Action: 21 | Our climate action

1. Climate actions at Council / 1.5. Reducing our waste emissions /

21Waste audit of Council's offices, depots and customer service centres

Progress

On time

Not started
Planning
Implementation
Continuous

OBJECTIVE
Understand waste profile and waste separation behaviours relating to Council's corporate waste and identify emission reduction opportunities.
IMPACT
Low
Important to assist in driving other waste opportunities.

Waste audits will help us understand the waste profile and separation behaviours at our offices, depots and customer service centres.

Waste audits will help identify improvement areas to reduce waste to landfill and associated greenhouse gas emissions.

Outsource waste auditing services to assess waste habits at Council's buildings (by staff and cleaners).

Tasks

What's left to do?

30/06/2024
Create waste audit register to keep track of waste audits
31/07/2024
Follow-up review and action of audit results
Waste audit results will identify key opportunities for improvement in strategies and behaviours that support reduction of waste to landfill.

What are we doing?

30/06/2024
Conduct initial waste audit of Council's offices, depots and customer service centres
The audit serves to:
Understand waste profile and separation behaviours
Identify improvement areas to reduce emissions
Waste audit data can be stored in Trellis as part of emissions tracking.
- Offices
Beechworth (The Pines), Yackandandah
- Depots
Beechworth, Chiltern, Rutherglen, Yackandandah
- Customer Service Centres/Library’s
Beechworth (Ford St), Rutherglen Library, Chiltern Hub, Yackandandah Library
Process/Methodology
Audit bins day before waste/recycling collection day
Tip contents of bins out and visually inspect providing percentage separation of volume
Create audit register and report
Look at solutions to implement better separation
Staff engagement sessions
Cleaner engagement session
Potential changes to bin infrastructure
Follow up audit to monitor behaviour change
Stakeholders
Council staff
Halve Waste Education officer
Service provider/s
Cleaner/s
Council's Communications & Engagement team
Council's Waste team

Related actions

Indicators

Waste audits of Council's facilities

23. Landfill diversion of Council's office, depot and customer service centre waste

Timeline

01/06/2024 → Continuous → 31/12/2035

Target audience

Responsible organisations

Manages Council's office and depot cleaning contracts, which include waste.
Manages Council's waste policies, contracts and audits.
Manages Council's carbon accounting platform Trellis.

Emissions Scope

Theme

Indicative costs
Assume $20,000
Indicative savings
Consider economies of scale by having multiple buildings targeted by the audit.

Information updated 18/03/2024

Progress

OBJECTIVEDefinition

Understand waste profile and waste separation behaviours relating to Council's corporate waste and identify emission reduction opportunities.

IMPACTDefinition

Important to assist in driving other waste opportunities.

Description

Tasks

What's left to do?

Create waste audit register to keep track of waste audits

Follow-up review and action of audit results

What are we doing?

Conduct initial waste audit of Council's offices, depots and customer service centres

Related actions

Indicators

Waste audits of Council's facilities

Summary and contacts

Timeline

Target audience

Responsible organisations

Emissions ScopeDefinition

Theme

Indicative costsDefinition

Indicative savingsDefinition

How this action contributes to the outcome

OBJECTIVE

IMPACT

Emissions Scope

Indicative costs

Indicative savings