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Domestic Waste Management
The Domestic Waste Management Charge
The Domestic Waste Management Charge (DWMC) is an annual charge levied for the availability and actual provision of waste management services provided to all domestic premises under Sections 496 and 504 of the Local Government Act 1993. All domestic properties are charged the DWMC “Availability Charge” that covers costs associated with making services potentially available to all domestic premises. The annual DWMC “Services Charge” is levied on domestic properties receiving domestic waste management services.
Council operates a Waste Management Restricted Reserve (WMRR) to manage waste budget cost pressures and unforeseen budget impacts, contract variation costs, funding for one-off non-recurrent projects, waste asset replacements, managing historical landfills and to assist minimise any budgetary shocks from costs associated with providing domestic waste management services or improving resource recovery outcomes. Council is prohibited from funding domestic waste management services from its ordinary rates and is required to fund these services from the DWMC and the WMRR. Domestic Waste Management Services include:
Domestic kerbside garbage, recycling and green waste collection services (excluding user pays services)
Domestic bulky waste collection services (excluding user pays services) Waste, recyclables, organics and bulky waste acceptance, processing, recycling and disposal services
Customer services including Waste Hotline, face to face counter and online support services Community engagement, education and communication services associated with the provision of domestic services Waste compliance activities associated with the provision of domestic services including development control activities, managing bulky collections and illegal dumping management Waste management strategic planning, procurement and contract management activities, administrative support services of the Waste Management Branch and associated council corporate overheads.
Domestic Waste Management Charge Calculation
The DWMC reflects the reasonable costs of providing waste management and associated services to domestic premises. The DWMC is calculated to cover the costs of providing domestic waste management services and to maintain a Waste Management Restricted Reserve in accordance with Council’s Restricted Asset Account – Waste Reserve Policy.
Domestic Waste Management costs for 2022/23 include:
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Collection services
Disposal services Green waste processing Recyclables acceptance Waste Services direct operating costs Council corporate overheads TOTAL 2022/23
$11,640,050 $10,147,700 $2,600,000 $690,024 $4,033,119
$1,057,538 $30,168,431
Domestic Waste Management
INCOME for 2022/23
Type of service
Single Unit Dwelling / up to 5-storey Multi Unit Dwelling (SUD) High Rise Multi Unit Dwelling (MUD – 6-storeys and above) Vacant land availability
Additional user pay bin services Sub-Total Pensioner Rebate
TOTAL Number of users Availability of service charge Annual service charge
TOTAL $ per serviced property pa $ and % increase from 2021/22 Service charge revenue
48,414 $106 $530 $636 $91.50 16.8% -$30,791,304
4,088 $106 $425 $531 $83.50 18.7%
748 $106 $18.50 21.1% -$2,170,728
-$79,288
-$1,240,759 TOTAL
-$34,282,079 $480,000 -$33,802,079
The resulting surplus income of $3,633,648 will be transferred to the Waste Reserve to fund:
Historical landfill environmental management and remediation works of $1,250,000 FOGO transition gradualisation (increase 1 of 3) of $2,383,648 or 34% of the estimated $7 million per annum.
Council has increased the availability charge and the domestic waste management service charge to recover revenue for the reasonable cost associated with:
Increased waste service contract costs for collections, recycling processing, green waste composting and landfill disposal because of contract rise and fall conditions and scheduled price rate increases Increased waste generation rates for green waste and waste to landfill resulting in increased costs Increased costs for environmental management and remediation of historical landfills within the Shire Preparing for estimated $7 million per annum Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) collection and processing services in 2024/25 or 2025/26 (*Subject to Waste Strategy review and adoption by Council) through staged gradualisation increases to avoid a shock step increase when transitioning to the new service. If you have any questions, please call Council’s Waste Manager on 9847 4816.
