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FACTSHEET 1 Food and Garden Organics Best Practice Collection Manual Why Collect Organics Move away from landfill Why Collect Organics Divert organics from landfill to Achieve superior environmental outcomes ID: 137517

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Slide1

Why collect organics?

FACTSHEET 1

Food and Garden Organics

Best Practice Collection ManualSlide2

Why Collect Organics?

Move away from landfillSlide3

Why Collect Organics?

Divert organics from landfill to:

Achieve

superior environmental outcomes Supply substitutes for dwindling virgin materials Manufacture high quality products Conserve essential plant nutrients Achieve landfill diversion and recovery

targetsReduce climate change impactsAttain renewable energy certificates Reducing carbon price impacts for liable facilities

Reduce

exposure to landfill levies

Reduce

landfill disposal costs

Realise

parks and gardens costs savings

Enhance

local investment and employment

Meet

community and voter expectations

Achieve

long term

behaviour

change

Enhance

social capital

Conserve

existing landfill airspace Slide4

Why Collect Organics?

Organics

represent the single largest fraction in a household garbage

binUp to 60% of the household waste we throw away each week is food and garden organicsSlide5

Benefits & Drivers

The Waste HierarchySlide6

Benefits & Drivers

Economic

Environmental

SocialSlide7

Economic Benefits

The carbon pricing mechanism

C

arbon price payment avoidance by diverting waste from landfillLandfill costs and leviesPotential annual savings in landfill costs, landfill levy and carbon priceRenewable Energy Certificates, potential income by generating green energyEnhanced investment and employmentAchieving recovery t

argetsSlide8

Environmental Benefits

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Potential

to save via kerbside collection and composting, as each tonne of garden and food organics or garden organics alone saves 250 and 320kg of CO2eConservation of valuable resourcesB

eneficial reuse of organics, either for land management purposes or for energy generationSlide9

Social Benefits

Potential

behaviour

changeA 3rd bin for collection of food and garden organics can influence increased recycling and waste minimisationSocial capitalAn organics collection may help

strengthen the local community and stimulate interest in environmental and sustainability initiativesSlide10

Other Benefits

Conserving landfill space

Reducing the amounts of waste sent to landfill will preserve its lifespanSlide11

NB:

Information in

this presentation

is taken from the

Food and Garden Organics Best Practice Collection Manual

(2012) published by the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. The full document is available on the department’s website

www.environment.gov.au/wastepolicy/publications/organics-collection-manual