Publications
Green Waste and Composting:
Household Hazardous Waste Committee Confirmed meeting minutes: 15th March 2010
Final meeting minutes for the 15th March 2010 from the Household Hazardous Waste Committee Meeting.
Published: 2010-05-05
Household Hazardous Waste Committee Confirmed meeting minutes: 15th April 2010
Final meeting minutes for the 15th April 2010 from the Household Hazardous Waste Committee Meeting.
Published: 2010-05-05
Fact Sheet: Home Composting
Provides basic facts and tips on composting and recycling organic waste.
Published: 2010-05-04
Fact Sheet: Worm Farming
Provides basic facts and tips on setting up a worm farm.
Published: 2010-05-04
Home Composting Brochure
Home composting is a simple process that assists in the breakdown of organic matter – such as food scraps and garden organics into a nutrient rich soil-like material that can be used to create and maintain a healthy and sustainable garden. This brochure will help you get started in four easy steps.
Published: 2010-05-04
Worm Farming Brochure
Worm farming is a simple way of converting food scraps and other organic material into a nutrient rich organic fertiliser called worm castings. This brochure will help you get started in five easy steps.
Published: 2010-05-04
Sustainable Gardening Brochure: Using Compost
A guide to using composting in your garden. Compost is an organic fertiliser resulting from the controlled breakdown of organic matter. It can be made at home in a compost bin from garden trimmings and food scraps, or bought from garden centres and landscape suppliers.
Published: 2010-05-04
Home Composting Poster
Educational resource for facts about Home Composting
Published: 2010-05-04
Worm Farming Poster
Educational resource for facts about Worm Farming
Published: 2010-05-04
Fact Sheet: Sustainable Gardening
Provides basic facts and tips on conducting sustainable gardening around the home.
Published: 2010-05-04
Sustainable Gardening Poster
Educational resource for facts about sustainable gardening
Published: 2010-05-04
Household Hazardous Waste Program - Program Summary and Forecasts for 2010-11
This report was produced from the first Household Hazardous Waste Committee meeting held on the 10th February 2010. It details amounts of waste collected between February and December 2009. Budget forecasts for 2010-11 and temporary collection days for 2010.
Published: 2010-03-18
Household Hazardous Waste Commitee unconfirmed meeting minutes: 10th February 2010
The Chairman advised members of the importance of the Household Hazardous Waste (HHW)
Committee, it being the first Committee of the Waste Authority to be approved by the Minister under
the terms of section 18 of the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2007 (WARR Act).
The Chairman advised that the Authority’s aim was to establish a continuing, effective and efficient
partnership program for Household Hazardous Waste with local government and other key
stakeholders. WALGA supported these aims and added the need to continue past funding
commitments, to refine and enhance the Program and to ultimately look to product stewardship
approach for household hazardous wastes.
Published: 2010-02-22
Household Hazardous Waste Program Summary February 2010
From February to December 2009:
18 collections of household hazardous waste (HHW) were made from 6 permanent facilities in the Perth metropolitan area and the City of Geraldton-Greenough.
12 temporary collection days were held.
In total, 149,089.5kg of HHW was collected.
Published: 2010-02-16
Draft for Public Comment: Environmental guidelines for organic waste recycling facilities. 19th November - 18th February 2009
Environmental guidelines
for organic waste
recycling facilities - draft
Published: 2008-11-20
Waste generation in the Western Australian home building industry - July 2007
A major challenge for the housing industry is to achieve a reasonable balance between the need to build and renovate homes and the need to safeguard finite resources. As Australia’s peak housing body, HIA understands and welcomes its responsibility to provide environmental leadership.
Published: 2008-10-02
Master Builders Green Living: Commercial Construction Waste Management Guide- September 2006
A free practical guide for commerical builders and subcontractors to help cut disposal costs, meet contractual obligations, limit risks, and benefit the environment.
Published: 2008-06-18
Waste Management Board of Western Australia Position Statement
Recycled Organics - February 2008
One of the functions of the Waste Management Board (Board) is to promote the wise
use of resources that would otherwise be considered to be waste. Consequently, the
Board considers the diversion and beneficial use of organic waste from landfill to be a
priority.
Properly composted recycled organic material when applied to home gardens, public
parks and road verges or farmland, can improve soil quality and reduce nutrient losses.
The Board believes that appropriately selected and treated organic waste should be
recycled wherever possible and used to replenish soil organic matter.
Organic matter being applied to residential gardens, and root and leaf crops intended for
direct human consumption should be pasteurised by composting before application to
land. Raw manures and untreated liquid organic wastes should not be used in these
applications.
The Board embraces the notion that separation at source is the preferred strategy for
recovering organic waste, particularly garden organics. Composts derived from sourceseparated
organic wastes and single-waste sources are more likely to meet quality
requirements for unrestricted use. None-the-less there is also a substantial need for
lower quality composts in a range of important applications.
Published: 2008-02-01
Assessment of Markets for Recycled Organics in Western Australia.
The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the supply and demand
trends for recycled organics in a range of markets and geographic areas in close proximity to Perth, and to identify the barriers preventing the growth of emerging markets, including urban amenity, intensive and extensive agriculture, enviro-remediation, rehabilitation and bio-fuels.
Published: 2007-10-12
DISPOSE OF UNWANTED HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE SAFELY!
Brochure and Poster Development Kit- July 2007
Welcome to the Dispose of Unwanted Household Hazardous Waste Safely! Brochure and Poster
Development Kit. This kit is designed to enable you to produce your own educational materials for the
safe disposal of household hazardous waste.
Published: 2007-07-03
ORGANICS RECYCLING AND SUSTAINABLE GARDENING AT HOME: Brochure and Poster Development Kit for Environmental
Educators
Welcome to the Organics Recycling and Sustainable Gardening at Home Brochure and Poster
Development Kit for Environmental Educators! This kit is designed to enable you to produce your own
educational materials or utilise those provided for the topics of Home Composting, Sustainable
Gardening and Worm Farming.
Published: 2007-06-25
MARKET DEVELOPMENT STUDY
USED GLASS For WESTERN AUSTRALIA WASTE
MANAGEMENT BOARD - August 2006
Owens Illinois (OI), formerly known as ACI Glass Containers, is the world’s largest
producer of bottles and is responsible for manufacturing more than 90% of Australia’s
domestic glass bottles. OI closed its Perth-based manufacturing facility in 2003 after
over 50 years of operation, due to increasing commercial pressure from international
imports, and relocated all production to South Australia. This decision, whilst made on
economic grounds, has led to the current dilemma regarding what to do with the glass
sold and recovered in Western Australia (WA), given the lack of local alternative
markets. With high interstate transport costs, the movement of materials interstate can
only be seen as an interim measure.
Nationally, Australia is currently recovering 35% or 278,000 tonnes of used glass
containers. It is estimated, based on national sales, that WA generates between 80,000–
90,000 tonnes per year of container glass and is currently recovering for recycling
approximately 20,000 tonnes, or 23%. In order to meet the National Packaging
Covenant target for glass recovery of between 50–60% by the year 2010 additional
125,000 tonnes per annum are required.
For glass to remain competitive in its traditional markets against other packaging forms,
that is, plastics and aluminium, manufacturers undertook research and development into
the light-weighting of containers – today a beer stubby is 27% lighter than the same
bottle 20 years ago.
Published: 2006-09-29
Draft Organics Strategy
This strategy document represents the culmination of an extensive program of investigation into issues relating to organic waste and what strategies could be implemented to reduce the environmental impact of organic waste in WA.
Published: 2006-07-10
Draft Interim Standard for Organics Applied to Land
The purpose of this document is to set quality standards for organic materials being applied to land as a soil conditioner, fertiliser or mulch. The standard is aimed at producers and users of recycled organic products. The standard may also be useful to regulators by providing information to support licensing and enforcement activities, however, it is voluntary and does not constitute a regulation.
Published: 2006-07-10
Report by the Working Group on
Standards for Organics (including Compost) Applied to Land
This is a report to the Waste Management Board of a record of the deliberations and findings of the Working Group on Organics (including Compost) Applied to Land. The discussions held by the Working Group covered a wide range of topics relevant to recycling of organic waste.
Published: 2005-11-01
Management of Garden and Food Organics Produced by Municipal and Commercial & Industrial Sectors in Australia and Overseas
This consultancy report presents a review of the contemporary management approaches for garden and food organics produced by the municipal and commercial & industrial sector, presents a number of issues or themes that currently impact on the management of garden and food organics, and a review of the suite of policies and supporting programs implemented by a number of jurisdictions, both in Australia and overseas.
Published: 2005-07-01