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| Tuesday, May 2, 2017 |
| 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM |
| Osprey Room |
Overview
FOGO Shellharbour- Ten-year journey towards a sustainable kerbside waste collection.
Dianne Tierney, Shellharbour City Council
Details
Shellharbour City Council owns and operates its own landfill at Dunmore. The landfill’s finite life is a major challenge for Council. Redevelopments at this site completes a ten-year journey towards sustainable kerbside collection.
Our journey commenced in 2007 to engage the community on waste related challenges and opportunities for the ongoing management of household waste.
The implementation of a fortnightly collection of the red, yellow and green bins was an interim solution, to introducing a weekly Food Organics Garden Organics (FOGO) collection service.
This presentation will describe the journey undertaken in implementing a FOGO waste collection service in Shellharbour.
Speaker
Mrs Dianne Tierney
FOGO Shellharbour- Ten-year journey towards a sustainable kerbside waste collection
2:00 PM - 2:20 PMBiography
Dianne is a Technical Waste Officer for Shellharbour City Council, located in the Illawarra Region, about 100 kilometres south of Sydney. Currently the City serves a community of 67,830 people living in 25,136 households. Prior to joining Shellharbour Dianne was a Senior Strategic Environmental Planner at Hawkesbury City Council, and before that the Coordinator of Environmental and Waste Branch. Dianne has a Bachelor of Applied Science with a major in Environment Health and is passionate about developing sustainable waste management systems.
Mrs Sue Fletcher
Technical Waste Officer
Shellharbour City Council
FOGO Shellharbour- Ten-year journey towards a sustainable kerbside waste collection.
2:00 PM - 2:20 PMBiography
Sue is a Technical Waste Officer for Shellharbour City Council, located in the Illawarra Region, about 100 kilometres south of Sydney. Currently the City serves a community of 67,830 people living in 25,136 households. Prior to joining Shellharbour Sue was a Community Relations/Education Officer with REMONDIS Australia. Her responsibilities included developing innovative Waste Education programs to education the Shellharbour community about recycling, waste management and waste minimisation strategies. Sue has a Bachelor of Environmental Science (Honors).
Chairperson
Tim Silverwood
Co-Founder & CEO
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