling should
be done responsibly and to the
highest standards of environmental
performance and workplace safety,
adding that collaboration between
stakeholders was key.
“Ensuring that local councils do not
bear the cost and burden of a landfill
ban is critically important. To do
otherwise will only result in a justified
social backlash,” he added.
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NSW draft waste education strategy released
NSW EPA director waste and resource
recovery Steve Beaman.
The NSW EPA has released a draft
waste education strategy, developed
with assistance from the UTS Centre
for Sustainable Futures and a Local
Government
Education
Reference
Group.
It sets out the educational
opportunities and direction for
programs delivered under the Waste
Less Recycle More initiative and
includes a detailed action plan, which
links strategic directions with 56 waste
actions that will be delivered by WLRM
partners and stakeholders including
the EPA, local councils, community
groups, industry and other government
departments.
Actions include developing a
statewide kerbside recycling campaign,
supporting and showcasing small
business recycling and building online
information and reporting systems for
problem wastes, littering from vehicles
and illegal dumping.
“The successful transformation of
the way we manage waste and recycling
in NSW has to be a three-pronged
approach
including
investment,
enforcement and education,” EPA
director waste and resource recovery
Steve Beaman said.
“We’ve already begun the process of
investment and enhanced enforcement
with Australia’s largest ever waste
package – the $465.7 million Waste
Less Recycle More initiative – that has
been rolling out grants since 2013.
“As these activities and facilities
start to come online we need to put
in place practical education and
behaviour change programs because our
investment in new waste infrastructure
will only be as successful as the people
using it.
“The draft strategy is based on
current best practice and will ensure
that waste education and behaviour
change activities are effectively
integrated under the WLRM initiative
across NSW.”
The strategy – Changing Behaviour
Together: NSW WLRM Education
Strategy 2015-17 – is open for public
comment till May 29.
SA EPA files criminal charges against Shahin family
The SA EPA has filed criminal charges
in the Environment Resources and
Development Court against four
members of the Shahin family, one of
the state’s richest families, and two
of their companies for creating and
operating an unauthorised waste site.
The Advertiser newspaper cited court
documents in which, the EPA alleged
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that Khalil Shahin and Nasmin Pty
Ltd “undertook a proscribed activity”
by operating a waste depot without
licence or authorisation at Mount
Compass, 50km south of Adelaide,
between January 2 and 13, 2012.
According to the newspaper, the
document also alleged that Shahin
Enterprises Pty Ltd “aided, abetted,
counselled or procured” Khalil Shahin
and Nasmin Pty Ltd to operate the
depot.
The EPA claimed that at the time,
Salwa, Samer and Yasser Shahin were
officers of Shain Enterprises. However,
the court’s file on the case provided
no details on the type or volume of
materials allegedly dumped at the site.
The Shahin family owns a number of
retail businesses under parent company
Peregrine Corporation, including Krispy
Kreme and On the Run petrol stations.
The latter has a network of more than
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are not charged with any offences.
The court case has been adjourned
until April.
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Calls for NSW EPA head’s powers to be cut
Buffier’s “duel hat” role questioned.
A PARLIAMENTARY inquiry has called
for New South Wales Environmental
Protection Agency chief executive’s
powers to be curtailed.
In June, NSW opposition leader Luke
Foley moved for the inquiry into the
performance of the EPA to be set up,
following claims of mismanagement,
botched prosecutions and cover-ups.
As part of the inquiry, the EPA’s
management of six cases came under
scrutiny: land contamination in Botany
and Hillsdale; dust pollution in the
Hunter; regulation of cruise passenger
ships at White Bay Cruise; ground
water contamination in the Pilliga by
Santos; failed prosecution of Du Pont
and the regulation forestry practices at
the Royal Camp State Forest.
Now, the state’s Legislative Council
committee has released a report
outlining its findings and has proposed
a range of recommendations.
The committee questioned the
complexity of the “duel hat” role
performed by chair and CEO Barry
Buffier, who presently reported both to
Environment Minister Rob Stokes and a
separately established EPA Board, which
acts as an independent, expertise-based
governing board that oversees and
monitors the activities of the EPA.
The committee said Buffier’s role
was in contrast to that of the CEO of
most other NSW agencies, where the
CEO participates as a member of the
oversight board but did not hold the
position of chair.
Thus, it recommended that the
Protection of the Environment
Administration (POEO) Act be amended
to provide for the appointment of a
chairperson of the board, independent
of the CEO, and the governor, on
recommendation of the environment
minister and with the concurrence of
the board, appoint the EPA’s new CEO.
A total of 17 recommendations were
made on how the EPA could improve,
most of them specific to the six cases.
However, the committee found the
regulator’s communication efforts
wanting, and recommended the EPA,
as part of its public engagement
clear the backlog of contaminated sites
awaiting assessments and called for the
development of systems to ensure these
sites “are assessed in a more timely
manner”.
Additionally,
the
committee
suggested applying a multiplier effect
for penalty notices to repeat offenders
and setting maximum pollution or
The committee said Buffier’s role stood in contrast to that of the
CEO of most other NSW agencies, where the CEO participates
as a member of the oversight board but did not hold the position
of chair.
and communication strategy, “make
greater use of community consultation
committees, ensuring they are
transparently evaluated and engender
genuine participation”.
The committee added that the
EPA should “take immediate steps to
refine and enhance stringent internal
protocols and procedures to ensure
timely public communication of all
pollution incidents”.
Resourcing was another issue noted by
the committee, which said the regulator
needed to be adequately resourced to
emissions caps for zones and regions,
and called for the EPA to conduct a
“comprehensive review” of its licensing
procedure for hazardous chemicals.
“The review should examine
the appropriateness of granting
environmental licences that do not
provide clear limits with respect
to the use of hazardous chemicals.
Further, the review should also
consider the appropriate recourse to
be taken against a licensee for failing
to maintain concentrations within
specified limits,” the committee said.
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Boucher has a multiyear strategy for TPI.
Fleet grounding, oil slump to
blame for Transpacific
first-half loss of $41.7M
TRANSPACIFIC Industries Group has
announced a $41.7 million first-half
loss, in part due to the impairment
of its hydrocarbons business caused
by the collapse of oil prices as well
as the costs associated with its fleet
grounding in August last year.
The company’s total revenue for the
six months that ended in December
2014 was $689.5 million but it booked
a $77.5 million impairment charge
against its hydrocarbons business,
which collects, refines and recycles
used mineral oils.
The impairment charge reflects the
large decrease experienced in the price
of fuel and base oil over the last six
months.
The decision to ground its heavy
fleet nationally on August 19 after a
fatal accident involving one of TPI’s
trucks has also costed the company,
with the financial impact calculated
to be $16.5 million. Without these
one-off charges, TPI reported a $22.8
million profit, down 45.3% from the
previous corresponding period.
However, CEO Bob Boucher said the
company has a multi-year strategy,
which will generate benefits over the
next 12 to 18 months.
The strategy revolves around four
key platforms: price and volume
growth; improving landfill capacity
and increasing internalisation rates;
maximising productivity; and targeting
tuck-in acquisitions.
Boucher said TPI would accelerate
the pace of projects that support the
four key components of the strategy as
well as continue to take a disciplined
approach towards the various value
adding tuck-in opportunities that are
currently under review.
Toxfree ‘very pleased’ with
first half performance
TOXFREE says it is “very pleased” with
its first half performance, announcing
that revenue has grown 14% from
the second half of FY14 thanks to
increased commercial waste volumes
in Queensland, additional contracts
amounting to $34 million and the
transition of the company’s Chevron
contract.
Revenue for the six months ending in
December 2014 was $203.7 million and
the company announced a net profit
after tax of $12.9 million – an increase
of 32% on the 2H14.
“Each of our service lines performed
well in a challenging environment
where there is limited growth in the
majority of industry sectors within the
Australian economy,” Toxfree said in a
statement.
“Waste services achieved sound
growth with good performance from
our east coast operations, the Pilbara
region and ongoing waste volumes
from the Gorgon LNG project.
“We have grown our volumes of
commercial waste in Brisbane and the
Gold Coast and developed a number of
cross-selling opportunities with our
other service lines. Reductions in fuel
costs will also help our performance in
coming months.”
The company added that there was
significant effort in reducing cost
during the first half of the financial
year, with 40 employees made
redundant resulting in redundancy
costs of $492,000 being expensed
within the half-year result.
Looking ahead, Toxfree managing
director Steve Gotslow said: “Trading
conditions remain challenging and
although the first half of financial
year 2015 has started well, we expect
conditions will remain this way in the
short-term.”
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NSW container deposit scheme
to start in 2017
GULLY WASTE,
ROAD SWEEPINGS
& TROMMEL FINES
RECYCLING
NSW Premier Mike Baird and
Environment Minister Rob Stokes have
announced that if re-elected in March,
NSW will have a container deposit
scheme (CDS) in two years.
By July 1, 2017, communities will be
able to use one of at least 800 reverse
vending machines at popular beaches,
parks and public spaces, which Baird
said is the government’s preferred
model.
The scheme will provide consumers
or a charity of their choice a small
financial reward for depositing a drink
container in a reverse vending machine.
However, Baird said the government
is “open to better alternatives” and will
engage in “comprehensive community
consultation” on the design of the
scheme and the incentive structure for
communities to participate.
“We want to help communities look
after their local environment by being
better equipped to tackle litter and
increase recycling. We estimate that
at least 800 reverse vending machines
will be installed across NSW – offering
communities the opportunity to be
rewarded for contributing to positive
environmental outcomes in the places
where they are most needed,” Baird
said.
NSW Premier Mike Baird.
“Our container deposit scheme will
complement, rather than compete with,
our existing kerbside recycling system
and help the government achievement
our ambitious litter reduction and
recycling targets,” Stokes added.
National convenor of the Boomerang
Alliance Jeff Angel said the 2017 start
date is reasonable, given the decision
will take about two years to implement
through consultation, design, passage
of law and installation of infrastructure,
and he projected that the scheme will
generate $65 million a year for charities,
schools and sporting groups.
“No industry alternative can match
these achievements,” Angel said.
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Steven Miles named Qld’s
new environment minister
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Cabinet and among them is first-time
MP Steven Miles.
Miles has been given the environment
and heritage portfolio, replacing
Andrew Powell as the new Minister for
the Environment.
Miles has a PhD from the University
of Queensland and runs a business in
Mount Coo-tha, about 6km west of
Brisbane.
Only four of Palaszczuk’s Cabinet
members, including the premier, have
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previous ministerial experience.
However, Miles believes these firsttime ministers, himself included, would
be able to meet the challenge.
“I looked up and down that front row
of people ... and I know all of them
very well and they are all very gifted
and bring experience and skills to the
government,” Miles told the Courier
Mail newspaper.
“Obviously when you put your hand
up to serve, you hope to one day serve
in a ministerial role. I certainly didn’t
anticipate it to be this sudden and I’m
deeply honoured that Annastacia has
given me the privilege.”
“I don’t expect it will be easy but
the environment is something that I
have been passionate about for a very
long time and the chance to directly
contribute to government policy in
that area is a real honour.”
Other ministers in Palaszczuk’s
cabinet include Mark Bailey, Minister
for Energy and Water Supply, Dr Anthony
Lynham, Minister for Natural Resources
and Mines and Jackie Trad, Minister for
Infrastructure, Local Government and
Planning.
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// News
Renergi’s gasification
technology
Renergi scores
$5.2M funding
for biofuel
technology
THE Australian Renewable Energy Agency
(ARENA) has announced $5.2 million
in funding for Renergi to design and
construct a pilot-scale biofuel production
facility in Perth.
Renergi was created out of Curtin
University to commercialise a suite of
energy technologies developed by the
university’s Fuels and Energy Technology
Institute.
Its
efforts
include
biomass
gasification for distributed power and
heat generation, biomass pyrolysis and
refinery for the production of biochar,
bio-oil and advanced biofuels, and cofiring of biomass with coal in the existing
Grants for weighbridges
now available
WASTE grants of up to $75,000 are now
available from the NSW EPA to help
licensed waste operators in the levy
paying areas install weighbridges by
next year.
Under changes to the Protection of
the Environment Operations (Waste)
Regulation introduced in November,
waste operators, including recyclers,
will be required to regularly record and
report to the EPA the movements of
waste at their facilities.
To ensure that waste tonnages
are accurately measured, all relevant
scheduled facilities in the levy paying
area will need to have a weighbridge
installed by February 1, 2016.
The EPA has committed to help with
this cost and has now opened the
Weighbridge Fund with grants of up to
$75,000 to help fund this capital cost.
These grants are open to facilities
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coal-fired power stations.
With the funding, Renergi aims to
scale up existing technology and will
design and construct a 100kg per hour
biomass conversion (pyrolysis) unit,
along with a complementary 20 litre per
hour bio-refinery unit.
“Renergi’s approach would allow green
bio-crude to be produced by conversion
units at the source of feedstocks and
refined into high quality transport
biofuels and a large central refinery,”
ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht said.
He said the technology had the
potential to reduce the cost of bioenergy
by offering novel approaches to
conversion and refining processes.
“Existing processes require agricultural
waste crops to first be ground into
smaller pieces, costing considerable
time and energy. Renergi’s solution
aims to streamline this step by
incorporating steel grinding balls into
a rotating biomass conversation unit,
allowing simultaneous break-down and
gasification,” Frischknecht said.
“The plant will operate at low
temperatures and close to atmospheric
pressure increasing safety and reducing
energy requirements and capital costs.”
The $12.9 million project is scheduled
for completion in October 2017.
that undertake resource recovery, waste
processing (non-thermal treatment)
and waste storage activities.
EPA director waste and resource
recovery Steve Beaman said ensuring
waste was managed at the resource
recovery stage would help to
prevent illegal dumping and illegal
stockpiling.
“Keeping accurate waste records
makes good business sense, but also
ensures that illegal operators do not
undermine those who legitimately
manage their waste. Implementation
of this scheme is designed to
encourage greater investment in
recycling infrastructure,” Beaman
said.
“Installation
of
weighbridges
to facilitate the measurement and
accountability of waste is essential to
the legal operation of this scheme so
that operators can keep track of how
much they have received in each load
and have stored onsite.”
More information on the grants can
be found on the EPA website www.epa.
nsw.gov.au
Applications close at 5pm on Friday,
April 17.
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News //
All Waste Less Recycle More projects free to participate in ERF
The Department of the Environment
has dumped rules excluding Waste Less
Recycle More projects from participating
in the Emissions Reduction Fund.
In previous drafts of the Carbon
Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative)
Rule 2015, the instrument that will
guide the ERF’s first auction on April
15, the department proposed that
projects funded under WLRM were
ineligible for ERF carbon credits.
“Under the government funding
additionality test, an offsets project
must not have received, or be going to
receive in accordance with the terms
of a contract or other arrangement
that has been entered into, funding
by way of a grant or other payment
under either of the following if the
funding relates to activities that are,
or are to be, undertaken as part of the
project: (b) the initiative known as the
Waste Less, Recycle More Initiative,
administered by the New South Wales
government,” the draft rule said.
However, thanks to the concerted
efforts of the Waste Management
Association of Australia carbon
committee, AORA, Corporate Carbon,
MRA Consulting, NSW EPA and the
NSW Environment Minister Rob Stokes,
the final rules published at the end of
February no longer include a limitation
on WLRM projects.
In summary, the organisations
argued that:
• WLRM and ERF were different in both
objective and outcomes; and
• WLRM funds infrastructure designed
to improve diversion from landfill.
They do not specifically fund carbon
abatement projects and abatement is
not a selection criteria. By contrast,
ERF funding specifically targets
abatement.
Projects which can now receive
funding and carbon revenue under both
schemes include:
• AWT diversion of organics from landfill;
• Landfill gas collection and flare or
energy production;
• Food organics collection and diversion
from landfill (coming soon); and
• Energy from waste (coming soon).
Energy efficiency, soil carbon and
composting, bio-filters and phytocaps,
biofuels and waste avoidance projects
may also be eligible projects under
the ERF.
WLRM projects can now receive
funding and carbon revenue.
Review gives WA contaminated sites act the tick
WA Environment Minister Albert Jacob
has tabled a report on the review of
the state’s Contaminated Sites Act in
Parliament, saying the act is working
well.
Jacob said the community and the
environment were better protected
from the effects of contamination now
compared to before the act came into
effect in 2006.
Over the past eight years, more than
3500 known or suspected contaminated
sites have been reported to the
Department of Environment Regulation
and its predecessor, the Department of
Environment and Conservation.
Information on these sites, including
the contaminants and their location,
is recorded and made available to the
public.
“More than 60 written submissions
were received during the two
consultation periods, “ Jacob said.
“The review identified some minor
areas for improvement. Many of these
issues raised were of an administrative
or technical nature, which can be
addressed through guidance updates.”
As a result of the review, Jacob said
there would be increased certainty that
contamination was being reported in
a timely manner and was taken into
account by decision makers such as
local planners.
Environmental consultants will now
be advised to inform their clients of
their legal obligation to report any
known or suspected contaminated
site as soon as contamination is
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SUEZ environnement consolidates
SUEZ environnement has announced that
it is consolidating its 40 different brands
into one and according to a report by the
Australian Financial Review, the company
will be spending up to 70 million Euros
($A96 million) over the next two years to
accomplish this.
In Australia, SUEZ environnement
owns 60% of SITA Australia, which is
the country’s second largest waste
management company. It is co-owned
by Singapore’s Sembcorp Industries.
It also owns Degremont Australia and
Process Group and all three entities will
now come together as one organisation
and one brand – SUEZ environnement.
The company said the move would
support the group’s strategy, based
on four “essential pillars”: smart water
and new services, industry, waste-toenergy and international growth.
“Until now, the group has been
organised around two major activities:
water and waste. But today, the group’s
positioning focuses on sustainable
management of resources, through four
EPA releases guides for
composting, contaminated soil
THE Victorian EPA has released two
publications on composting and
contaminated soil facilities.
The final guideline on designing,
constructing and operating composting
facilities provides information on
composting operators’ obligations
under laws administered by EPA and
provides suggestions on how to comply.
The EPA said the guideline will:
• Provide composting operators with
advice on how to design, construct
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and manage composting facilities in
a manner that protects human health
and the environment in Victoria;
• Be used to inform EPA decision
making for facilities that require
research, design and demonstration
approvals, works approvals and
licences; and
• Be used by EPA as a guide for how
premises could resolve issues of noncompliance.
The scope is restricted to composting
main activities: the management of the
extended water cycle, the recycling and
reuse of waste, water treatment solutions
and consulting services for sustainable
urban and regional development,” SUEZ
environnement said.
To lead SUEZ environnement’s
activities in Australia, Eric Gernath has
been appointed CEO of the Australian
business unit, after serving as
managing director of SITA Australia for
the last eight years.
“We are facing the increasing scarcity of
natural resources. Amid rising population
growth and increasing density in our
cities, our customers across the public and
private sectors are looking for global and
innovative solutions that meet these new
challenges,” Gernath said.
“Whether it’s delivering safe,
clean and reliable drinking water or
integrating secondary raw materials
into production chains, the new
structure for the group in Australia
will enable us to better respond to the
changing needs of our customers.”
processes only. It does not cover
anaerobic digestion, vermiculture,
dehydration or the composting of
contaminated wastes for the purpose
of bioremediation.
In anticipation of contaminated
soil treatment facilities operating
in Victoria, EPA has also released a
draft position statement on offsite
treatment and landfilling options for
contaminated soils.
The guidelines focus on contaminated
soils that cannot remain at the site
of origin, and the obligation on
generators of such wastes to consider
regulation nine of the Environment
Protection (Industrial Waste Resource)
Regulations 2009.
Submissions on the draft position
statement can be made to guidelines@
epa.vic.gov.au by 5pm on April 10,
2015.
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Environment ministers agree to
collaborate on waste initiatives
Commonwealth, state and territory
environment ministers met in Canberra
earlier this month and have agreed
to continue to work cooperatively on
waste management solutions, including
sharing of e-waste information. They’ve
also agreed to extend the Australian
Packaging Covenant for 12 months.
Ministers noted the ”good progress”
on the operational review of the
national television and computer
recycling scheme and confirmed their
ongoing support for a shared approach
to e-waste management.
also
recognised
that
They
strengthened efforts from industry
and governments were needed to
complement any adjustments to the
scheme to take effect from July 1 and
agreed to share information on actions
each jurisdiction was undertaking to
address waste arising from e-waste,
which sits outside of the NTCRS.
Acknowledging the ongoing role the
Australian Packaging Covenant (APC)
plays in contributing to improved
recycling outcomes and reducing litter,
ministers agreed to an extension of
the existing APC for 12 months with
officials to engage with the packaging
industry to come back to ministers by
late 2015 on the approach to be taken
Hunt ready to up pressure
on plastic bag ban
Hunt has also signalled that he’s ready
to step up pressure to enforce a ban on
plastic bags nationally.
“It’s a little bit hard under federal
law to do that, but you can use the
bully pulpit of the national role to
make sure we get rid of these non-
biodegradable bags,” Hunt told the
Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.
“Sadly, they’re more prevalent than
you think.” According to Clean Up
Australia research, more than three
billion plastic bags are used in Australia
annually, with 50 million ending up as
Hunt is keen
to phase out
microbeads and
ban plastic bags.
from July 1, 2016.
Phasing out microbeads was another
point of discussion at the meeting.
“We agreed to work towards a
complete phase out of microbeads.
These are small pieces of plastic, which
are often microscopic, that end up in
waterways and can have a significant
negative impact on the environment,”
Federal Environment Minister Greg
Hunt said.
Four jurisdictions have taken strong
regulatory action to ban the supply of
light weight plastic bags due to their
persistence in the environment and
NSW and South Australia have agreed
to lead work on a jurisdictional phase
down of microbeads.
NSW has also agreed to advance
further work on practical solutions for
jurisdictional approaches to dealing
with light-weight plastic bags.
litter. Founder of Clean Up Australia
Ian Kiernan said the organisation had
campaigned for a ban on plastic bags
“forever”.
“Plastic bags are a dangerous blight
on this country. Because they’re so
durable, they accumulate and kill
wildlife and plants,” Kiernan said.
The NSW Greens have said that if
elected, they would introduce laws into
Parliament shortly after the March 28
state election to ban single-use plastic
bags. The legislation would phase out
plastic bags by the end of the year.
“NSW is lagging [behind] other states
that have already adopted this measure
to reduce the environmental damage
that plastic causes,” Greens candidate
for Newcastle Michael Osborne said.
“There is no excuse for NSW – I call
on the Labor and Liberal parties to
support a ban.”
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Gosford seeks $3M for AWT facility
GOSFORD Council wants to make
alternative waste treatment a reality on
the Central Coast of NSW and is seeking
$3 million from the state government
to build a facility.
The mechanical biological treatment
facility will accept approximately
40,000 tonnes of waste from
households and businesses annually to
produce recyclable material, including
paper, cardboard, metals and plastic,
as well as mechanical biologically
treated compost and refuse derived
fuel.
It is expected to extend the life of
the council’s Woy Woy landfill by 30
years and will be constructed at the
Woy Woy Waste Disposal Depot on
Niagiri road.
The council submitted an application
for a Waste Less Recycle More grant in
December and has now been invited
by the Environmental Trust to submit
a final business case. If awarded the
$3 million, the council said it would
match the funding.
“By 2030, GCC (Gosford City Council)
will have ... adopted advanced waste
treatment technology to significantly
reduce household residual waste
disposed to landfill and considered
adoption of new technology (especially
energy from waste) as it becomes
available,” GCC said.
Aspitech turns around under Minda
ADELAIDE e-waste recycler Aspitech
faced closure last year, but thanks to a
successful takeover by Minda it is now
looking to recruit new staff.
In September, the social enterprise
said it was struggling to stay afloat
and would be forced to shut unless
cash could be found to save it.
Aspitech, which provided work for
the intellectually disabled, said it had
been struggling since it lost a major
contract under the National Television
and Computer Recycling Scheme.
In December, SA’s largest nongovernment
disability
support
organisation, Minda, offered Aspitech
a lifeline, signing a memorandum of
understanding with its parent company
South Australia Group Enterprises
to assist the organisation with
operating capital to support its 140
employees.
Minda chief executive Cathy Miller
told The Advertiser newspaper she
was thrilled to see more clients from
the mining, banking and government
sectors using Aspitech.
“Increased volumes from existing
customers, combined with a number of
new contracts, has seen the amount of
e-waste processed by the Aspitech team
grow from 10 to 20 tonnes per month
last year to a staggering 150 to 200
tonnes per month,” she said.
Miller said a target of 300 tonnes per
month had been set for the middle of
2015 and this would likely result in 20
new jobs at Aspitech.
Aspitech commercial enterprise
manager Andrew Wallace said the
increased volume was due to the influx
of new clients via Minda’s network and
new collection points.
He added that the Federal
government’s announcement of its
operational review of the NTCRS had
created attention and action, and
its recommendation to increase the
recycling targets meant Aspitech would
need more staff.
“A lot of clients have come through
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Wallace said.
“It’s been astounding. We are
looking to get where we were 18/24
months ago.”
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Intermercato’s
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“In our new warehouse we’re able
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“If you brief us on your machinery
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Dear Members,
At the beginning of March
2015, I decided the time
was right for a change
in my career and to step
aside as WMAA Chief
Executive in the “not too
distant future”. After a
little over 13 years in the
role, I believe the time is
also right for a change in leadership at WMAA.
From the time I commenced as inaugural
CEO, I have watched the Association grow
from 900 members to over 2,000 individuals
and companies, remaining the peak body for
all stakeholders in the waste and resource
recovery industry. Due to the commitment of all
our wonderful members and my fantastic team
of hard working staff, the Association continues
to be relevant in our sector.
I feel that I have personally achieved almost
everything that I set out to achieve since
my appointment in 2001. Now, I am looking
forward to a new challenge.
I am sure there will be exciting times ahead
for WMAA, with “new blood” to take the
Association forward to the next stage of its
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Landfill sector set to shine again
From 27 – 30 July 2015, WMAA will host one of its
flagship events – the 6th Australian Landfill & Transfer
Stations Conference and Expo – at the National
Convention Centre in Canberra.
This year’s conference theme, Continuing the
Transformation, underpins the importance of transfer
stations and landfills as essential components of an
effective waste management system. The conference
will focus on the continuing transformation and
improvement of transfer stations and landfills, and
provide a forum to learn about and discuss the latest
developments and innovations in policy, planning,
design, management, monitoring and regulation of
these facilities. This year, the event organising committee
once again deliver an array of keynote speakers who are
at the forefront of the field.
Hon Bob Baldwin
Parliamentary Secretary
for Federal Minister for the
Environment
Bob Baldwin is the Parliamentary
Secretary to the Minister for the
Environment and the Liberal
Member for Paterson.
Bob was also a Parliamentary
Secretary in the Howard
Government. He was elected to the House of
Representatives for Paterson, New South Wales, in 1996.
Although defeated at the general election in 1998, Bob
was re-elected in 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013.
Stan Krpan
CEO, Sustainability Victoria
Stan Krpan has extensive
experience in executive roles
in Victorian public sector
organisations. Prior to his
appointment in January 2012, Stan
was General Manager Governance
at Sustainability Victoria. In 2011,
he completed a review of the
strategic direction of the organisation which set the
foundation for SV’s strategic plan SV2015.
In 2010, Stan undertook an independent review of
the Environment Protection Authority Victoria and its
approach to compliance and enforcement. The Report
recommendations were endorsed in full. The review
formed the blueprint for the transformation of EPA
and underpins its five year strategic plan. The report
has influenced the regulatory strategies of a number of
Australian regulators.
Eric Mead
Vice President, HDR
Eric has 25 years of experience
in the solid waste field
including responsibilities for the
planning, design, engineering,
implementation, construction and
operation of transfer stations,
recycling facilities, and landfills
as part of an integrated solid
waste system.
Eric is a Vice-President with HDR in their Seattle office
and leads their solid waste practice in the Pacific
Northwest. His recent project experience includes a
landfill expansion, new landfill cell construction, closed
landfill audit, and a new transfer station/recycling facility
planning, permitting, design and construction.
Kevin Torrens
Vice President, Brown & Caldwell, US
Kevin Torrens has over 31 years of experience in
industrial wastewater, leachate treatment, O&M,
and hazardous waste site remediation groundwater
treatment projects.
Kevin has managed numerous biological and physical/
chemical wastewater treatability and process design
projects for pharmaceutical, organic chemicals,
petroleum refining, food processing and pulp and paper
industries’ landfills and CERCLA sites. Kevin started the
O&M group in New Jersey, which provides contract O&M
services for remediation sites and industrial facilities
throughout New Jersey.
For more information or to register,
visit www.landfill.com.au
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The WMAA AGM will be held on Monday 25 May 2015 at the Novotel Parramatta, 350 Church Street,
Parramatta, Sydney.
Food and organic waste //
Ready, set, (FO)GO!
Where NSW is at with FOGO
FOOD and organic waste (FOGO)
accounts for more than 60% of an
average household’s garbage bin.
With potential cost savings associated
with landfill levy avoidance, coupled
with new alternative waste treatment
methodologies relating to organics
under the Emissions Reduction Fund
and increasing waste targets, will we
see more councils take up a third bin
for FOGO?
Three-bin systems are commonplace
across Australia although the third bin
in question is usually used for garden
organics (GO) and not FOGO.
In New South Wales, a number of
initiatives aim to drive the diversion of
organics from landfills, including the
state government’s Waste Less Recycle
More organics infrastructure fund and
the Love Food Hate Waste education
program.
Inside Waste delves into the
potential cost savings, challenges and
misconceptions around FOGO on page
21 but here is a snapshot of the GO and
FOGO scene in NSW.
7.2M (2013)
152 local government
areas (2013)
Produces 3.4Mt
of organic waste
annually.
$2.5 billion worth of
food thrown away
annually.
805,245 tonnes of FOGO and other
organics from households landfilled.
The opportunity
NSW recovers 762,886 tonnes of total
household organics.
If all organics in household waste
were recovered:
End markets
The compost sector
would double: 762,886
+ 805,245 = 1,532,127
tonnes/year.
Using realistic recovery
rates:
• FO 805,245t @ 60% of bin =
483,147t. 60% recovery = 289,888t
• GO 805,245 @40% of bin =
322,098t. 90% recovery = 289,888t
• Additional recovered
organics under normal
circumstances =
579,776t
• Giving a total household
compost sector of
1,306,658 t/yr.
• Rehabilitation:
landfill cover and
rehabilitation,
erosion stabilisation,
land reclamation,
restoration,
revegetation and
rectification.
• Environmental
remediation:
contaminated site
and soils remediation,
water purification and
biofiltration uses.
• Urban amenity:
residential and
commercial landscaping,
retail nursery and
special projects (such as
highway verges) = 2/3
of market share.
• Intensive agriculture:
including viticulture,
vegetable production,
fruit and orchards,
turf production,
nursery production and
wholesaling.
• Extensive agriculture:
pasture production
(livestock including
sheep, beef and dairy),
broadacre cropping and
forestry.
• 67 councils have GO bins
• 11 councils have FOGO bins
• 25 councils are implementing
FOGO bins (SUDs and/or MUDs)
• 6 ongoing trials
Grants available and issued
Program
Total amount available
Number awarded to date
Local Government Organics Collection 2013
$16.2M
21 ($6.52M)
Local Government Organics Collection 2014
$1.4M
10 ($5.81M)
Love Food Hate Waste (Food Waste Avoidance Education) 2013
$43M
10 ($356,800)
Organics Infrastructure
$59.29M
8 ($13.19M)
1
3 ($1.24M)
3
4 ($1.23M)
4
Total
Stream/round
2
GO contamination
rate: 3.2%
44 ($18.86M)
Data sourced by MRA Consulting Group. For more information contact Mike Ritchie on 0408 663 942, www.mraconsulting.com.au or email mike@mraconsulting.com.au
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// Food and Organics
So, you’re ready for FOGO?
By Jacqueline Ong
IS there a compelling case for councils
to go down the FOGO path? For New
South Wales at least, the government
is supportive of increasing organic
diversion rates and has put its money
where its mouth is with the Waste Less
Recycle More initiative (more on page
20).
MRA Consulting Group director Mike
Ritchie told Inside Waste that councils
should examine the various benefits of
implementing a FOGO system.
“There are potential savings that
come with avoiding landfill levies.
Also, new and additional composting
and diversion from landfill projects
may now earn carbon credits under
the Federal government’s Direct Action
plan,” he said.
There are currently two waste-related
methodologies under the Emissions
Reduction Fund – AWT diversion of
organics from landfill and landfill gas
flaring – but this may soon change.
MRA’s Julien Gastaldi, together
with the WMAA carbon committee, is
participating in an ERF technical group
to develop a methodology for the
diversion of organics from landfill by
composting. Once this is up and running
there will be more opportunities to use
organics to generate carbon credits.
The NSW government’s WLRM
program is another big incentive.
“The WLRM Organics Infrastructure
Fund will provide funding to local
government for new or enhanced
kerbside collection services for food
and garden organics waste. Grants will
also be given to councils that switch
to or enhance their three-bin systems,”
Ritchie explained.
“Under WLRM, there is also the
organics infrastructure program, which
supports new and enhanced onsite
processing of organic waste and food
donation projects as well as council
home composting programs.
“In addition, there’s the Love Food
Hate Waste program, which funds
awareness and education initiatives.”
Whether you’re in NSW and can take
advantage of the funding available or
in WA where the landfill levy has just
increased, Ritchie recommended doing
a cost/benefit analysis of FOGO versus
landfill first, which is what MRA does
for its clients.
“MRA has a Full Cost Model,
which compares bin options and
tonnages with all available treatment
or processing options, including
composting and landfill, and quantifies
the results in terms of cost, greenhouse
gas emissions, vehicle kilometres
travelled and diversion from landfill,”
Ritchie said.
Main challenges
The key issue is determining whether
FOGO is in fact a cost-effective
solution.
“This is driven by the opportunity
cost of landfill. Cheap landfill means
a lesser likelihood of FOGO collection
and composting. The business case for
FOGO is improving in levy areas, but
less in rural Australia,” Ritchie said.
There is also the issue of transport
costs eroding profitability, since
composting facilities in metropolitan
areas need to account for the costs in
transporting materials.
“Some composters have under-priced
at tender and then are left trying to
move compost into locally oversupplied
markets. The big compost market is
rural Australia and we need to price
compost to get it there,” Ritchie said.
Finally, the lack of information on
the benefit of recycled organic products
in both crop production/animal
production and soil enhancement is a
barrier.
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Clearing misconceptions
While the challenges are certainly
real, Ritchie says there are also a lot
of misconceptions around FOGO that
should be cleared up.
For instance, some are of the opinion
that there are simply not enough
markets for compost.
“This is an unrealistic fear.
Australian soils are the most degraded
in the world and farmers need and want
compost ... but at the right price and
quality. Market size and robustness
are a function of supply and demand.
If more organics from households are
“pushed” by councils to the compost
processors, the composters will charge,
via tender, a market gate fee, which
covers all processing, quality control
and transport costs,” he said.
“Councils will pay for the real cost if
the user market is further away or the
composter is required to meet specific
quality standards. Of course there are
lags and transaction errors but the
market price will rise to cover the full
costs.
“For processors, developing new
markets further afield is a nice problem
to have. Composters must not assume
they can sell into oversupplied local
markets and must price additional
transport costs into tenders. This will
result in a general rise in composting
gate fees.”
Another misconception is that FOGO
is too political to introduce when in
fact councils running these systems
say they get “very high” community
engagement.
There are right ways to engage
the community and the most
successful engagements come through
participatory planning and decision
making where groups are fully consulted
on all questions, at all stages.
For those who think FOGO is “too
expensive”, Ritchie said: “With rising
landfill gate fees, driven by levies,
FOGO is generally line ball or slightly
cheaper than landfill in 2015 and will
certainly be cheaper over a longer
period.”
“Rural areas with cheap landfills
find it more difficult to justify FOGO
on economic grounds but often the
landfills are artificially cheap and
are accruing unfunded liabilities.
If councils fix the landfill pricing
problem, FOGO or GO often become
price competitive.”
Another common myth is that there
are “lots of stockpiles of compost”
when very little is actually stockpiled.
Any stockpiling is usually due to
seasonal demand and supply.
Moving forward
Ritchie offers some advice to councils
thinking about FOGO.
#1 Don’t change too much at once.
“One council changed the residual
bin from 240 litres (weekly) to 120
litres (fortnightly) and added a 240
litre FOGO bin at the same time.
They did this in summer and faced
significant community backlash
due to odour and misuse,” Ritchie
revealed.
#2 Educate and keep educating.
“Penrith was one of the first to
move to FOGO and had a 30%
contamination rate. Four years
on, it has an 11% contamination
rate and one of the highest
diversion rates of any council in
Australia.”
#3 Generally keep the FOGO bin weekly.
“Only one council in NSW has
fortnightly FOGO. It is a long time
between services and most opt for
the organics bin to go weekly. I
think that is prudent. Keep it simple
at first and add embellishments
later once the basic system is
iw
bedded down”.
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Recycling //
Talk of the town: where
NSW is at with CDS
By Jacqueline Ong
AFTER years of debate and politicking,
the discussions and announcements
made over the last three months could
very well set the scene for what’s about
to happen in New South Wales when
it comes to container deposit schemes.
At present, there are still more
questions than answers. For one, the
Baird government announced that if
re-elected in March, NSW will have a
CDS in 2017. But at press time, the
elections were still a week away.
While Labor has indicated that they
too will commit to a CDS if elected,
they’ve released no detail around how
the scheme will work.
Like Labor, the Baird government
has provided little explanation of the
scheme. What we do know is that the
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The incentive structure has also not
been finalised but it is understood
that consumers or a charity will be
given a small financial reward – not
necessarily 10 cents – for depositing
their containers.
It seems the government’s focus is
on reducing litter; after all, these RVMs
– all 800 of them – will be located in
public spaces and litter hotspots.
When SA took the CDS lead in the
1970s, the state was also focused on
combating litter and it was only in
the early 90s that the focus shifted to
landfill diversion and recycling.
Inside Waste talked to NSW
Environment Minister Rob Stokes in
an attempt to gain some clarity and
the minister confirmed that while the
details were still being finalised, litter
was at the heart of the scheme.
“Where South Australia’s CDS uses
collection depots on the outskirts
of metropolitan areas, the NSW
government is looking at reverse
vending machines in high-traffic public
areas. This is to make the scheme easy
and accessible to maximise the impact
on litter,” Stokes said.
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“We will be consulting with the
MRFs claim the rebate on baled cans
community and a CDS expert working
and baled PET volumes. We also raised
group before the release of our final
the issue of what kind of compensation
design in March 2016 and the scheme
they would give to MRFs affected by
is implemented on July 1, 2017,”
this scheme because there’s been
Stokes added.
significant commercial investment
He also acknowledged that the
across the state,” Khoury said.
beverage industry had raised concerns
Stokes asserted that the CDS, in
about some of the potential details
whatever shape or form it takes, will
of the scheme, particularly around
complement kerbside recycling because
cross border issues and participation
it is being “restricted to containers
by out-of-state producers. Although
most often consumed away from home,
Stokes did not provide solutions to
such as single serve soft drink cans
these potential problems, he said there
and bottles”.
was general agreement on the use of
“Households will also be encouraged
reverse vending machines.
to continue to use the kerbside system
Another area of uncertainty is what
in the knowledge that the refund will
these RVMs will be able to collect and
be redeemed by the council and help
if this or any other CDS scheme will
offset the council waste charges,”
complement the state’s successful
Stokes said.
kerbside recycling program.
Once consultations begin, Khoury
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said the the definition of an “away
Association of NSW (WCRA) breakfast
from home container” will need to
briefing in March, executive director
be developed along with an idea of
Tony Khoury told members the
what will be accepted by these RVMs
association had pointed out the
because broken glass, which RVMs
importance of not undermining the
may not collect, continues to be a big
kerbside system.
problem for the kerbside system.
“We’ve
highlighted
to
the
“Currently, the EPA is working on the
government the importance of
illegal dumping issue around charity
materials recovery facilities (MRFs) and
bins and you could have the same
we’ve said if you’re going to go down
problem with RVMs. If these machines
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people might just leave their glass
bottles there,” Khoury added.
There is a lot of uncertainty at the
moment but it seems the government is
determined to involve all stakeholders
in the design of the CDS.
Khoury was in talks with the
government over the last three months
and National Packaging Covenant
Industry Association CEO Stan Moore
confirmed that the association had
received a request to be involved in
consultations.
“The beverage industry will be a key
stakeholder in a NSW CDS and therefore
the NSW government has been in
discussions with the industry for some
time,” Stokes said.
“The beverage industry will continue
to work through the details of the
CDS as part of the expert working
group, along with representatives
from recycling associations, local
government, retailers, technology
experts and environment stakeholders.”
Ultimately, the aim is for the scheme
to form an integral part of the state’s
waste system.
“It will complement the five-year,
$465.7 million Waste Less Recycle More
program, the current kerbside recycling
collections that are already achieving
great results for beverages consumed
Reverse vending machines will make
a CDS easy and accessible: Stokes
at home and advertising campaigns
such as Hey Tosser,” Stokes said.
The situation will be much clearer
post-election, but for now there is
some indication of who the potential
beneficiaries are.
“The establishment of the NSW CDS
will mean opportunities for businesses
to supply and service reverse vending
machines, transport the collected
containers and recycle them into new
products,” Stokes said.
Khoury agreed: “The big winners out
of this will be those who sell RVMs.
But we’ve said to the government that
RVMs must be subject to minimum
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WASTE crime is a broad term and
includes not only the ‘shadow industry’
– those deliberately flouting the system
– but also licenced operators who
deliberately choose to be non-compliant
with licence conditions. Thus, the new
Waste Crime Index (WCI), currently
under development in Queensland, is
urgently needed to quantify the true size
of the shadow sector and its impacts on
legitimate operators.
There is no doubt in talking with
industry that waste crime is reaching
epidemic proportions in Queensland,
impacting the business strategies
of legitimate enterprise. Licencing
and compliance appear to be more
commonly perceived as optional. This
view, it is argued, has been supported
by the deregulation of particular
activities coupled with a compliance
program which focuses on known,
licenced operators.
Poor performance, on-site fires
and the abandonment of waste sites,
particularly associated with tyres
following the deregulation of tyre
storage activities in the state, as well as
high-profile incidents such as the theft
of the metal rail lines in Caboolture in
2012 do make headline news. Despite
these incidents, much of the knowledge
and data around waste crime in
Queensland are anecdotal, limited to
fines and the financial costs associated
with managing illegal dumping.
In the UK, the Environmental
Services Association Education Trust
released a report in June last year,
warning of a “culture of criminality”
appearing in the country’s waste
sector, with some industry leaders
claiming that the sector has become
an easy target for organised criminal
gangs. The report suggests that of the
types of waste crime prevalent in the
UK, illegal waste sites make up £126224 million ($A243-432 million) worth
of damage each year, with tax evasion
and fly tipping making up between
£93-314 million and £103-280 million
respectively. These add to a possible
£800 million in costs annually.
The report acknowledged the
increasing pressure on government
funds but demonstrated how the cost
of enforcement activity to stop waste
crime will quickly pay for itself many
times over, through increased tax
income, reduced clean-up costs and
a thriving legitimate waste sector.
In order to tackle the problem, the
report recommended that waste crime
enforcement budgets are bolstered,
claiming that for every £1 spent on
increasing security, an estimated £3.20
would be returned to government funds.
Meanwhile, the EU-Eurojust (the EU’s
judicial cooperation body) released a
report in January 2015 noting that while
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waste crime was increasing, the number
of prosecutions for environmental crimes
did not reflect either the magnitude or
real impact of this crime. This is certainly
the case in Queensland, where data
collected by the Waste to Opportunity
Enterprise relating to penalties and fines
issued by the Environmental Regulator
clearly demonstrates a focus on pursuing
technical
non-compliance
among
licenced operators, but an apparent
averseness to pursue unlicenced criminal
operations.
Controlling the shadow waste
industry is essential to uphold the
reputation of the industry and to
safeguard the commerciality of all
businesses. So the question for decision
makers and regulatory bodies is: if we
know that waste crime is a growing
and significant problem, why is there
no focused action to address it?
Measuring waste crime
If you cannot measure it, you cannot
manage it.
Research is currently
underway to compile a WCI with the
primary aim of providing high quality,
quantifiable and transparent data to
demonstrate the size of this growing
issue and to inform government policy
to prioritise compliance activities to
reduce the shadow industry, particularly
as there seems to be a disconnect
where the cost of enforcement
and compliance is not beneficially
recognised by the government.
Quantifying the shadow industry
also has an impact on legitimate
organisations, their boards and
business strategies, which ultimately
propose and support new investment
decisions, as any action and reduction
in waste crime will increase market
opportunities for legitimate operators.
The WCI can be used within a waste
management decision framework to
prioritise investment decisions, taking
into account financial, community
and environmental standards and
commercial risks.
It is certainly difficult to quantify
a problem which does not appear on
paper and whose costs go beyond
traditional
economic
calculation.
Waste criminals typically have
no licences, no reported turnover
for tax purposes (dealing in cash
transactions), and no stated employees
for the purpose of paying mandatory
workplace insurance premiums. There
are also elements and costs, which are
not easily economically quantifiable,
for example, loss of community
aesthetics relating to a piece of land
subject to unlawful dumping, a tyre
fire resulting in breathing difficulties
in local children, or ingestion of waste
plastics by wildlife.
Outcomes, not excuses
As the cost of controlled legal disposal
or sorting for recovery increases, the
demand for illegal (cheaper) waste
disposal services have, and will
continue to grow.
Queensland’s
Department
of
Environment and Heritage Protection has
recognised some of these issues and in a
recent amendment to the Environmental
Protection Act and subsequent new
Guideline: Transitional Environmental
Program, clarified the suitability and
application of Transitional Environmental
Programs (TEPs) to address previous
abuses of the tool by some licenced
operators who had intentionally
underinvested in pollution mitigation
and minimum standards.
While this is certainly a welcome
policy direction, it only addresses
those who are licenced and inspected
and not the growing number of
unlicenced facilities which are typically
unidentified/unknown to regulators.
The lack of compliance action
for waste crime is problematic for
companies, particularly those for whom
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criminal element, there is a genuine
risk of stranded assets and failed
investments.
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governments that there is commercial
benefit in doing the right thing and
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WMAA //
A decade of change
under Val Southam
By Jacqueline Ong
Long-serving Waste Management
Association of Australia (WMAA) CEO
Val Southam has announced that she
will be stepping down “in the not too
distant future” but says this is not
goodbye.
“I cannot imagine leaving the
industry altogether. I will continue to
be part of the sector but I’m looking
for the next thing that will challenge
and excite me,” Southam told Inside
Waste.
Southam has spent a little over 13
years at the helm but her time in the
sector goes way back, having worked
in the packaging and recycling industry
for about 16 years prior to becoming
WMAA’s chief.
As
Southcorp
Packaging’s
environmental
affairs
manager,
Southam bore witness to the packaging
sector’s evolution, most notably
its move from glass packaging and
recycling to PET bottles, and with it
the recycling challenges. Southam then
moved on within the company to deal
with broader environmental issues for
all of Southcorp’s products including
aluminium and steel cans, rigid plastics
and wine.
When Visy Industries acquired
Southcorp in 2001, Southam found
herself without a job after her role was
made redundant.
However, it turned out that she
was in the right place at the right
time as WMAA, which had been run
mainly by volunteers since its launch
in 1991, received funding from five of
its major members to hire an inaugural
CEO with an aim of growing the
association.
“An industry colleague sent me
the advertisement and said, this is
you! An opportunity to work from a
blank canvas. I already had a great
deal of experience in packaging and
recycling issues and would be working
with the same people in the various
government areas that I already had
great relationships with. The job was
quite a bit broader than recycling but
it was an area that I had always been
interested in,” Southam said.
Her first task was to set up a national
office, since at the time WMAA had
distinct state branches which worked
quite separately and independently or,
as Southam put it, “were not talking to
each other”.
“The state branches at the time
were not sophisticated enough to
have visions and goals and their
main aim was to network and share
information locally, so they did not
have a direct working relationship
with various state agencies as they
do today in most states,” she
explained.
“There was no collaboration between
the states so we centralised all the
administration and started linking the
branches to each other.
“We also set up state working groups
and linked them nationally to consider
national issues.”
Southam then began to work on an
area that she continues to hold dear to
her heart – professional certification,
training and development.
Southam (back row, second from left) gives her Malaysian counterparts a tour of Australia.
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At the launch of WMAA’s Electrical Safety Training course in Queensland.
“There are no particular qualifications
required for say running and managing
a landfill in Australia, and the other
waste associations in the developed
world I deal with are amazed that we do
not have these requirements. We must
be able to demonstrate the ongoing
professionalism of our members and
enhance their credibility. The unique
nature of the waste management
industry in Australia sees practitioners
operating and regulated by many
and varied government and industry
waste industry to embrace this,” she
explained.
“It’s one of WMAA’s goals but the
issue has always been where we find
the funds to develop the framework
and the scheme that will engage all
states and sectors.”
Southam may not have fulfilled
this one goal but she has started the
process.
Credit must be given to her for
developing a number of conferences
that brought the sector together so
“I cannot imagine leaving the industry altogether. I will continue
to be part of the sector but I’m looking for the next thing that will
challenge and excite me.” – Val Southam
requirements. To date, however,
there is no single standard,
certification, code of practice or
set of criteria that dictates a waste
management professional,” Southam
said.
Although – and Southam calls this
one of her “regrets” – WMAA does
not currently offer a professional
accreditation scheme for members,
it is because of Southam that the
association does offer membership
to individuals within company
memberships, not just companies.
“The idea of having a waste
certification scheme and ongoing
professional development was my
desire. But it’s a lengthy and expensive
process. It’s done in the US, the UK
and many other countries so perhaps
the time is right for the Australian
members could share information and
learn from each other. To this day,
WMAA’s National Landfill Conference,
launched in 2005, is still a flagship
event and it is through this conference
that WMAA is able to position itself in
a strong financial position.
When asked what she was most proud
of Southam replied without hesitation:
“WMAA’s A-ACAP project”.
The Australian Alternative Covers
Assessment Program began in 2005.
It was co-funded by the Australian
Research Council and the various
states to look at the applicability,
design, construction and maintenance
of phytocaps as a means of alternate
landfill covers in Australia based
on research findings and field data
from five A-ACAP sites across the
country.
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“There’s a place for waste to energy but I do acknowledge there
will always be a role for landfill. Even countries in Europe with mass
burn incineration still have bottom ash to dispose of in landfill, it is
just silly to suggest we will not need any landfills in the future.”
– Val Southam
The program, which ran in
collaboration with a number of
universities including the University
of Melbourne, culminated in the
publication of a phytocap guidance
manual in 2011.
“That was the first major project that
WMAA did and it is one of our biggest
ever projects,” Southam said.
“The A-ACAP project was a major
achievement and a great challenge
because we had to work with so many
stakeholders, collaborate with the
universities, industry, state and local
government to put it together.”
However, it was not all fun and
games and the program did face some
interesting challenges.
“There are some funny stories. For
example, after establishing one of
the sites with a significant number of
shrubs and trees, cows wandered in
through the fence and ate the plants,
resulting in a duplication of work and
costs. You just can’t budget for some
things,” Southam recounted.
“Then, when I was in Townsville for
the launch of the A-ACAP site with
Townsville Council, the mayor was
there too as I recall, there was an
unrelenting torrential downpour all day
and we were all plodding around in the
mud, with our umbrellas inside out and
totally useless, looking like drowned
rats. I could’ve won the wet t-shirt
contest that day!”
Looking to the future, Southam said
the sector was in for a few changes,
including the rise of waste to energy.
“There’s a place for waste to energy
but I do acknowledge there will always
be a role for landfill. Even countries
in Europe with mass burn incineration
still have bottom ash to dispose of
in landfill, it is just silly to suggest
we will not need any landfills in the
future. With product stewardship,
there’ll be a lot more materials getting
out of the waste stream of course,
but we’ve still got a long way to go,”
she said.
She noted that creating a level
I could have won the wet t-shirt contest: Southam
playing field would continue to be one
of the sector’s main challenges, but
encouraged those who work hard to
follow the rules to keep at it.
“There are opportunities for those
who are professional, those who
are doing the right thing to selfpromote and obtain a greater share
of business as customers insist on
higher standards. Of course, increased
fines and regulations from some state
agencies will help but these need to be
policed and enforced,” Southam said.
While Southam will be leaving WMAA
and has “a couple of things” that she’s
pursuing, she will never be too far
away and believes that the change in
leadership (she expects a new CEO to
come on board by June) spells exciting
times for the association, with “new
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Landfill //
A novel way to put
millions in your pocket
By Jacqueline Ong
COUNCILS spend a lot of money on
landfill peripherals such as leachate
and stormwater systems, says Reverse
Mining director Grant Lacey, but it
is improving the internal operating
system of a cell that could result in
millions of dollars in savings.
The company recently launched
its Reverse Mining package, an IPprotected IT tool that combines
open cut mining technologies with
landfill-based mathematics, known as
parallelepiped mathematics.
The tool utilises eight technologies,
including unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), 3-D imagery, GPS plotting
and computer-aided designed (CAD)
programming, to determine where
each cell’s control points are in order
to increase operational accuracy and
efficiency.
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Lacey said in his 24 years in the
industry he had not seen such a precise
system being employed in the sector,
and with the various changes underway
including levy increases, compliance
pressures and metaphorical changes,
he said gone were the days when
companies could plan what to do with
a cell over weeks and months. Now, it’s
all about planning internal landfill cell
operations to completion.
“We didn’t have landfills on the asset
management register five to seven
years ago but with gate pricing and
metaphorical changes, we’ve realised
that landfills are a critical part of this
register. We need to maintain this
resource and cannot waste it,” Lacey
said.
The process begins with Octi-Drone
UAVs surveying the cell’s various control
points, including daily cover as well as
leachate and stormwater management
Reverse Mining provides 3-D imagery of findings.
(Credit: Logan City Council Browns Plains landfill)
systems. While landfill surveying is not
a new concept, the difference lies in
the fact that UAVs are safer and more
accurate than hand surveying. The
critical part of the package, however, is
the use of parallelepiped mathematics,
which paint an accurate picture
of time, motion and best practice
for landfills. Operators are then
presented
with
results
within
48 hours of the survey in the form of
3D imagery.
“Landfill operators understand what
they have to do on a site but they plan
sporadically. So what we do is give them
all the figures they need, including
daily cover density rates and incoming
waste streams and use mathematics to
detail how long it takes to fill a cell,
how much we’ll make filling that cell
and how long the cell will last,” Lacey
explained.
“This helps councils identify where
they should spend their money and
they can make a direct decision to
buy the right operational machinery
required and alternative cover products
to improve cell density. The imagery
helps them see what they can and
should get.”
Operations budget forecasting can
be within 40% accuracy but Reverse
Mining has brought this figure down to
within 7% accuracy.
The tool is also able to better
manage methane gas extraction as well
as stormwater and leachate systems.
“Using the tool, we can improve
the amount of methane gas extracted
by eliminating non permeable layers
of daily cover. It improves leachate
reticulation
and
potential
gas
extraction yields, improving landfill
settlement,” Lacey said.
“We are also able to quantify
and segregate a greater portion of
stormwater from the leachate ponds
using a virtual hydrology program. After
virtual surveying, we run the figures
through the program and measure peak
rain events, proper drainage etc. to
only push the water that has hit waste
into the leachate process.
“Leachate management will only get
more expensive as compliance increases
so we don’t want to treat too much but
segregate onsite. The system is able to
divert up to 65% of stormwater away
from the leachate system by using
correct methods and machinery.”
Lacey also pointed to the “cost and
embarrassment” of going beyond a
landfill footprint when filling up a cell.
“Surveying takes so long. But
if we can plan these points using
GPS, operators will never have to
go outside of the landfill footprint.
It’s not only embarrassing but
also costly to rectify these errors plus
there are environmental issues to deal
with in moving waste in and out of a
cell.”
Logan City Council in South East
Queensland is the first council in
Australia to employ the system.
While the Reverse Mining package
costs anywhere between $25,000
and $100,000, the price tag pales
in comparison to the cost savings,
according to Lacey.
“We’ve developed spread sheets
proving that operating a cell correctly
can result in savings of $1.5 million
to $6 million annually site dependent
and this is on top of gas and leachate
reticulation savings,” Lacey said. iw
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// Landfill
From industrial wasteland
to community asset
By Geoff Ellis and Andrew Green
QUARRY Park, in the Melbourne
inner-city suburb of Footscray was a
significant legacy contaminated site
within the City of Maribyrnong, having
previously operated as a basalt quarry
until the 1970s and then as a landfill
used by Footscray through to 1989.
Spanning 8.4ha and up to 25m deep,
the landfill received industrial liquid
and solid waste and in the 1990s it was
converted into an open space parkland
now located within an environment with
houses, a school and the Maribyrnong
River surrounding the site.
Golder Associates has been assisting
the Maribyrnong City Council since
2004 with the transformation of the
site into a public asset and this has
been achieved through a risk-based
approach with long-term, risk-based
thinking and the development of
innovative engineering for groundwater
and landfill gas management.
Council commenced with an
investigation of groundwater and cap
conditions to identify and prioritise the
key issues. It then actively managed
those issues over a decade by:
• Developing a site management plan
to manage the risks, allowing the site
to continue to be safely used and
maintained;
• Implementing an active groundwater
monitoring program;
• Successfully constructing a light
non-aqueous phase liquids (LNAPL)
extraction system using a costeffective skimmer process to manage
the risks to groundwater; and
• Completing a landfill gas audit.
Since commissioning the LNAPL
extraction system in 2009, which
operates 24 hours a day, seven days a
week, the system has recovered 212
kilolitres of contaminated fluid as a mix
of LNAPL and groundwater. The waste
liquid is temporarily stored in a secured
compound onsite prior to removal by a
licensed waste disposal contractor.
Understanding the behaviour of
the LNAPL within the landfill and
geological formation was another key
element to its successful management.
Field tests were performed to ensure
an optimised management system was
developed and constructed.
The project has also led to the use of
a number of best practice engineering
technologies including:
• Human and ecological risk assessment
to establish robust and site-specific
trigger levels for contamination;
• Biofilters to treat landfill gas and
reduce or destroy greenhouse gases
produced; and
• High-level community consultation
to allow ongoing use of the park and
completion of in-house landfill gas
monitoring to support the gas audit.
The technical innovations used in
the project have been underpinned by a
consultative approach with a large range
of stakeholders including residents,
Quarry Park is now an asset to the
Footscray community.
the school, councillors, EPA, VicRoads,
Metropolitan Fire Brigade and other site
users. Extensive work with stakeholders
has resulted in no adverse community
response to the contamination or
rehabilitation works. Maribyrnong City
Council continues to actively manage
the former waste site, now parkland,
in consultation with the EPA and
surrounding occupiers. By fulfilling
regulatory requirements, satisfying
community expectations and achieving
environmental and health outcomes
within a limited council budget, the
team has ensured that a former waste
site has become an asset to the growing
inner-city community of Footscray.
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Recycling //
A first for Australian recycling
By Jacqueline Ong
RECYCLING street sweeping waste is
commonplace in Europe and the UK but
the technology to facilitate this has so
far been non-existent in the southern
hemisphere. Now, a partnership between
Melbourne-based Citywide and UK
recycling equipment supplier CDEnviro
is about to change the future of street
sweeping waste.
Together, they are constructing a
street sweeping recycling plant at
Citywide’s Dynon Road Waste Transport
Station and the facility is expected to
be operational in May.
“Citywide is building on technology
used in the UK, tailoring it to the
different types of waste collected
across street sweeping operations
in Australia. The entire plant and its
capabilities will remove contaminants
through a series of washing and
filtering processes the inputs must
undergo. The washing water used in
the process is continually cleaned
and recycled within the system, with
the ultimate goal of using any excess
water throughout other Citywide
operations,” Citywide group manager
of infrastructure and environmental
Matthew Whelan said.
Citywide expects to process 22,000
tonnes of materials collected from
sweeping and drainage operations.
These include washed sand, grit
and stone to be used in Citywide’s
asphalt production, ferrous metals
for recovery in metallurgical plants,
organic material, sludge-dewatered
fine materials and mixed landfill and
recyclable waste.
“The process focuses on a number
of key functions. First, it requires
attritional scrubbing to remove the
contamination from the surface of the
reusable materials, forced flotation
to create separation to clean inert
process and then further washing and
dewatering,” CDEnviro technical sales
manager Darren Eastwood explained.
“Second, the washing water needs
to be treated – both mechanically
and chemically to allow the recycled
water to be reused within the process.
The turn-key Gully Waste and Road
Sweeping Recycling solutions provided
by CDEnviro provide the potential to
recycle all incoming waste streams
to realise the maximum reduction in
waste to landfill.”
CDEnviro will work with its
Australian partner Wastech to carry out
maintenance and service contracts and
said the plant has been designed to
be “easily upgraded” to recover large
stone, which was not in the original
design remit.
“This is a common feature among
CDEnviro recycling plants in the UK.
“The modular design of the plant
provides the scope for a number of
upgrades to handle additional tonnage
and produce additional products,”
Eastwood said.
According to Citywide, once the
facility is up and running, the benefits
will be far reaching.
“The benefits include assisting
councils in achieving their waste
reduction targets under their own
environmental management plans;
reducing the negative impact on
the environment by deferring waste
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The project is the first stage of
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Human Resources //
Safety and pay standards
under review
By Jacqueline Ong
It HAS been five years since the
introduction of modern awards to
coincide with the introduction of
the new national workplace relations
scheme.
Now, the awards are up for review
by the Fair Work Commission (FWC)
and many interested stakeholders,
including the Waste Contractors and
Recyclers Association of NSW (WCRA)
and the Transport Workers Union
(TWU) have put forward their “wish
lists” seeking changes to the Waste
Management Award 2010.
In addition to specifically reviewing
the Waste Management Award, the
FWC review also aims to address
issues common to many other awards
including annual leave, apprentice
conditions, award flexibility and parttime employment.
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Although the review process was first
listed before the FWC on December 2,
2014, Hunt and Hunt Lawyers special
counsel Martin Dunne told delegates at
a WCRA breakfast briefing earlier this
month that an outcome should not be
expected anytime soon.
“This process is unlikely to be
speedy. In fact, it has been suggested
that the review will be completed in
the next year. We’ll just have to wait
and see,” Dunne said.
WCRA calls for change
One of the things WCRA believes the
award needs is a new training clause.
At present the rate paid to an employee
who attends training is subject to
overtime, penalty and weekend pay
rates.
WCRA has proposed that when
required to attend an approved training
course by their employer, employees
should be paid at an ordinary rate of
pay, capped at 24 hours per annum.
Additionally, these training courses
must be delivered by a registered
training organisation (RTO) and the
employee must be given 14 days notice
prior to the training session.
“This proposal is highly optimistic,
however as there is general employer
support, there is no harm in asking,”
Dunne said.
When it comes to industry
allowances, WCRA said it received
“regular enquiries and complaints”
from members around the difficulty
for ordinary employers and employees
to determine payment obligations
without having to do “complicated and
confusing calculations”.
Just how convoluted is this process?
Essentially, employers are first required
to refer to clause 19 for a list of
minimum weekly wages prescribed
Review likely to be completed in 2016: Dunne
for the classification in which their
employees fall under, depending on
whether their employee is an adult or
a junior.
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In the case of the latter, employees
are paid a percentage – between 70%
and 100% – of the relevant adult
minimum wage.
However, for casual employees,
clause 14.5 stipulates that “in addition
to normal overtime rates, a casual
employee, while working overtime
or outside ordinary hours, shall be
paid on an hourly basis 138th of the
relevant minimum wage prescribed by
the award, plus 10% of ordinary time
earnings for the work performed”.
On top of all of that, the industry
allowance must be added, which again
varies across classifications.
This process firstly involves reference
to clause 20.6, then to clause 3 and
two further calculations are required
before the true minimum wage is
uncovered.
To simplify the process, WCRA
has sought the inclusion of a table
identifying the rates payable to casual
and permanent employees, one that
easily identifies the rate payable for
ordinary, time and a half and double
time for each classification, including
the industry allowance.
In line with its submission to the
Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal,
which has embarked on an inquiry
into the sector (more on page 36),
WCRA has used the awards review as
a platform to push for change around
drivers’ work hours.
“The safest and most productive
times for a driver to collect waste
are the early hours of the morning,”
WCRA said.
Thus, it is urging the FWC to
increase the span of ordinary hours,
currently set at 4am to 5pm, to 2am
to 5pm.
TWU advocates certainty
As some of the TWU’s members work
in the domain of waste management,
predominantly in the waste collection
and transport field, the union has also
put forward changes to this award.
Of particular interest is its push
for the award to ensure greater
certainty for waste workers in their
employment.
Currently, clause 11.2 stipulates
that “at the time of engagement, an
employer will inform each employee
in writing of the terms of their
engagement, and in particular, whether
they are to be full-time, part-time
or casual. Such decision will then
be recorded in the time and wages
record.”
The TWU wants this clause to go one
step further by requiring employers
to include the employee’s award
classification from the very outset,
saying that doing so would assist the
National Employment Standards and
the award to operate more effectively
and would aid in establishing related
conditions, such as remuneration.
Last year, clause 22, which continued
workers entitlements to accident pay
that existed under previous federal or
state awards, ceased to operate.
The TWU is now seeking the inclusion
of a new clause to require an employer
to “make up” the difference between
the workers compensation benefits
paid to an employee and the amount
that they would have been paid had
for waste workers, the TWU has
called for the inclusion of a new
clause pertaining to crib time, which
also seeks to reinstate terms of the
Transport Workers (Refuse, Recycling
and Waste Management Award).
In essence, it wants all shift workers
on afternoon or night shift to be
entitled to a paid crib time of 20
minutes.
Meanwhile, an employee performing
shift work who works overtime should
be allowed crib time of 20 minutes
without deduction of pay after each
four hours of overtime worked, if the
employee continues to work after such
crib time.
WCRA has proposed that when required to attend an approved
training course by their employer, employees should be paid at
an ordinary rate of pay, capped at 24 hours per annum.
they been on personal leave, for a
maximum period of 52 weeks from the
date of the injury.
This proposed obligation on an
employer for the “make up” pay
will continue even if the worker is
terminated.
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created.
“The review of the Waste Management
Award is next listed for directions
in the FWC on March 27, 2015.
Employers should stay tuned for further
developments,” Dunne concluded. iw
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Inquiry //
Council mandated collection start
times are the focus of an inquiry.
Waste sector inquiry begins,
start times in the spotlight
By Jacqueline Ong
What started out as a NSW-centered
submission to the Road Safety Tribunal’s
inquiry into the waste management
sector has evolved into a deep dive into
transportation issues across the nation.
Earlier this year, the Tribunal, which
was developed about three years ago
after campaigning by the Transport
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Workers Union, announced it would
begin an inquiry into the sector as part
of its third annual work program.
McCabes lawyers principal Maurice
Baroni told members who attended
a Waste Contractors & Recyclers
Association (WCRA) breakfast briefing
in March that the association saw
this as an opportunity to include a
submission.
“At that stage, the Tribunal was
simply identifying areas that it
had some interest in and called for
submissions to be made on whether
it should form the third work group.
WCRA made a submission and hence
the inquiry was formalised,” Baroni
said.
“The submission focuses on the role
of councils in stipulating start times
and we identified the problems and
noted that WCRA is NSW-based and
represents the interests in the state.
“But at a conference held in
Melbourne in February chaired by the
Tribunal, a view was formed that this
was a national issue.
“So the Tribunal has embarked on a
process and various communications
have been made with national
operators, councils and associations.
It’s likely the inquiry will have a large
range of participants.”
In essence, the Tribunal is seeking
submissions on issues, incentives and
pressures or practices affecting safety
and fairness that may be improved
by a road safety remuneration order
covering relevant employee and/or
contractor road transport drivers, their
employers or hirers, and participants in
the supply chain in relation to those
road transport drivers.
NSW has 152 councils and there
are a variety of different policies and
approvals, which WCRA said affected
waste management collection times.
“These local government mandated
collection times make it difficult for
contractors to plan and structure
collection runs, to avoid busy times
on major roads, shopping centres and
around school zones,” WCRA executive
director Tony Khoury said.
“Despite the existence of ‘chain of
responsibility’ laws, consequential
regulations and domestic codes
of practice issued by WorkCover
NSW, various councils continue to
mandate collection times that pose
serious concerns for waste collection
drivers and participants in the waste
management supply chain with
respect to the management of fatigue,
productivity and cost pressures.”
Khoury said WCRA’s submission
highlighted a number of concerns that
have arisen because of these start
times, including:
• Fatigue for both employee and
owner drivers as a consequence of
significant delays being experienced
due to traffic congestion, which is
a direct result of “mandated start
times” imposed by councils;
• Stress and fatigue for both employee
and owner drivers as a consequence
of drivers having to operate in peak
traffic periods;
•The risk of accidents by heavy waste
management collection vehicles that
are forced to operate during times of
peak traffic and pedestrian activity;
and
•The risks to workers from traffic
and members of the public when
collecting waste during higher
volume traffic periods.
“It is the very strong view of WCRA
that the collection of waste and
recyclables should be undertaken at
times when it is safest for drivers,
pedestrians, school children, motorists
and the local community. This cannot
happen when collection times are
mandated by local government,”
Khoury said.
Baroni said WCRA’s submission will
help the Tribunal come up with a view
that there is indeed a problem that
needs to be dealt with.
“The Tribunal will potentially allow
us to achieve some important things, in
particular how councils will determine
their future start times. The other part
of what we’re doing is putting together
draft orders, which are things that
must be done,” Baroni said.
“We want to try to maintain some
control over that and its thrust is that
you can’t stipulate a start time, and if
you do, you must have regard to the
following matters – congestion, school
zones, traffic areas where you can and
can’t stop.
“It can’t simply be a tick the box
exercise. It must be demonstrable and
a breach of those orders means that
the council could be prosecuted. In
fact, anyone who breaches it could
be prosecuted. So it has quite some
teeth.”
“I don’t know what people are going
to say about WCRA’s submission but
one would assume that some councils
will raise jurisdictional objections,”
Baroni added.
The inquiry is headed by Tribunal
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Paul Ryan and the sector should expect
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Tenders //
A best practice guide
to drafting, issuing and
evaluating tenders
By Katherine Driscoll
IN the February issue of Inside Waste,
Impact Environmental Consulting’s
Katherine Driscoll detailed the
preliminary steps of the tendering
process. Now, in part two of a
three-part best practice guide to waste
collection services tendering, Driscoll
explores the drafting, issuing and
evaluation of tenders.
Drafting tender documents
In
drafting
tender
documents,
councils need to include instructions
and conditions regarding how they
want to receive tenders. Also, tender
documents need to be drafted to
ensure that councils gain tenders
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for exactly what is required. Councils
should draft documents that carefully
reflect strategic aims; the services
sought; the service standards expected;
and the framework for the ongoing
management of the contract.
Councils differ in their approach.
Some provide detailed specifications
on how they expect a range of services
to be performed while others take the
approach that the service providers
are the experts and can demonstrate
how they will go about the waste
collections. If councils want to have
a strong influence on the way services
are delivered the specifications
will, typically, be more detailed, i.e.
prescriptive versus performance-based.
Councils need to think about how
their approach will impact on the
evaluation of the tenders. If you leave
everything to the contractors and
find that the tender does not reflect
a service you are comfortable with, it
can be difficult to fairly evaluate or
accept a tender.
Some examples:
- Vehicle body sizes;
- Whether new bins are required;
- Staffing levels;
- Collection methodologies; and
- Education.
In the instance of vehicles, it is worth
noting that larger bodies can be seen
as a negative in some council areas, so
it may be important to specify the use
of smaller bodies. After all, contractors
will look for efficiencies and all
tenderers may nominate large vehicles,
which may not suit the council.
One outcome that can present
problems is that a less expensive tender
(with larger body capacity) is compared
to a tender based on smaller body sizes
but, due to the lower efficiency, is
more expensive to council.
Wherever council has requirements
that don’t want to be compromised,
these ought to be specified. This
allows for a level playing field for
tenderers. But it can be a mistake to
over-specify. If a council has a clear
strategic direction it may be better to
set aims, measures for compliance or
achieving standards – allowing
service providers to present a tender
accordingly.
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Thinking this through prior to
drafting the specifications is essential.
It is difficult to justify that a contractor
has lost a tender because the council
sought something specific, which was
not specified! Likewise, where the
council is requiring services to be
delivered in a way that is inconsistent
with best practice, tenderers see this as
a risk and price their bids accordingly.
The drafting of the tender itself should
not be a barrier to contractors. A onesize-fits-all tender is not the best way
for councils to seek collection services.
Careful planning and drafting of
tenders should not be underestimated.
Issuing the tender
The next step is to issue the tender.
Waste collection tenders are almost
universally issued via well-developed
electronic tendering systems.
Through these, councils can gauge
the interest in the tender and receive
and answer questions via online
forums, as well as receive tenders. Most
contractors are familiar with and prefer
the electronic systems. Occasionally a
council will issue hardcopy tenders over
the front office desk. It is important to
ensure adequate systems are in place
for managing the tender from the
issuing to the close of tenders.
Adequate time should be given to
contractors to prepare a submission.
While minimum tendering periods
are prescribed in regulations, these
are insufficient. It is in council’s best
interest to allow tenderers to adequately
consider, research and understand what
the tender requires. A shorter tender
period can favour the incumbent.
Tender briefings for prospective
tenderers are also a good way to inform
tenderers of the services and aspects
important to council.
The tender period should be carefully
managed in accordance with wellconsidered and understood probity
parameters – fair and consistent
treatment for all tenderers is essential
to the process.
Councils need to understand that
contractors have well developed
strategic tactics. The commercial
environment in which contractors
operate is sometimes a little foreign
to councils. Often questions are asked
for a reason – to elucidate information
or to highlight features of the services
that are not obvious. Councils can
sometimes
unwittingly
provide
information that can either strengthen
the position of the incumbent
contractor or increase uncertainty for
other tenderers.
As far as possible, the tender
period should allow for interaction
and correspondence to enhance the
procurement process. Careful drafting
of addendums is important to ensure
the process is controlled by council
and not by tenderers. This sets council
up for a competitive tender and best
possible tender result.
Closing the tender is usually
managed by the electronic cut-off time.
Councils should remember to allow
questions until a nominated time, for
example five days prior to the closing
time.
A method for opening the tenders
needs to be followed. A tender opening
report is usually prepared and notices
issued in accordance with the relevant
regulation. The ongoing security of the
tenders must be maintained throughout
the evaluation process.
Evaluating tenders
This is a complex and important
step in the procurement process and
it is essential that the format and
methodology for evaluating tenders be
established.
An evaluation plan should be
adopted by council setting out the
protocols and processes to be adhered
to in the evaluation of tenders –
assessment criteria; scoring scales and
methodologies; and order of evaluation
steps for both the non-price and price
submissions need to be well understood
prior to the tenders being opened.
A tender evaluation panel needs to
be established. Usually councils appoint
key staff to these panels. Given the
value of these contracts, it is advisable
to include an executive staff member,
even as an observer. The evaluation of
tenders requires a concentrated and
dedicated allocation of time.
Submitting a tender costs time and
money and a proper and fair reviewing
of tenders must be undertaken.
Councils also need to consider the
suitability of panel members. Thought
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ought to be given to the expertise
each panel member brings and the
proficiency needed to score these
complex submissions. One approach is
to appoint a waste staff member from
a neighbouring council.
Increasingly, independent probity
advisors are being appointed to
oversee the evaluation of waste
collection tenders to provide councils
with an added level of process security.
A probity plan can be developed.
Declarations of independence and
confidentiality are usually given
by panel members. Any conflict of
interest must be managed to provide
transparency to the process.
The first step in the evaluation
process is to undertake an initial
examination of the tenders received
in order to assess the conformity of
the submissions. The evaluation plan
should set out clearly the processes
for managing non-conforming tenders.
A conformity report can record the
conforming tenders that can be
evaluated, and any non-conforming
tenders that will need to be dealt with
in accordance with the evaluation plan.
Next, a detailed review of the
tenders is undertaken. Scoring scales
and reference material are often used
to allow for fair comparison of the
various criteria – linking particular
parts of the tender submissions so as
to ensure that each tender receives the
same attention and the panel is acting
consistently.
Communicating with contractors at
this stage can help the evaluation panel
understand the tenders and confirm
that contractors have interpreted the
request for tender (RFT) appropriately.
Issuing clarifications and receiving
responses need to be carefully managed
as these communications usually
become part of the eventual contract.
An evaluation plan should allow
for a number of stages of evaluation
and time should be allowed to reconvene evaluation panels following
any clarification in order to allow for a
re-consideration of scores if necessary.
One important point in the
evaluation is to ensure that the panel
sets out a clear methodology for
converting prices into scores that can
be weighted. The evaluation of prices
should have no subjective component.
The methodology for giving prices a
score is perhaps the most crucial step
in the evaluation and needs to be
logical.
The evaluation panel is usually charged
with the responsibility of presenting
a tender evaluation report to council,
which includes recommended council
resolutions that reflect the procurement
process. Council resolutions are the
final step in the procurement process
and need to accurately reflect what
the council’s intentions are i.e.
what council will be contracting for.
Importantly, the resolutions need
to be made in accordance with the
relevant tendering regulation. It is not
unheard of for an entire procurement
process to be upset by an ill-drafted
resolution!
In the June issue: Executing
contracts and ongoing contract
management.
Katherine Driscoll is Impact
Environmental Consulting’s senior
consultant and her expertise lies
in managing tender processes for
waste services. Contact: katherine@
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Alternative Waste Treatment //
Bioenergy – why it’s
worked for one council
By Jacqueline Ong
IT’S been about 12 months since the
Pyrenees Shire Council in western
Victoria embarked on a bioenergy trial
funded by the state government and
the 100kW wood chip boiler, installed
at the Beaufort Hospital to take over
most of the heating load from the
existing LPG system has resulted in
more than $30,000 in LPG cost savings.
The Regional Bioenergy Project came
out of a perceived need to establish
a demonstration project for bioenergy
and thanks to funding through the state
government’s Victorian Adaptation and
Sustainability Partnership, the council
was able to purchase a top-of-the-line
Hargassner boiler with all the bells
and whistles supplied by New Zealandbased Living Energy.
“It’s fully automatic and has a range
of features such as Lambda-Hatronic
combustion control. It’s a very efficient
boiler,” project manager Daryl Scherger
said.
“The boiler also requires minimal
maintenance, adding up to about one
person a day a month. It requires a
small amount of cleaning and ash
removal on a weekly or fortnightly
basis and the maintenance manager
monitors the fuel levels once or twice
a week.”
Scherger said the project has gone
well, receiving community support,
particularly as the boiler has been a
“good neighbour” emitting no smoke
or noise. One of the only challenges
the council faced was finding an
appropriate boiler.
“When we first started, the biggest
issue was that there were no boiler
suppliers or installers of that type of
boiler in Australia. So we were really
starting from scratch,” he said.
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“I was able to find a potential
supplier in New Zealand and we were
lucky that our local plumber was willing
to come onboard and he was happy to
work with the supplier. It really was a
learning experience for everyone.
Scherger noted that while there were
a few biomass boilers installed across
Australia, particularly in saw and
sugarcane mills, the type of boilers the
council was after were uncommon.
“The gap we were dealing with was
that there were companies, which
would supply small domestic boilers
and companies supplying massive
megawatt boilers. There was nobody
in Australia supplying the 50 to 500kW
range, which is the sort of size a council
would look at,” Scherger explained.
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into place.
“We had no problems with feedstock.
The local sawmill produces almost 10
times as much chip as we were using
and they chipped, processed and dried
the sawmill waste to bring it up to
a suitable standard for the boiler,”
Scherger said.
Additionally, being an automatic
system meant it could function with
little monitoring from the council and
hospital.
“Once the boiler senses a demand,
it automatically feeds in wood chips
into the burning chamber. There’s an
automatic ignition system that consists
of a heat gun, which heats the chips in
the chamber up to over 400 degrees.
A draft fan then activates and blows
on the hot coals to keep them burning
and as the boiler heats up more fuel, it
automatically put into the combustion
chamber and it monitors that through
the electronic system to make sure
there’s enough fuels constantly being
fed to ensure it’s burning properly. It
automatically monitors the flue gases
to make sure combustion’s occurring
properly. The boiler works out how
much fuel it needs to meet the heating
demand and it’ll continue working and
putting in fuel till it senses that there’s
no more demand for heat and it cuts
the fuel back. If there’s no demand for
a long period of time, it then shuts
down.”
Over the course of 12 months, the
boiler, which was housed in a 12m
shipping container, processed 90
tonnes of waste wood chip sourced
from a local saw mill. While the cost of
the boiler – $530,000 – was covered by
the state government grant, there were
other running costs, including labour
and feedstock, all of which added up to
$15,000 for the year.
The Beaufort Hospital project is the
first of its kind in a regional Victorian
public institution and has resulted in a
net saving of $36,000 in LPG costs. If
the boiler had not been funded by the
government, Scherger projected a 12year payback on its cost.
“Councils should consider bioenergy,
particularly if they’ve got the suitable
fuels and the obvious ones for most
councils are timber or green waste. The
first thing they need to do is decide
what fuel they’re going to use, then the
type of boiler,” Scherger advised.
“I think once more systems are in
place and proven, more councils will
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“The main drivers for offering this
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said.
A large horizontal wood grinder on
tracks, the B-66TD has been designed
to maximise uptime and end product
control through the use of a domed slat
in-feed; gap-less in-feed transition,
patented slab ramp adjustable shear
plane, concentric power-feed lift
with internal radial piston drive and
replaceable mount rotor.
It also comes with a screen
installation system and optional
features, such as crawler tracks with
a highway transport dolly as well as
biomass rotors.
The B-66TD is able to transform a
broad range of raw materials, including
railroad ties, slab wood, asphalt roofing
shingles, wood chip and whole trees
into engineered fibre commodities.
“The B-66TD starts at 700hp and
goes up to 950hp and it has its own
detachable transport dolly,” Kenny said.
“Rotochopper and our engineers
have developed a fully compliant road
unit that has been operational on
Australian roads since February this
year. This machine has all the standard
features with a cost saving advantage
of not having to use a low loader to
transport to and from destinations.”
The EC-66
Meanwhile, the EC-66 stationary
electric horizontal wood grinder, set to
launch in Australia in May, promises to
improve cost effectiveness.
“Traditionally, slow speed shredding
equipment has been used to process
construction and demolition and
commercial and industrial waste,
pallets, etc. With the Rotochopper
high-speed high volume machine,
production rates can be increased
very cost effectively with the added
advantage of possible entry into new
markets such as coloured mulch or
animal bedding. These were previously
not achievable with other types of
equipment,” Kenny explained.
The EC-66’s features include a steel
slat in-feed conveyor, gap-less in
feed transition, patented slab ramp
adjustable shear plane, hydraulic screen
installation with shear pin protection,
and aggressive power feed roller with
serrated traction plates.
JDM offers a range of rotor and tooth
styles to match raw materials and end
product needs as well as a choice of
discharge conveyor style to meet
product handling preferences.
Optional
features
include
a
simultaneous grind and colour system
and an asphalt shingle grinding
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package.
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// Hazardous Waste
A safer way to transport batteries
By Jacqueline Ong
WHAT started as an act of kindness
has turned into an invention that
may transform the way toxic waste,
including used lead batteries, is
transported.
When an “old, unkempt looking
stranger” who said his utility was
stolen and he needed to pick up “some
things” approached UNISEG founder
and managing director Fenton Goddard
near his home in Como, WA, Goddard
decided to help him out. It turned out
that these “things” were in fact used
lead batteries.
“He had me driving along and
stopping and he would run into homes
and come out with old car batteries.
He explained that there was really good
money collecting old batteries people
actually wanted removed for free and
selling them to scrap metal dealers,”
Goddard recounted.
“So off we went and collected around
$200 worth of batteries in an hour. Not
a bad hourly rate, I figured!”
About six months passed before
Goddard had an epiphany that the
transportation and storage of used
lead acid batteries was neither
safe nor efficient and a year later,
Uniseg developed the specification
for a purpose designed storage and
transportation pallet.
In the early days, UNISEG built a
number of composite steel and plastic
prototypes and tried them out “in the
real world”.
“Storage was quite simple. The
regulations called for a bunded (liquid
retaining) pallet and dangerous goods
load capacity of one tonne. It weighs
100kg and stands at 1260mm high
by 1050mm wide and 1150mm long.
When flat packed for reverse logistics,
it shrinks to a height of 480mm.
It has also been certified for
collection of used lead acid batteries
under the Australian Dangerous Goods
Code 7 and United Nations Model
Regulations for Transport of Dangerous
Goods 18th Revision for the Transport
of used lead acid batteries (UN2794).
Additionally, the first production
pallets will undergo certification for use
as a segregation box and combination
intermediate bulk container.
Goddard said the pallet, with its
various features, is for “everyone” in
the supply chain.
“The pallet meets the specific
requirements of everyone in the supply
chain, from used battery generators
to transport companies and equally
important, it is suitable for end-oflife battery re-processors who turn old
batteries into new ingot quality lead to
make new batteries,” Goddard said.
“Our main clients to date include scrap
metal yards, automotive workshops,
companies, local government and new
battery sales companies.”
Goddard said regulation compliance
was a key reason for the interest in the
pallet, noting that safety continues to
be a big driver. However, he pointed
to the scrap metal industry, which
currently collects most of the used lead
batteries, and said it saw the pallet as
a means to increase their profits.
“They seem attracted by the
opportunity to significantly increase
their profit margins by selling directly
“The pallet meets the specific requirements of everyone in
the supply chain, from used battery generators to transport
companies and equally important, it is suitable for end-of-life
battery re-processors.” – UNISEG founder and managing director Fenton Goddard
signage, but transportation was a lot
harder,” Goddard said.
UNISEG decided to create a fully
enclosed container with signage
as well as bunding for storage but
went one step further by developing
a collapsible pallet to improve the
efficiency of reverse logistics, that is,
pallets returning empty.
The pallet is also “extremely strong”,
acid proof and can be front loaded
to meet occupational health and
safety requirements for loading heavy
batteries by hand.
Now ready for production, the
pallet has a volume of 850 litres, a
bunded capacity of 25 litres and a
to the used battery reprocessors
and by-pass the large scrap metal
aggregators,” Goddard said.
When asked about cost, Goddard
said price should not be the main
consideration.
“Safety, environmental sustainability
and regulation compliance should be
the issue,” Goddard said.
“However, return on investment
needs to be addressed. The very
significant efficiency benefits of our
product will deliver an acceptable ROI
for even the very lowest volume used
battery generators. After all, this is
a waste stream that is actually worth
something. For some applications,
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safety will negate the price point
issue.”
Although mixed dry cell batteries
are of particular interest to Goddard,
given the historically poor performance
record of managing this stream of waste
in an environmentally sustainable
manner, UNISEG may look at other
applications.
“Very recently we had significant
interest in the pallet for medical
and pharmaceutical waste, class 3
flammable liquids, liquid and solid
poisons and even as a storage device
for diet food for animals!
“We will be supplying everything
from pallet washing machines and
pallet forklift attachments to the
reprocessors to cloud based data
management services for our RF (radio
frequency) meshing pallet tracking
technology that we are imbedding in
each pallet.
“Incidentally, we think this feature
alone is a game changer for the
transport industry. The internet of
things has definitely arrived,” Goddard
iw
said.
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Collection //
Superior Pak goes big with Pegasus
The new Pegasus can pack 35 tonnes
of waste but is only 900mm longer.
By Jacqueline Ong
SUPERIOR Pak has launched a
waste collection and compaction
for the customer who wants a
extra capacity and despite its
new
body
little
size,
the 10-wheeler “works perfectly” in
dense cities, says Watts Waste’s Dennis
Kacunic.
Launched in March, the 10x4, 35cm³
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to the previous 31cm³ model as well as
an additional 4cm³ of waste capacity.
NSW waste management company
Watts Waste played a role in the
development of the new Pegasus 35FL
and Kacunic said the idea to pack
more waste into the body stemmed
from having to deal with geographical
challenges.
“I had an idea to put this truck on
the road because the Northern Beaches
is at least an hour and a half away from
the tip, which is as far as Auburn or
Eastern Creek,” Kacunic said.
“Warren Edwards, the owner of Watts
Waste and I had a chat and we came
up with the idea to build a bigger
body with Superior Pak and the rest is
history.”
Kacunic said that on top of its size,
the Pegasus 35FL has a number of new
features, some of which “have never
been done before”.
It includes improvements such as
a full width “easy cleaning” front of
body slurry slump and durable selflubricating poly composite blade
runners, which Superior Pak said would
make servicing quicker, easier and
cheaper.
Kacunic also wanted adjustments
made to the way the arms worked,
specifically to make them go faster
using the onboard computer system.
“The old model used to do 45
seconds and now, they go up and down
in 25 seconds.
“When you’re lifting 100 to 200 bins
a day, it all adds up,” Kacunic said.
“The comb lifter on the front
enables the truck to pick up 240-litre,
660-litre and 1100-litre bins. This is a
pretty new thing for front lift bodies,”
Kacunic added.
“What I also wanted to do was reduce
work cover issues especially with the
driver jumping in and out of the cab all
the time. So we asked for the lifter to
be remote controlled and this is a first.
Now when we get out of the truck, we
stay out of the truck and empty it using
a handheld remote control.
“I’m doing some research and this
body could be the first 10 by 4 front
lift in the world.”
Impressively, despite being able to
pack on more waste – 35 tonnes (gross)
compared to 27.5t in an 8 by 4 – the
new body is only 900mm longer.
The extra length led to some initial
concern that the truck would not be
able get into tight access areas, a
common problem in dense metropolitan
cities.
“Our concern was how it was going
to get into access areas and it hasn’t
been a problem. In fact, it actually
picks up waste from the centre of the
CBD,” Kacunic said.
“It is big but the manoeuvrability
of the Isuzu FYX 2500 cab chassis and
its turning circles have proven to be
very good. Everything has worked
perfectly.”
According to Kacunic, Watts Waste
uses its trucks 24 hours a day Mondays
to Fridays, 12 hours on Saturdays and
about eight hours on Sundays.
With the new Pegasus, the company
has been able make fewer trips to
the landfill. It has also taken one
rear lifter off the road and it now is
contemplating buying a second.
“We’re looking at taking our other
eight by four off the road since we can
do both rear and front lifts with this
one new truck.
“We’re going to monitor the new
body over the next few months but
buying another one is on the cards,”
Kacunic said.
“At the moment, we’re working on
run changes and while I don’t have
cost saving figures in front of me, the
improved efficiencies are very obvious.”
“Fuel cost has gone up by about 5%
because the body is bigger and heavier
but we’ve also taken one whole truck
off the road.”
Kacunic believes other waste
operators will be watching the new
body closely and said the bigger truck
will benefit some, depending on where
they operate.
“If you’re operating in Auburn or
Silverwater then even an eight-wheeler
is an overkill because you’re tipping
just around the corner.
“You’ll probably want a six by four.
But we have to drive and hour and a
half one-way to get to the tip, which is
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Hopper capacity: 1.3m3
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Hopper capacity: 660 litres
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Product name:
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Description: Stationary blade
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Drive: Hydraulic cylinder 15kW power unit
Compaction force: Over 40t
Hopper capacity: Manufactured to suit specific requirements
Clear top opening: 1600mm x 1200mm
Cycle time: 45 seconds
Throughput: 220cm3/hr
Connects to: full range of waste bins from 4cm3 to transfer trailers
Base price: $40,000 plus GST
More: Daniel McHugh – 02 9756 3756 or info@garwoodinternational.com.au
Dimensions: 23m3, 6800mm x
2350mm
Weight: Approximately 4t
Description: Portapac capacities8-25m3. Binlifter can be fitted
to packer or remote mounted.
Hydraulics and electrics mounted to
packer. Bissalloy and Hardox wear plates used in all necessary areas.
Drive: Hydraulic cylinder, 3kW power unit 415V
Compaction force: Over 40t. Hopper Capacity: Approximately 5m3
Clear top opening: 2100mm x 1630mm
Cycle time: 30 sec. Throughput: 175m3/hr
Connects to: Dyno and Hook loader units
Base price: From $32,000 + GST
More: Daniel McHugh – 02 9756 3754 or info@garwoodinternational.
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Garwood
Stationary Packer SK866
SP1500
Description: Compacts general
and semi wet waste into 660
MGBs and bales cardboard and
plastic in the one machine
Dimensions: H 2265 x W 2550 x
D 920mm
Drive: Hydraulic
Compaction force: 3t
Hopper capacity: 660 MGB /
500 x 700
Clear top opening: Yes, top loading
Cycle time: 25 seconds
Throughput: 4:1 to 8:1
Connects to: 240V
Base price: P.O.A.
More: 03 9360 4330 / 0418 310 831 or www.orwak.com.au
Description: Stationary push blade
compactor specifically designed
for handling both cardboard and
general waste streams
Drive: 11kW Powerpack – remote or
integrated options
Compaction force: 24.6t
Hopper capacity: Multiple options
available depending on application
Clear top opening: 1500mm x
1420mm
Cycle time: 60 seconds
Throughput: 100m3 per hour
Connects to: 18-33m3 bin
Base price: P.O.A.
More: Superior Pak – 1800 013 232 or www.superiorpak.com.au
Superior Pak Pty Ltd
5070 Combi Multichamber
Bollegraaf Maxipack-series
ArnoBrik Swarf Briquetting Press
Description: Range of packaging presses
to compress short-fibre materials into
compact bales, which can be packed into
bags (plastic or paper). Available in different
sizes; as horizontal or vertical models.
Options: Hydraulic pre-press flap, bagging
system and weighing installation.
Drive: Hydraulic operation
Compaction force: 4-40t, depending on
model
Clear top opening: 380 x 400 up to 920 x
1200mm, depending on model
Cycle time: Depending on model
Throughput: 60 - 360 bales per hour - depend on model.
Connects to: Bagging systems, etc.
Base price: P.O.A.
More: 0450 53 41 49 / +31 (0)596 65 43 33, s.staps@bollegraaf.com or
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Description: Offered with three
different filling variants according
to the free flowing properties of the
material. Produced in either two or
three ram variants, the solid welded
construction are designed for single
or continuous operation. Ideal for
compacting all types of metals, swarfs
and powders onto briquettes.
Drive: Electro/hydraulic
Compaction force: 760 kN up to 12500 kN
Briquette size: 50mm up to 250mm diameter.
Cycle time: 10 seconds
Throughput: 300kg/hr up to 14t/hr
Auxiliary equipment: Depending on arrangement and use, bunker
systems, screw conveyers, dosing and weighing systems can also be
supplied. Base price: P.O.A.
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Garwood International
Hyva Pacific P/L
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Bergmann alpha pack bin compactor
Description: These compactor
bins enable even wet waste to be
disposed of without damaging
the machine due to a unique
“pendulum” compaction system.
Non-stop operation is made
possible with a “throw-over”
compaction blade system that
transfers waste build up behind the
compaction head to the face of the
compaction head for the next cycle.
Drive: 5.5kW
Hopper capacity: up to 1800mm x 1280mm
Cycle time: 30 seconds
Base price: P.O.A
More: 1800 441 100 or www.wasteinitiatives.com
Description: This integrated
one-level hydraulic aggregate
compaction system, with
horizontal packer blade and throwover blade, can be continuously
fed with material. An inlet opening
is available in every position of the
piston, with no blocking during
forward cycle. It features a side
hinged discharge door with triple locking device, a plastic roller at the
rear, an oil deficiency switch and a central rainwater drain.
Drive: 5.5kW
Hopper capacity: 14-23m3
Cycle time: 70 seconds
Base price: P.O.A
More: 1800 441 100 or www.wasteinitiatives.com
Waste Initiatives
Bergmann mobile pack bin compactor
PZZ crusher & SPN-15 auger combination
T1000 transportable compactor
Description: Fit over 8t of
cardboard in a 31###m3###
bin with this crusher and auger
combination, designed for
cardboard pallets, flat sheets and
difficult recyclable waste.
Drive: Direct gear driven with 15kW
motor
Compaction force: 9550 Nm Torque/Auger
Hopper capacity: 1.5-2.5m3
Clear top opening: 1225 x 1380mm
Cycle time: Continuous
Throughput: 70m3/hr
Connects to: 15-40m3bin
Base price: P.O.A
More: 1800 465 465 or www.wastech.com.au
Description: The T1000
transportable compactor is
designed for heavy and rapid
loading of wet and food type
wastes. An advanced energy
saving power pack is also
available.
Drive: 5.5kW electric motor
Compaction force: 196 kPa
Hopper capacity: 1.5-2.5m3
Clear top opening: 1500 x 1000 mm
Cycle time: 40 seconds
Throughput: 90m3/h
Connects to: 15-40 bin
Base price: P.O.A
More: 1800 465 465 or www.wastech.com.au
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Bollegraaf Recycling Solutions
Description: Top loading for continuous
baling, optional small chamber attachment
for dual baling.
Dimensions: H 2300mm, W 1950, D 1140
Weight: 1700kg
Throughput: 3 bales / hour
Bale size/weight: 750 * 750 * 1000 – 175
– 200kg
Operation: Manual or automatic operation
Force: 10,500kg
Cycle time: 28 seconds
Base price: P.O.A.
More: 1800 888 403, 02 6734 5403, sales@autobaler.com.au or
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Bollegraaf SA-series (four models)
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Autobaler
Ti200
Description: Compact horizontal
baler for a wide variety of materials
such as paper, plastics, textiles or
wooden crates.
Dimensions: From L 250 x W 1000
x H 1950 mm to 6500 x 2100 x
2300mm
Machine weight: Depending on model
Throughput: Depending on type, up to 20t per day
Bale size: L 750 x W 500 x H 800 , 850 x 600 x 800 or 1400 x 1100 x
720mm depending on model
Bale weight: Approximately 165-550kg
Operation: Mechanical ram operation by two screw spindles, driven by
an electric motor. Force: 8.8t – 33t Price: P.O.A.
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Bollegraaf HBC-series
Description: Vertical baler with top
loading, vertical and/or horizontal
tying system and pre-press flaps to
process more material per cycle, for
more compact, heavier and more
homogeneous bales.
Dimensions: L 7,750mm W 2,450 H
2,813 to 2,750 x 5,020 x 7,317 Machine weight: 14,900-52,400 kg
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Throughput: From 8.4t/hour to 82.3t/hour at 100 kg/m3
Bale size: 1000 x 720, 1,100 x 720, 1,100 x 1,000 or 1,100 x 1,100 mm
Operation: Hydraulic, motor capacities from 18,5 kW to 2 x 90 kW
Force: From 30.7 to 184.7t of baling force.
Cycle time:16 – 35 seconds depending on model. Base price: P.O.A.
More: 0450 53 41 49 / +31 (0)596 65 43 33, s.staps@bollegraaf.com or
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Bollegraaf HBK-series
Description: Fully automatic hydraulic
balers for industrial waste.
Dimensions: L 6740 x W 4170 x H
2,440 to 10,540 x 3,200 x 3,280mm
Machine weight: Approx 7000-9000kg
Throughput: 10 to 300 m3/hour,
depending on the material.
Bale weight: Up to 800 kg, depending on the model, type of material
and bale length
Bale size: 700 x 700, 900 x 800, or 720 x 1,100mm, depending on the
model. Bale length is adjustable.
Operation: Hydraulic operation, motor capacities from 3-45kW.
Force: 25t – 95t.
Cycle time: 13 seconds (HBK 100). Price: P.O.A
More: 0450 53 41 49 / +31 (0)596 65 43 33, s.staps@bollegraaf.com or
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Macpresse ‘L’ Series balers
Description: Designed to bale medium
quantities of recyclable materials.
Fitted with replaceable Hardox lining
in the baling chamber and channel
and ideally suited for waste paper,
cardboard, plastic containers,
aluminium cans, food tins etc.
Weight:18.5t
Power: 45KW
Throughput: Up to 24t/hour (depends on in-feed material density)
Bale size/weight: 750mm x 1100mm x variable bale length
Force: 75t
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Weight: Up to 40t
Power: Up to 2 x 75kW
Throughput: Up to 55t/hour (depends on in-feed material density)
Bale size/weight: 1100mm x 1100mm x variable bale length
Force: Up to 170t
Base price: P.O.A
More: Jeff Goodwin, DKSH Australia – 1300 133 063 or
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Macpresse Europa
Macpresse MAC 106/1 baler
EF3000VX Eco Weighing Baler
Arno Press D
Description: Vertical baler with weighing &
reporting capabilities
Dimensions: H 1985 x W 1730 x D 1020mm
Weight: 1270kg
Throughput: Up to 2t/hour
Bale size/weight: 800 x 1200 x 780mm x
300kg
Operation: Automatic compaction
Force: 30t
Cycle time: 45 seconds
Base price: P.O.A
More: 1800 025 073 or www.elephantsfoot.com.au
Description: The ArnoPress D
series for baling scrap metal can
be supplied in five sizes. Models
80-2 and 100-2 compact on 2
levels and models 100-3 to 3003 compact three dimensionally.
Rugged, robust, reliable, low
maintenance.
Throughput: 800kg/hr up to 35t/hr material dependent
Bale size/weight: 300mmx300mm up to 600mmx400mm
Operation: Each machine can be operated manually, automatically or
remotely from a loader.
Force: 800kN up to 3000kN
Cycle time: 45seconds up to 55 seconds
Price: P.O.A.
More: Koga Recyclingtech – 0419 558 600 or info@koga.com.au
ATM Recycling
Elephants Foot Recycling Solutions
Macpresse Europa
// Product Profile: Balers
Baling & Conveying Solutions
(07) 5574 4588
Fax: (07) 5574 4611
Ph:
5 Energy Crescent, Molendinar QLD 4214
Weekly news updates at www.BEN-global.com/waste
Rowland Engineering offers
a comprehensive range of
services, including:
• Design & Engineering
Services
• Equipment Supply &
Installation
º Auto Tie Horizontal
Balers
º Closed Door Manual
Tie Balers
º Twin Ram Balers
º Feed Conveyor Systems
www.rowlandengineering.com.au
Email: info@rowlandengineering.com.au
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Product Profile: Balers //
Description: Small footprint, manual baler
for soft plastics (shrink wrap, pallet wrap,
plastic bags, silage bags, hospital blue
Dimensions: H 1185mm x W 577 x D 717
Weight: 49kg
Throughput: 10:1
Bale size/weight: W 440 x D 360 x H 650
Operation: Manual
Force: Manual
Cycle time: 8-12 seconds
Base price: $1583
More: 03 9360 4330 / 0418 310 831 or
www.minipak.com.au
Godswill Horizontal Balers
Rowland Engineering Pty Ltd
Orwak Solutions Pty Ltd
MiniPak
50
Rowland Engineering Pty Ltd
Models: GB-7575CL
-40/60/80hp, GB-1175CL
-40/60/80hp
Throughput: 1-6t/hour
Compaction: OCC 450-600kg/
m3, plastic bottles 450-550kg/m3
Bale size: 0.75m x 0.75m x
1.25m-1.1m x 0.75m x 1.25m
Operation: Fully auto with auto
tie or semi auto with manual tie
Force: 120t
Base price: P.O.A.
More: info@rowlandengineering.com.au or
www.rowlandengineering.com.au
Godswill Twin Ram Balers
Models: GB-1175TR
-60/80/120/180hp
Throughput: 3-18t/hour
Compaction: OCC 450-600kg/
m3, plastic Bottles 350-550kg/m3
Bale size: 1.1m x 0.75 x 1.05
-1.35m length
Operation: Fully automatic with auto tie
Force: 120-160t
Base price: P.O.A.
More: info@rowlandengineering.com.au or
www.rowlandengineering.com.au
X25 Vertical Baler
Description: This auto-tie
horizontal baler from Wastech is
German engineered and is the
most compact unit available on
the market. A vertical tie needle
system allows the CC 40 V to fit
into spaces a typical horizontal
baler never would.
Dimensions: 2210mm H x 1580 W x 3600 L
Weight: 4200kg
Throughput: 90m3/h
Bale size/weight: 750mm H x 1100 W x 1200 L / 400kg
Force: 400 kN
Cycle time: 34 seconds
Base price: P.O.A
More: 1800 465 465 or www.wastech.com.au
Description: This premium quality
vertical baler provides superior
compaction and ease of use for your
staff. Safe and simple, the X25 is
one of a large range of vertical and
horizontal balers available
Dimensions: 1995mm H x 1745 W
x 1260L
Weight: 1410 kg
Bale size/weight: 800mm H x 1200
W x 800L mm / 200-300kg
Force: 25t press force
Cycle time: 23 seconds
Base price: P.O.A.
More: 1800 465 465 or www.wastech.com.au
Wastech Engineering
CC 40 V – Auto Tie Horizontal Baler
WastePac 300 Low Height Baler
WastePac 500 Heavy Duty Baler
Description: Automatic compaction
cycles, bale full light, emergency
stop button, low height, compact
design, fully automated bale ejector
– simplifies removal of bale, safe
and easy to operate, efficient, fast
cycle time , vertical dual cylinders –
increased compaction
Dimensions: 1.95m H x 1.8 W x
1.10 D
Weight: 1140kg
Throughput: 300kg in 40 seconds
Bale size/weight: 1m H x 1.2 W x 0.8m D. / 300kg
Operation: Hydraulic
Force: 20t
Cycle time: 40 seconds
Base price: P.O.A
More: 1800 441 100 or www.wasteinitiatives.com
Description: Ideally suited for
applications where optimum bale density
is required and especially valuable for
high-resistance bale materials such as
baling tyres, baling tough plastics like
HDPE. Often used in baling e-waste.
Features: Can bale a variety of materials
including car tyres and bumpers; unique
retaining system; extended cylinders
produce a more compact bale; and fully
automated bale ejector.
Dimensions: 3.5m H x 2.115 W x 1.2 D
Weight: 1935kg
Throughput: 610kg in 40 seconds
Bale size/weight: 1.2m H x 1.5m W x 0.769m D / up to 610kg
Operation: Hydraulic
Force: Up to 50t
Cycle time: 40 seconds. Base price: P.O.A.
More: 1800 441 100 or www.wasteinitiatives.com
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Wastech Engineering
Rowland Engineering Pty Ltd
Godswill Closed Door Balers
Models: GB-0505F -10/20hp,
GB-7575F -20/30/40hp,
GB-1108F -40/60hp, GB-1111F
-80/120/180hp
Throughput: 1-28t/hour
Compaction:
OCC 450-600kg/m3
Bale size: 0.5m x 0.5m x
variable – 1.1m x1.1m x Variable
Operation: Fully automatic with auto tie
Force: 20-120t
Base price: P.O.A.
More: info@rowlandengineering.com.au or
www.rowlandengineering.com.au
Weekly news updates at www.BEN-global.com/waste
// Wasted Space
The ERF will revolutionise
how auctions are run
RARELY has there been so much
excitement in the offices of Wasted
Space as we count down the days until
the very first Emissions Reduction
Fund (ERF) auction on April 15. After
all, so many of the plush fixtures and
fittings here have come from hard-won
auctions on eBay and Grays online.
We take our hat off to the sly preauction strategy of the Clean Energy
Regulator. The Regulator has gone on
the front foot, spruiking that the best
strategy for success at an ERF auction
is to bid at the lowest price you think
it’s worth your while to undertake the
project (meaning you pay the maximum
possible price).
With this advice, we’re expecting
a wave of copycat auctioneering will
begin this very weekend in property
markets around Australia. Buyers will
seek to trick vendors by slamming
down their very best bid first – even if
nobody else turns up to bid! In no time
at all, auctioneers across the county
will be able to auction at least 10
houses every hour revolutionising the
efficiency of property markets.
But of course it is all a bit trickier
than it first appears as this is a reverse
auction, which means sellers will need
to compete to obtain contracts from
the government and in these types of
auctions, prices typically decrease as
the sellers try to undercut each other
and gain the upper hand.
One problem – the government has
announced that the benchmark price
will not be published before the first
auction meaning project proponents
will be going in blind – much more fun
that way though. Imagine how funny
it will be when a near and dear friend
ends up paying double the going rate –
or better yet you get to pay lots more
than your competitors – what a hoot.
Wasted Space is thrilled that
the Regulator has done away with
conventional auction methods – outdated stuff that allows bidders to be
gradually educated on whether their
bid is above or below what the market
is bidding, for example.
So out with that price discovery
nonsense that allows bidders to
reconsider and change their bids. And
no chance to increase your bid either
– a truly masterful innovation that will
ensure super keen bidders with pockets
full of money miss out on spending it.
At Wasted Space we find it plainly
ridiculous that companies claim they
may sit out because of uncertainty over
whether their bids will be ruled out as
too high. It’s a big and expensive risk to
take, what with the feasibility studies
and financial analyses that need to be
conducted prior to the first auction. Is
it worth it they say? Ridiculous!
And what about the scenario put
forward by energy and carbon analysts
RepuTex that smart companies will bid
high (meaning pay less) and accept a
lower chance of winning in return for
a much larger pay-off if they win. How
silly is that – of course companies will
jump at the chance to play roulette.
Perhaps it will all go swimmingly
well and Wasted Space will have to eat
its words but if there’s one thing we’re
good at, it’s words and we’d just like to
put it out there that the government
can call it what it wants but this is not
iw
an auction.
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April 23
naus: Attacking inefficiencies in
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The world’s waste challenge is
immense and it will take technology
and teamwork to resolve. Waste
consultants and advisors are in a
pivotal position to lead the charge.
This webinar will review key inhibitors
of efficiency and what can be done to
dramatically increase the effectiveness
of waste strategy planning and options
appraisals. Guest presenters: Dr Darren
Perrin of Jacobs and Liz Hardie of
Mandalay Technologies.
www.wasteintelligence.com.au
May 5-7
Waste 2015 Conference and
Exhibition
Opal Cove Resort, Coffs Harbour
Celebrating its 15th year, Waste
2015 will feature two full days of
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presentations, a comprehensive trade
exhibition, social events on three
evenings and invaluable networking
opportunities. Topics that may be
covered include waste infrastructure,
landfill issues, innovation in organics
and policy and strategy. www.
waste2015.impactenviro.com.au
July 27-30
6th Australian Landfill and Transfer
Stations Conference and Expo
National Convention Centre,
Canberra
Hosted by the National Landfill Division
of the Waste Management Association
of Australia, the 6th Australian Landfill
and Transfer Stations Conference and
Expo will be held from July 27-30, 2015
at the National Convention Centre in
Canberra.
www.landfill.com.au
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and more...
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