Moreton Bay Waste Services
Manager – Pat Pathmanathan
Co coordinators of facilities North – Jamie Purcell
Co coordinators of facilities South – Chris Webb
Dawson Courneys – MBRC

Local Initiatives
Info available on the Council websites.

Now only 30% of material is landfilled.

Three landfill facililites. Caboolture Dakabin Bunya.

Caboolture and Dakabin accept the most waste types.
Bunya is smallest. Doesn’t really accept much commercial material. Bunya does not accept asbestos at all. A more clean type of waste there.

Nine transfer stations around the council.
Ningi Redcliffe and Woodford accept commercial

Charges:
Tonnage rates (vehicles over 2.5 tonnes gross weight)
General waste $91 ($30 min)
Recyclable waste $55 ($18 min)
Concrete $33 ($18 min)
Clean fill l$7.50 ($7.50 min)
Asbestos containing material (ACM) $165
Dead animals $165 ($37 min)
Tyres $350……
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What happens to your waste

Clean fill concrete green waste market goods steel timber reused processed onsite or collected and processed by contractors on site (Pet hate: contaminated clean fill)

Clean fill
Mixing contaminant with clean fill attracts a much higher charge.
Clean fill is no chunks no more than 10% contaminatin (bricks green waste general rubbish)
Not too ‘sloppy’ – mud is charged at general rate of $91/tonne

Concrete
crushed onsite to 80mm 40mm and 20mm sizes. Used internally to create haul roads drainabe material and to maintain pads for all weather roads.

Concrete – sludge
Caboolture Waste Facility is conducting a trial to accept excess or unused residual concrete to form precast concrete blocks.
Used internally for road barriers temporary walls….

Green Waste
Stockpiled and mulched onsite
Free to residents
Used to establish and maintain Council public areas
Sold to comercial operators
Useful for sediment control and dust suppression

Steel
Collected and stockpiled on site
Sold to contractor and taken off site

Timber
Collected and taken to Rocky Point power station for separation and processing to generate electricity

Tyres
Reused on site for barriers and traffic management
Useful in new landill cell construction as part of the drainage layer.
Tyres are a regulated waste. If more than 250kg you need a waste traffic certificate.

Asbestos –
When suspected material is received it will be treated as asbestos until negative test results show otherwise. Must have waste tracking form. Requires a Licensed transportee and handler. Must be securely wrapped not torn and labelled correctly.

Treasure Market
Operates at the 3 landfills but markets only operate at Dakabin and Caboolture Facilities. (Not Bunya)
Goods are donated or scavenged by facility staff
Open Fri Sat & Sun 8am at 1pm
Last year over 6000tonnes taken to market

General Waste
Pushed and compacted into batters
Organic component of waste degrades into residual solids liquid and gas. The solids remain mostly intact leachate remains within the landfill while the gas is extracted and flared off (50% methane 40% carbon dioxide remainder is trace gases).
Landfill gas is flared off to reduce the methane from the gas reducing greenhouse emissions while also allowing for possible power generation.

Questions:

1.What can we do as a community to get a Treasure Market at Bunya Tip
2.BCB Technologies – a hazardous waste company
3.Looking for companies accepting rubber waste.
4.Plastic waste
5.Wrapping plastic
6.How can we provide opportunities for the community and local businesses to scavenge local waste before it goes to tips?
7.People raised public liability and BCC taking away the right to scavenge ‘because of the floods’
8.Example given of waste recycling business in South Brisbane – “You can start such a business locally”
9.People stop recycling when A$ goes up? Reduces the profit on scrap. Wages fuel bills going up sharply. He thinks the recycling businesses need support.
10.Recycling businesses have vested interests contrary to ordinary citizens’ scavenging interests.
11.Prempac Recycling Katrina Osborne
12.PRO Skips Rodney Born
13.Now waste is going to be split up it will means smaller trucks to pick it up and more trips (petrol staff). Trucks are going to have to be split with two arms on them to put products in different parts of the truck.
14.Contract to SETA. SETA don’t lose the business that contract businesses lose when the A$ goes up. Customers just use the general waste bin.
15.Encouraging more transport on the road.