A resource page on Canberra’s municipal waste policies and responses with links to some Conservation Council materials, ACT Government documents and a few other places.
Conservation Council
- 20 July 2016 – Waste Management and Resource Recovery Bill 2016 comments on final ACT legislation before it went to a vote in the Assembly and went through unopposed
- 18 January 2016 – Comments on draft Waste Management and Resource Recovery Bill 2015
- 9 October 2015 – Options for long-term waste reduction and management in the Australian Capital Territory A report drafted for Conservation Council, ACT Region Lauren de Waal, an Intern with the Australian National Internships Program
- October 2014 – Food waste: Extent of the Issue and Current Interventions in ACT – A report drafted for the Conservation Council by Sandesh Silpakar, an intern with the Australian National Internships Program
- April 2013 – Mugga Lane Landfill Expansion comments on a proposal
ACT Government
- 2016 – Waste Management and Resource Recovery Act 2016
- 2011 – ACT Waste Management Strategy: Towards a sustainable Canberra 2011–2025, Reducing waste and recovering resources to achieve a sustainable, carbon-neutral Canberra
- July 2008 – ACT N0 Waste Strategy & Targets: Review & Assessment of Options Wright Corporate Strategy
- 2006 – No Waste by 2010: leading the way Christopher Horsey ACT NOWaste, Department Urban Services, Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government
- July 2004 – Data Reliability for Reporting on the ACT ‘No Waste By 2010’ Strategy, ACT Auditor-General’s Office Performance Audit Report
- 2001 – NO WASTE BY 2010 an outline of the development of the strategy and some of the early steps and plans to achieve it by Graham Mannall of ACT NOWaste
- 2000 – Progress towards No Waste by 2010, Dr Jo Baker, ACT Commissioner for the Environment. This inquiry was initiated by the Commissioner, not directed by the Government and was the first, and so far only, inquiry to be initiated by a Commissioner in the ACT
- 1996 – No waste by 2010 the original ACT Government waste strategy which had the eponymous target to get to no waste by 2010
Page of links to various audits and reports http://www.tccs.act.gov.au/recycling-and-waste/resources/reports-and-forms/reports-and-audits
Other links
- October 2016 – How we got a whole lot of students to care about food waste Dr Miranda Mirosa, University of Otago (conference presentation) miranda.mirosa@otago.ac.nz
- Recovering organic waste in the ACT SESL Australia (consultancy service – environmental, soil, water and plant science laboratory)
- September 2011 – Banning plastic bags: real change, or a cosmetic solution? Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Government, University of Canberra
