Overview of the direction of waste management in metropolitan Melbourne (1.29MB)
Rob Millard, Chief Executive Officer, Metropolitan Waste Management Group (MWMG)
Emerging Solutions stream
The carbon cycle stops here: onsite organics management options for homes, businesses and communities (480kb)
Bill Grant, Blue Environment
Doing your litter bit: creating effective taskforces within litter partnerships (567kb)
Stan Vermeeren, MWMG
Photos of the group brainstorms from Doing your litter bit.
Charity bins and locations
Schools
Shopping strips
Mastering Buying In stream
Keeping Australia beautiful: the science of littering (568kb)
Peter Mclean, Keep Australia Beautiful
Councils can go back to school to engage the community (807kb)
Marion van Gameren, MWMG
Green office programs: building successful green teams (2.35MB)
Kati Thompson, Green Steps Program
Next Generation Communications stream
Social media and waste minimisation engagement: opportunities for new forms of public participation (2.44MB)
Paul Kaan, The Social Larder
Read Paul's blog entry “No More Random Acts of Social Media” that includes highlights of the day, key messages, links to useful resources and a viewable version of the presentation with the Department of Justice's Social Media Policy video embedded.
Online consultation approaches (708kb)
Dr Crispin Butteriss, Bang the Table
Learnings from the Compost Revolution: can online engagement replace face to face learning in community projects (5.11 MB)
JP Williamson, Compost Revolution and Dave Gravina, Digital Eskimo/Revolution Apps
Future Organics: technology, processing and public engagement
North West Organics social research project (381kb)
Charlie Coulton, Sweeney Research
Technology options (114kb)
Bill Grant, Blue Environmental
The South Australian Experience (4.09MB)
Justin Lang, Zero Waste, SA
Strategic direction for organics recycling (219kb)
Rob Millard, MWMG
Future Organics: Technology, processing and public engagement - a panel discussion
Including presentations on: North West Organics social research project (Charlie Coulton, Sweeney Research), Technology options (Bill Grant, Blue Environmental ), The South Australian Experience, (Justin Lang, Zero Waste, SA). Facilitated by Trish McGee (EnviroCom)
Organics waste management is changing. How ready are we for the changes? Do we know where our organic waste should go and how it will be treated? There are strategic, technical and financial viability issues involved in organics diversion from landfill and the technologies for organics management vary in scale. Will Advanced Resource Recovery Technologies provide the answer to treating our food and garden waste? And what is the role of households and communities? What are their attitudes and knowledge about organics recycling and composting and what role will waste educators play? The emphasis can be varied from food waste avoidance, composting, kerbside recycling, source separation or advanced treatment. These questions around the direction of Melbourne’s organics management form the basis of this discussion, featuring a broad panel representation.
Secrets of effective behaviour change projects
Les Robinson: Enabling Change
What's the secret of creating an effective behaviour change project? "Process, process, process". For busy sustainability professionals trying to tackle socially complex problems, the "how" is likely more important than the "what". Les will reveal a surprisingly simple and powerful process for creating projects that change the world. This enjoyable, interactive workshop might just change the way you work forever.
Keeping Australia beautiful: The science of littering
Peter Mclean: Chief Executive Officer, Keep Australia Beautiful
This workshop will draw on past information and campaigns that Keep Australia Beautiful (KAB) has been involved in during its 45 years and will bring in national litter research, branded litter research and how KAB plans on tackling litter in the future. Emerging trends will be identified along with best practice case studies from across Australia.
Designing for recyclability: A national perspective
Brett Giddings: Member Services Manager, Australian Packaging Covenant
This interactive presentation will challenge attendees to consider the challenges faced by the resource recovery and packaging industries to recycle more packaging. Receive insight into what truly makes a product ‘recyclable’ and how the Australian Packaging Covenant is working with other parties to improve recovery from a national perspective. Be warned: you will be asked to participate by reviewing the ‘recyclability’ of some tricky packaging items.
Expanding e-waste collection bandwidth: The National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme
Shannon Smyth: Project Officer Strategy and Policy, Metropolitan Waste Management Group
With case studies and guest speakers
The National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme was launched in July 2012, but how did it come to be, who are the key players and how do you get involved? This session will be a ‘Scheme 101’ detailing the scheme’s goals, timeframes and what it means for your community. Hear from a council on their experience running a collection event and meeting the co-regulatory arrangements involved in delivering the scheme. Attendees will leave with further knowledge on the scheme and contact details of the key players.
Doing your litter bit: Creating effective taskforces within litter partnerships
Stan Vermeeren: Litter Program Coordinator, Metropolitan Waste Management Group
With litter program facilitators
The key to a successful litter program is establishing a strong Task Force Team to support an integrated program that engages a wide variety of stakeholders and target audiences. But how to turn something that is dirty, takes a lot of work and might be someone else’s problem into an opportunity for community building and pride? This will be an interactive session consisting of small table groups each focusing on a different litter program theme or audience. Join our team of litter program facilitators to generate practical ideas and have some old fashioned fun.
The carbon cycle stops here: Onsite organics management options for homes, businesses and communities
Bill Grant: Director, Blue Environment
This workshop provides an overview of possible organics management technologies ranging from small composting and worm farm units through to fully-automated small-scale organics processing systems. There will also be a discussion of opportunities, barriers and possible solutions to reducing and managing organics on site in homes, businesses and communities and the vital role education plays in organic waste reduction and the successful operation of systems
Councils can go back to school to engage the community
Marion Van Gameren: Schools Engagement Support, Metropolitan Waste Management Group
Find out about a range of approaches, resources and tools that help councils provide waste reduction support to schools but also use schools as a way to educate parents, residents and the wider community. Schools are very busy places and teachers are time poor and focussed on delivering curriculum (including dealing with the new AusVELS) so councils need to explore techniques and tools to engage them. Participate in a review of the barriers encountered by councils and potential solutions to encourage school buy in to council waste and litter education projects. The session will include strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation ideas to assist councils with their school support.
Green office programs: Building successful green teams
Kati Thompson: Training Coordinator, Green Steps Program, Monash University
With case studies
How do you build a successful green team and create buy in with staff around waste management? This workshop will begin by looking at the Green Steps experience of what works, some local government focussed case studies and guided discussion, so bring along your experiences and examples to share. Green Steps, Monash University is an award winning not-for-profit Australian environmental consulting and training provider. Their programs help participants make their workplaces and work practices more environmentally sustainable.
Online consultation approaches
Dr Crispin Butteriss: Managing Director, Bang the Table
This presentation will explore the application of online community engagement around numerous aspects of waste management and recycling policy and practice through a series of case studies. Attendees will leave with an appreciation of the opportunities and good practices for using the internet for education and consultation about waste management issues.
Learnings from the Compost Revolution: Can online engagement replace face to face learning in community projects
JP Williamson: Project Manager, Compost Revolution and Dave Gravina: Director, Digital Eskimo/Revolution Apps
What happens when you combine web developers and composters in a room together? You get a Compost Revolution! This session we will explore the reach, behaviour change, diversion rates and cost of the online, face to face and partnership models for buy-in and education. Compost Revolution engages over 3000 households, businesses and community groups to compost successfully each year. Over ninety-one percent of participants still compost more than half their food waste 12 months after using the program with 800 tonnes per year composted. This was achieved through a hybrid of on-line tutorial, face to face workshops, subsidised compost bins and worm farms and a range of community and business partnerships.
Building a framework for delivering metro wide campaigns: Learnings from ‘Get it Right on Bin Night’
Zandy Powell, Team Leader Education and Engagement, Metropolitan Waste Management Group and Hamish Jacobsen, Project Officer Education Campaigns and Programs, Metropolitan Waste Management Group
‘Get it Right on Bin Night’ is a partnership program developed by Sustainability Victoria, the Metropolitan Waste Management Group and Melbourne's 30 councils with funding from the Australian Packaging Covenant. The program uses a metropolitan wide approach to improve kerbside recycling rates by increasing household recycling knowledge and changing behaviours and practices. Using the learnings and findings from Phase A of the program, this workshop will get you to think about how we can work together to develop collaborative programs that extend beyond traditional council boundaries, what approaches work, the benefits and the barriers. Can the learnings from the 'Get it Right on Bin Night' model be applied to other waste education and engagement programs? Discussion will be facilitated around the types of approaches that would assist councils to extend their capacity to reach their local communities also forms part of this workshop discussion.
Social media and waste minimisation engagement: Opportunities for new forms of public participation
Speaker TBC
The Economic Development and Environment Network (EDEN) was established by the Metropolitan Waste Management Group in 2009. Its aim is to support the 30 metropolitan Councils in exploring opportunities to engage with businesses in programs that focus on sustainability and improve their waste management practices. Membership to the Network is free. The Network usually meets twice a year, however as part of the Metropolitan Waste Management Group’s Waste Education and Litter Prevention Conference “Tipping Point – Engagement beyond the fridge magnet” a business breakfast 'Councils Engaging Businesses on Sustainability' is being held at the MCG on March 5 2013 at 7:30am.
Nothing beats face-to-face storytelling: Councils engaging businesses on sustainability
Jim Fraser: Sustainability Coordinator, Marrickville Council
A presentation about engaging businesses through the ‘target sustainability @ marrickville’ program, the program background, how it works, their key successes from the past three years, the role of council and directions that the program will head in the future. There will also be a discussion about the target sustainability @ marrickville Sustainable Business Network and the power of peer-to-peer learning.
Central Queensland regional local government integrated recycling project ‘towardZero – reducing waste at work’
Bronwyn Sutton: Project Director, Kenmore‐DMP Pty Ltd
This innovative project was funded by the Australian Packaging Covenant and Queensland Government to engage businesses on waste minimisation across Central Queensland. Managed by the Central Queensland Local Government Association, towardZero is a great example of collaboration and how Councils can engage business on sustainability. Bronwyn will describe the program development including the barriers to change, key elements of the program and its success factors – including ongoing funding and what the future holds.
From vouchers to vicars, from bins to binoculars: Environment Manager on Loan program
Sheridan Blunt: Sustainable Environment Coordinator, Moonee Valley City Council
From vouchers to vicars, from bins to binoculars there have been some great lessons learnt across a range of pilot business programs run in inner Melbourne over the past five years. City of Moonee Valley reflect on their Environment Manager on Loan program for SME’s and their Green Precinct business cluster program which have achieved varying results. With comparison to business programs that were run for hotels and highrise in the CBD, there are still questions asked about the best way to make the big environment changes that our cities need. Can the answer lie in the ‘new economy’?
All tours take place on Wednesday 6 March, 2013 from 8:30am to 4:30pm, leaving from and returning to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
After the tours, all attendees are invited for drinks and nibbles at the Boatbuilders Yard to join the Metropolitan Waste Management Group in networking with fellow attendees.
Collingwood Children’s Farm
Cultivating Community/Yarra City Council: Have a look at this innovative community program, a partnership between Cultivating Community and Yarra City Council, that includes composting hubs designed to collect café and household food waste and turn it into a useable community resource. www.cultivatingcommunity.org.au
CMA EcoCycle: Tour this recycling facility that processes CFLs and fluoro tubes, button cell batteries, dental and medical waste, mining concentrates and x-rays. See how x-rays are recycled and silver is extracted. www.cmaecocycle.net/
VISY: A look at the entire paper recycling process. Track what happens from the beginning (waste paper going up a conveyor belt and into a "blender") all the way through to the end product. www.visy.com.au/
Vinnies: This tour looks at the charitable collection and dissemination of clothing and homewares. Tour delegates will be able to participate in a sorting activity where they get to work on the conveyor belts for 15 or so minutes picking out clothing for stores or clothing to be sent offshore to 3rd world countries. www.vinnies.org.au/home-vic
Wingate Community Centre: Hear about this great example of community engagement in action in a public housing complex. www.wingateave.com.au/
TyreCrumb/Save our Soles: This social enterprise recycles both tyres and shoes! Save our Soles collect and recycle shoes using the TyreCrumb facilities. Take a look at what services TyreCrumb can offer local government in regards to recycled tyre matting products. Bring your old shoes to see them get shredded! www.tyrecrumbaustralia.com/
Frankston Clean Beaches: Hear from the Keep Australia Beautiful Victoria Clean Beach Award winner two years in a row about their programs, how they engage the community to stop littering and how their maintenance is managed. Click here for more information.
Sita/Outlook Hampton Park: Take a look at social enterprises in transfer stations - Outlook Environmental - their tip shop and their e-waste recycling. The tour will also encompass the concrete crushing machine and the secure product destruction plant. www.outlookvic.org.au/
SIMS e-Waste: Tour the SIMS e-waste recycling facility and take a look at the secure IT destruction area, view someone taking apart a TV for recycling and what happens to all the separated materials and where they go. au.simsmm.com/Services/Ewaste
Lauren Anderson, Community Director for CollaborativeConsumption.com
Lauren Anderson is the Community Director for CollaborativeConsumption.com, having played an instrumental role in building the global Collaborative Consumption movement, named by TIME as one of the '10 Ideas That Will Change The World.' Over the last two years, Lauren has been a radar for the growing worldwide trend, researching the latest examples for International book editions of What's Mine is Yours including the UK and Brazil, and building a global network of ambassadors for the movement. She is a leading source of strategic knowledge for global entrepreneurs, journalists, and venture capitalists who want the latest market insights and best practices to stay ahead of the curve on new goods and services in the market. Lauren is a highly skilled public speaker and workshop facilitator, who has delivered keynotes in Europe, United States, South America and Australia for organizations such as SXSW Interactive, Fast Company, GigaOm, UNEP Future of Sustainable Lifestyles and Entrepreneurship, CPA Australia and the Brightest Young Minds Summit. Her presentations focus on how the latest collaborative technologies will influence the way we live, create, and consume. Lauren curates a bi-weekly 'Collaborative Entrepreneurs' column getting inside hot ventures from Airbnb to TaskRabbit. See more here. Lauren will be linking collaborative consumption to a tangible community level, drawing from the global to the local,focussing on waste management, partnerships and collaborations.
Sheridan Blunt - Sustainable Environment Coordinator, Moonee Valley City Council
From vouchers to vicars, from bins to binoculars: Environment Manager on Loan program
Sheridan Blunt has been Sustainable Environment Coordinator at Moonee Valley City Council for the past four years and leads a team that deals holistically with urban environment matters. This ranges from greenhouse, waterway health, water conservation, resource recovery, land contamination and urban ecology. Sheridan’s experience in sustainable building programs stems from experiences with very different sustainable business programs include Green Precinct and Environment Manager on Loan at Moonee Valley City Council, and the Savings in the City Green Hotels and Building Improvement Program in her previous role at City of Melbourne. She has worked as an urban planner for both the Victorian and New South Wales Government, in addition to international community development work in the Philippines. Sheridan is an energetic communicator often invited to speak and facilitate progressive discussions and state, national and international forums.
Dr Crispin Butteriss - Managing Director, Bang the Table
Online consultation approaches: Bang the Table
Crispin co-founded Bang the Table in 2007 as Australia's first specialist online community engagement provider. The company has worked with some 150 government agencies in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Crispin has a background in community and stakeholder engagement, as well as public policy focussing on environmental, land use and economic development issues. He completed his PhD studies in the application of adult and organisational learning to community engagement.
Charlie Coulton - Sweeney Research
Future Organics: Technology, processing and public engagement
Charlie Coulton joined Sweeney Research in mid-2010 and has over seven years’ experience in the marketing space as an analyst, researcher and strategic planner specialising in communications development and evaluation. He takes a keen interest in the environment and has conducted several research studies into waste management over the past years, including the kerbside organics project recently completed on behalf of MWMG.
Jim Fraser - Sustainability Coordinator, Marrickville Council
Sustainability@Marrickville program and the power of peer to peer learning
Jim Fraser is a sustainability professional who has worked in and for local government since 2006 including roles at the City of Ryde and the Local Government Association of the Northern Territory. He is currently the Community Sustainability Coordinator at Marrickville Council, an inner city Sydney council which services over 81,000 residents. His role involves supporting the community to find innovative ways to reduce the community’s footprint through renewal, reduction and reuse.
Brett Giddings - Member Services Manager, The Australian Packaging Covenant
Designing for recyclability: A national perspective
With a background in product development and environmental management, Brett has held roles that span the full lifecycle of products; design through to recycling. Before joining the APC in December 2011 Brett worked in local government in a waste management role, contracted to several environmental consultancies, held a research position at UNSW and was Visy’s Product Sustainability Manager. As Member Services Manager at the APC, Brett is charged with improving the capacity of organisations to develop systems to improve the design, recycling and product stewardship of packaging. This includes running Design for Recycling Workshops, leading a Resource Recovery Working Group and developing sustainable sourcing and design guides.
Bill Grant - Director, Blue Environment
The Carbon Cycle stops here: Onsite organics management options for homes, businesses and communities
Bill Grant is a Director of Blue Environment, a consultancy specialising in environmental, greenhouse gas abatement, waste management, and resource efficiency research and strategic planning. Bill, an agricultural and environmental scientist, has spent about half his 25-year professional career in the private sector as an environmental research consultant and the other half in a number of government roles including working as a research scientist, environment protection officer, and industry advisor promoting resource efficiency. Bill works extensively in the area of organics waste management, and as both a private consultant and Industry Advisor with Sustainability Victoria, Bill has worked with individual businesses and industry sectors to identify and act on eco-efficiency and waste minimisation opportunities.
David Gravina - Chief Executive Officer, Digital Eskimo
Learnings from the Compost Revolution: Can online engagement replace face to face learning in community projects
David Gravina is a social entrepreneur, designer and progressive activist. He is the CEO and Founder of Digital Eskimo, a strategic design practice on a mission to drive social and environmental progress using the transformational power of design and technology. He is also CEO & Founder of two social innovation startups launched through Digital Eskimo: Do Gooder, an online campaigning platform, and The Compost Revolution, an online education platform for composting and worm farming. Revolution Apps, the startup that operates the Compost Revolution on behalf of a growing list of councils was created with the mission to spark mini revolutions in the way people live on the planet through new digitally enabled social enterprises.
Kate Houghton - Director of Sustainability Policy, Department of Sustainability and Environment
Victoria's Draft Waste and Resource Recovery Policy
Ms Kate Houghton (BEc(Hons) Masters Enviro) is the Director of Sustainability Policy for the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE). Kate has 16 years experience in the public service having worked for the Department of Premier and Cabinet, New South Wales Environment Protection Authority, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment and now DSE. She has led a number of high priority policy projects including Our Water Our Future and the Snowy River project. Her 10 years dedication and passion for water policy is now being challenged with the complexities and opportunities of waste and resource recovery policy.
Paul Kaan - Founder, The Social Larder
Paul Kaan works to find the intersection between digital and physical for each organisation and business to tap into the full social media potential. Paul develops practical, manageable solutions, finding the best tools to engage, create context with your community and amplify your message through the myriad of digital networks that exist. Paul has worked with clients in online, retail, biotechnology, government, agriculture and his first love, the wine industry. Paul holds a Masters of Entrepreneurship & Innovation from the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University, and a Bachelor of Agriculture Science (Winemaking), The University of Adelaide.
Justin Lang - Zero Waste South Australia
Justin's career in local government has spanned over 20 years, working in a variety of fields including development, asset management, water sensitive urban design and sustainability. He served a four year term as an Area Councillor at the City of Campbelltown, including three years on the board and a term as Chair of East Waste (a local government subsidiary owned and operated by six Adelaide Councils). Justin has managed waste contracts, reviewed kerbside programs, and introduced new services. He has developed service standards, kerbside auditing standards, and managed the ZWSA food waste pilots and a regional grants program for recycling infrastructure.
Trish McGee - Victorian Manager, EnviroCom Australia
Future Organics: Technology, processing and public engagement
Trish McGee is the Victorian Manager for EnviroCom Australia, an environmental consultancy focussing on waste/environmental education and strategy delivery. Trish has nearly 15 years’ experience in the sustainable waste management industry, working for and with state and local government, community and industry. Trish has delivered on a wide range of programs in the areas of materials efficiency, recycling, behaviour change, major grant management and organics recovery during her time at EcoRecycle Victoria, Sustainability Victoria, & Packaging Stewardship Forum. She has a Phd, Masters and Bachelor in Applied Science, and Diploma of Business, and has represented waste educators on the WMAA board over the last two years. Trish also has experience and formal training in Waste Auditing, EMS Auditing, Carbon Accounting, GRI reporting and Lifecycle analysis. Trish was awarded the Pam Keating Award in 2010 for her contribution to Victoria’s sustainable waste management industry.
Peter McLean - Chief Executive Officer, Keep Australia Beautiful
Keeping Australia beautiful: The science of littering
Peter grew up near Camden on the Hawkesbury Nepean River in far South Western Sydney. His past roles have included working with National Parks and in local government where litter was a key focus in each role. Peter arrived at Keep Australia Beautiful NSW in 2004 and managed litter reduction campaigns and various community development programs like Tidy Towns before becoming CEO in 2007. He holds a degree in Environmental Management and Certificates in Bush Regeneration and Business Governance and will soon complete a Master’s in Business Administration sub majoring in Public Relations and Business Law. Through working within and alongside over 100 councils across Australia, Peter has a strong understanding of how councils operate and function. Peter was the CEO of Keep Australia Beautiful NSW for over 5 years and has recently been made permanent as CEO of Keep Australia Beautiful National. In Peter’s time at Keep Australia Beautiful, he has successfully managed and strengthened the organisations public profile, community achievements and financial sustainability. From his strong understanding and knowledge in local government, Peter regularly advises and assists various local councils on a variety of issues including graffiti management, litter prevention, environmental practices and financial management.
Rob Millard - Chief Executive Officer, Metropolitan Waste Management Group
The direction of waste management in metropolitan Melbourne
Rob Millard commenced in the role of Chief Executive Officer for the Metropolitan Waste Management Group (MWMG) in January 2007. Rob brings to the organisation 30 years of local government experience, including 11 years as the Operations Manager at Banyule City Council where his work covered areas of fleet, cleansing, recycling and waste management.
A key focus of Rob’ work at MWMG has been to oversee the development and implementation of the Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Strategic Plan. This plan provides the strategic framework for the planning and delivery of waste management infrastructure and programs across the Melbourne metropolitan area as a means of achieving the Victorian Government’s waste reduction and resource recovery targets.
Stan Moore - National Packaging Covenant Industry Association
The Australian Packaging Covenant
Stan Moore took on the Chief Executive Officer role for the National Packaging Covenant Industry Association (NPCIA) in 2010. NPCIA is responsible for the management and administration of the Australian Packaging Covenant. Stan has been involved in packaging issues for over 18 years and includes: the negotiation and establishment of the first National Packaging Covenant, the management and analysis of the mid-term review of the NPC Mark II, and the negotiation and implementation of the new Australian Packaging Covenant.
Zandy Powell - Team Leader Education and Engagement, Metropolitan Waste Management Group
Building a framework for delivering metro wide campaigns: Learnings from ‘Get it Right on Bin Night’
Zandy Powell is Team Leader, Education and Engagement with Metropolitan Waste Management Group (MWMG) in Melbourne. Zandy has been involved in the waste sector for the past 10 years, supporting local government and industry to implement education programs and activities centred around waste minimisation and resource recovery. Some of these programs have included Healthy Sustainable Gardens program, Healthy Parks & Waterways, Get It Right On Bin Night, Waste Wise Councils, various litter prevention and public place recycling projects and other organics market development activities. Zandy has a Graduate Certificate in Sustainability, Bachelor Degree in Social Science and a Graduate Diploma of Education.
Les Robinson - Changeologist, Enabling Change
Secrets of effective behaviour change
Les Robinson is an expert on the human dimension of change. He’s well known in the sustainability sector as a trainer and facilitator. His recent book Changeology is about what it takes for groups and communities to do things they’ve never done before. His website has a wealth of resources for change makers.
Shannon Smyth - Project Officer Strategy and Policy, Metropolitan Waste Management Group
Expanding e-waste collection bandwidth: The National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme
Shannon Smyth is a Project Officer in the Strategic and Resource Efficiency team at the Metropolitan Waste Management Group. Shannon has experience in education strategy development, delivery and technical audits. He holds a Bachelor in Environmental Science and is a qualified Resource Smart facilitator. If you live in metropolitan Melbourne there is a chance he has looked at or been knee deep in your rubbish.
Kati Thompson - Training Coordinator, Green Steps/Monash University
Green Office programs: The story at different stages/models of these programs
Kati is the Training Coordinator at Green Steps, a sustainability education program based at the Monash Sustainability Institute. Before joining Green Steps, Kati managed the Local Government Program at ECO-Buy, training Victorian local government staff in green procurement. Prior to that she managed the Environment Report and staff engagement around environmental performance at New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment. Kati has a Masters in Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability, a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies, as well as an Advanced Diploma in Facilitation and a Cert IV in Workplace Training and Assessment. She is a fellow of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership.
Jan van de Graaff - National Collection Channel Manager, DHL
Expanding e-waste collection bandwidth: The National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme
Jan’s career has spanned both roles in government and industry. In 2012 DHL applied and was endorsed by the Federal Government to become an Approved Arrangement under the Computer and Television Product Stewardship Regulations. Jan joined DHL in January 2012 as National Collection Channel Manager to design and implement DHL’s service solution. In this time Jan has worked with councils, waste and resource recovery businesses and retailers to establish over 120 services nationally, including establishing partnerships with Officeworks, Harvey Norman, and Sita Australia. Prior to joining DHL Jan spent twelve years working in government with agencies such as EcoRecycle Victoria and Sustainability Victoria in a range of roles. He was responsible for the design and implementation of numerous pilot product stewardship programs such as Byteback, Flashback, and Batteryback. These roles involved developing a shared responsibility approach with a wide range of stakeholders encompassing manufacturers, brand owners, retailers, local, state and federal government and recyclers. Jan’s career has also included time working in the oil industry and working as a management consultant.
Marion van Gameren - Schools Engagement Support, Metropolitan Waste Management Group
Councils can go back to school to engage the community
Marion van Gameren has assisted a range of Victorian Government agencies and prepared over 30 sustainability education resources for schools and the community. Over the last decade she has been supporting councils and schools in her part-time Schools Engagement Support role with MWMG and previously, South Eastern Regional Waste Management Group and Western Regional Waste Management Group. Marion has been a secondary teacher (Biology, Science, Maths) and an Extension Education officer (primary and secondary schools). She is a qualified ResourceSmart AuSSI Vic Facilitator and Assessor.
Stan Vermeeren - Litter Program Coordinator, Metropolitan Waste Management Group for the Lower Yarra Litter Strategy
Doing your litter bit: Creating effective taskforces within litter programs
Stan is a highly experienced facilitator of environmental education and behavioural change programs. His background includes work as a Waste Wise Program Regional Education Officer, Manager of a Sustainable Living Centre and Director of an environmental consultancy business. He was also the President and Executive Member of AWARE Vic for over a decade and authored the WMAA’s Best Practice Guidelines for Waste Educators. In 2009 Stan established and facilitated the Council Litter Environmental Action Network (CLEAN) and has recently returned from Western Australia to Co-ordinate the Lower Yarra Litter Strategy Program and MWMG’s Litter Programs.
JP Williamson - Facilitator, Compost Revolution
Learnings from the Compost Revolution: Can online engagement replace face to face learning in community projects
JP works for a world where organic matter is always a closed loop resource, and never ‘waste’. His program, Compost Revolution, engages over 3000 households, businesses and community groups to compost successfully each year. JP is a passionate facilitator, educator and devotee of both Doug McKenzie Moor and Robin Clayfield. JP studied soil, plant and fungal biology at Sydney University. He has worked full time and freelance with over 30 councils on waste, water and education for sustainability. Outside of work JP is active in his local community, in garden, bike recycling, youth and community empowerment initiatives.
Dimensions 56.5cm long x 20cm high (the logo section is 13cm)
Dimensions approx 56cm long x 20cm wide
Dimensions approx 56cm long x 20cm wide
Dimensions 28.5cm wide x 43cm high (the logo section is 8cm)
Dimensions 28.5cm wide x 43cm high (the logo section is 8cm)
The Metropolitan Waste Management Group (MWMG) is a Victorian Government statutory body established under the Environment Protection (Amendment) Act 2006 to coordinate and facilitate the delivery of municipal solid waste management activities in metropolitan Melbourne.
Our vision is to create an integrated approach to managing waste and resource recovery in metropolitan Melbourne. Our work incorporates social, economic and environmental considerations, creates connections, provides expertise to build capacity and knowledge, delivers policy objectives and outcomes and enables best practice solutions for councils, industry and the community. www.mwmg.vic.gov.au
Sustainability Victoria (SV) promotes and facilitates the sustainable use of resources in Victoria. SV’s role is to drive sustainability by providing guidance and facilitation of practical solutions for the development of integrated waste management and resource efficiency in Victoria. www.sustainability.vic.gov.au
The Australian Packaging Covenant (APC) is a commitment by governments and industry to the sustainable design, use and recovery of packaging. Currently, over 800 organisations (business and industry, government and non-government) are signatories to the Covenant and are taking action to reduce the environmental impacts of consumer packaging. Organisations that sign the Covenant commit to:
The Covenant aims to ensure that all involved in the packaging chain play their part in reducing packaging waste. www.packagingcovenant.org.au/
FreshBins provides wheelie Bin Cleaning and Sanitation Services for residential, commercial and government instruments. At local government councils we have contracts delivering bin cleaning services for their street-scape and parkland bin sanitation requirements. FreshBins has extended its commercial sanitation services into schools, hospitals, council holiday parks, hospitality businesses and is poised to deliver a residential community-wide services as demand requires.
Health and safety is increasingly a key consideration when delivering service and FreshBins Robotic Bin sanitation truck won the 2010 Worksafe Award because:
In an environmentally responsible society where sanitation has become a community expectation, FreshBins now provides a service that can deliver high volume bin sanitation as a community-wide service at a commercially viable cost. www.freshbins.com.au
Eco Guardians specializes in economically advantageous, sustainable solutions for:
Kenmore-DMP creates prompts, tools and education materials for waste, resource recovery and sustainability programs. We bring ideas to life with creative design and produce them with sustainability in mind.
We will tell your story in plain English, using clear imagery. Our focus is on achieving your goals.
Reach. Communicate. Inspire. www.kenmore-dmp.com
EnviroCom is a leading provider of waste education, research and training to local and state government agencies and associations, industrial and commercial businesses as well as the community. From development and delivery of strategic education and behaviour change programs, corporate sustainability training to large scale waste auditing and management planning, EnviroCom’s experienced and professional team tailors outcome based projects to meet customer objectives and budgets. www.envirocom.com.au/
Thank you to all attendees, speakers and sponsors.
Over 135 people attended the Conference day from all over metropolitan Melbourne, regional Victoria, New Zealand and East Timor. We aimed for 120 delegates and were thrilled at the amazing response. Thank you all for your attendance and participation on the day, we hope you came away inspired and empowered and made new connections to continue your journey in engagement and education.
The day wouldn't have been so inspiring if it weren't for our speakers. A big thank you to our speakers from far and wide who presented, networked and participated. We had over 20 speakers and case studies from all over Australia.
This continued on day two with the tour day around Melbourne. The tours were a fabulous learning day where we heard about and saw everything from charitable recycling, e-waste recycling and community gardening. A huge thank you to all the hosts who were so generous in giving their time to share their projects.
Last but not least, a massive thank you to our principal sponsors Fresh Bins and the Australian Packaging Covenant and to our other valued sponsors EcoGuardians, Kenmore DMP and EnviroCom. The Conference couldn't have happened without you.
Read the full bios of our speakers and presenters here.
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Ed Net session
Click here for the PDF of Buy Nothing New Month's extensive media coverage.
City of Monash "Don't Trash Monash" presentation (460kb)
Green Steps at Work Melbourne (103kb)
Green Steps internship information (287kb)
Green steps MWMG educators (916kb)
SEN Session
Minutes (28kb)
Survey results (29kb)
Frankston City Council Teachers Environmental Network presentation (626kb)
Frankston City Council Teachers Environmental Network Flyer (462kb)
RS Aussi Vic Initiative Council support template (60kb)
The Victorian Government through MWMG in partnership with metropolitan councils is building a sustainable organics infrastructure network for metropolitan Melbourne. This will include the development of a network of new facilities in the north-west, south-east and east of Melbourne.
The aim of the Metropolitan Organics Plan is to increase the recovery, processing and beneficial use of organic waste (garden and food) collected by metropolitan councils.
The plan is supported by a $3.8 million funding package announced by the Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Ryan Smith. The funding will support the development of new facilities and help develop viable markets for the end-product, composts and fertilisers. Read the minister’s media release here.
North west
MWMG has completed a competitive tendering process on behalf of 11 councils in the north and west of Melbourne for the provision of processing services for organic waste.
Veolia Environmental Services has been selected as the preferred tenderer for establishing organics processing facilities. Veolia's tender proposes building two organics processing facilities, one in Bulla and the other in Werribee.
Learn more about the Northern and Western Organics Processing Contract here.
South east
MWMG is working with eight councils in the south east of Melbourne. Tender documents for the procurement of organics processing facilities for this region are finalised.
Tender submissions are now closed. The evaluation of all submitted tenders will take place in the first half of 2013.
The procurement process will undertake a feasibility study for suitable location for developing a new organics facility to service this region.
Learn more about the South Eastern Organics Processing Contract here.
East
MWMG is seeking nominations of officers from the five eastern councils to be involved in the organics processing procurement for these councils. MWMG will work with the officers in 2013 to develop procurement approaches that will meet the councils’ needs.
Market development is a priority to ensure the long-term viability of organics processing.
$500,000 was recently announced by the Minister for Environment and Climate Change to investigate viable long term solutions. Visit Sustainability Victoria for more information on this initiative.
MWMG offers market development programs in conjunction with the community and local governments.
The Healthy Sustainable Gardens (HSG) program promotes the collection and recycling of household green organics into compost and mulch, for use on residential and municipal gardens across Melbourne.
Healthy Parks, Ovals and Waterways (HPOW) was developed by MWMG with assistance from the Centre for Organic Resource and Enterprises (CORE) to pilot and showcase the use of certified recycled organic products to the local government sector.
Future market development priorities include the establishment of specifications and standards the use of organics in agriculture and horticulture. including Compost Victoria’s demonstrational compost trials in horticulture. Read more below.
Demonstrational Compost Trials
MWMG is supporting Compost Victoria conduct demonstrational compost trials in horticulture. The trials will be conducted in the Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley on strawberry, blueberry, blackberry and raspberry crops.
Compost trials are an integral part of implementing a market development program for recycled organic products. The aim is to demonstrate the benefits of using compost and mulch products to the horticulture industry as well as relationship building within target markets. Compost Victoria will be working on this project with growers, their associations, including Strawberry Victoria and Australian Rubus Growers Association and their Industry Development Officers.
Soil analysis will be conducted prior to the trial and at the end of the cropping season. Reports and case studies will be produced focusing on the benefits of using composts in conventional horticulture.
For more information on the trial, please contact Slobodan Vujovic, Market & Industry Development Office at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
MWMG has received several enquiries from metropolitan councils following the publication of a media release by Mark Dreyfus, Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency on 22 May and a subsequent Sustainability and Climate Change e-Alert by Maddocks on 25 May.
The e-Alert, citing Minister Dreyfus' media release, notes that: "Government has made rules deeming landfill emissions in 2012/13 to be zero, so councils with large landfills will have no carbon price obligation in 2012/13". The obligation being referred to involves the obligation on liable entities - that is a council owned and operated landfill with annual emissions greater than 25,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (T/CO2e) - to report their emissions and submit sufficient carbon permits to cover their emissions liability to the Federal Government.
The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme (NGERS) sets out the rules, known as a Measurement Determination, for calculating emissions from waste, as well as other industries. Under these rules, there are no reportable emissions in the year waste is deposited at a landfill. This delay in emissions takes into account an assumed delay in the production of methane associated with waste decomposing over time. While the Determination is currently being updated by the Federal Government, there has been no change recommended to the delay in emissions arising.
The Federal Government recently released a second fact sheet relating to landfills and carbon pricing. Read it here. This indicates one option for landfill operators is to charge up front for the future emissions liability associated with waste deposited.
MWMG advises councils to prepare 2012/13 budgets assuming a charge for waste deposited from 1 July 2012 will include the cost of emissions. The five major landfill operators servicing metropolitan Melbourne councils have all indicated a carbon price will be applied for waste deposited from 1 July 2012.
MWMG will shortly be arranging its third round of council landfill user group meetings, for both contracted and non-contracted councils, to discuss and prepare for the introduction of the carbon tax from 1 July 2012. Further information about the impact of carbon pricing is available from the MWMG website http://www.mwmg.vic.gov.au or by contacting Mr Maurie Schultz on 03 8698 9820 or Mr Hamish Walker on 03 8698 9818.
MWMG has developed information papers to summarise the ways that carbon pricing are likely to affect waste management in metropolitan Melbourne. The papers address the carbon pricing mechanism, the carbon farming initiative, materials and energy recovery, the Federal Government’s Clean Energy Future Plan and what council waste managers can do.
Info Paper 1: Implications of carbon pricing for waste management in metropolitan MelbourneClean Energy Future and Carbon Pricing (80Kb)
Info Paper 2: mwmgcleanenergyfutureandcarbonpricing_no2.pdf (84Kb)
Presentations from the Association of Victorian Regional Waste Management Groups (AVRWMG) Carbon & Organics Forum are also available for download below.
Resources:
For further information on carbon pricing for waste management in metropolitan Melbourne, please contact either Hamish Walker, Senior Project Manager, on 8698 9818 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Maurie Schultz, Senior Project Manager, 8698 9820 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
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