Operational, demolition and construction waste management planning for projects across Australia — combining planning expertise with practical waste reduction, recycling and sustainability outcomes.
We assist developers, architects, planners, builders and operators with waste strategies for all development sectors.
Waste management planning for completed building operations including apartments, hotels, student accommodation, retail, healthcare, education, mixed-use developments and precincts.
Construction and demolition waste planning focused on practical recovery pathways, landfill reduction and council compliance across projects throughout Australia.
Strategic waste and sustainability consulting for projects seeking greater impact with more ambitious resource recovery, circular economy and operational waste reduction outcomes to meet organisational goals
Mixed use apartment development Beaufort St Inglewood WA
Franklin Wharf Elizabeth St pier Hobart – restaurants and hotel over water
Melbourne Sky Farm – Managing waste in windy location
Many waste management plans are prepared purely to satisfy planning requirements.
Our approach goes further — combining operational functionality, practical logistics, sustainability thinking and recycling optimisation to help deliver better long-term waste outcomes for developments and operators.
We understand:
We also maintain current knowledge of regional recycling and recovery pathways to provide locally relevant advice for construction and demolition waste recovery.
We have prepared 100’s of waste management plans and waste consulting strategies for projects across:
Our experience includes:
Royal Far West apartments – Manly NSW
Aurora Village Centre (Stage 2) Harvest Home Rd Epping North Vic
Encouragingly the new development in residential and non residential waste management is the increasing separation of food waste from garbage streams.
In many Australian municipalities food scraps are not separated from garbage going to landfill. These food scraps will go to landfill and the valuable nutrients within the organic material is lost. In addition food scraps in landfill contribute significantly to the 90% of greenhouse gas emissions from landfills that are a result of decomposing organic material (source Zero Waste SA).
Activating procedures to separate food organics (often 50% of domestic garbage) can have major impacts on reducing the negative green house gas effects of landfill. Directing food to bokashi bins (which can sit in a kitchen and accelerate the initial stages of composting), compost bins or worm farms are the most practical solutions for dealing with food waste outside of the garbage stream. These options are good, but rely on the energy and drive of keen people, and are not likely to have as wide an impact on food separation as a separate municipal food waste/green organics collection service.
Other areas of waste management where simple improvement can occur is in avoidance of excessive packaging – a simple action we can undertake in our own lives and at work.
In cases where avoidance is not possible, then a greater understanding of what can be recycled will make a difference in reducing landfill waste.
Appropriate signage can help with this. To download and print recycling signage visit Planet Ark’s business recycling site.
A better understanding of product and food packaging types can also help to improve resource recovery and reduce permanent waste to landfill. Generally rigid plastics labelled from 1-6 can readily be recycled and should go into co-mingled municipal and private recycling bins. However, plastic films, plastic bags, lightweight polystyrene, such as used for meat trays, packaging (including foam packing ‘peanuts’) and hot drink cups should not be put in municipal recycling bins.
