INSIDE WASTE: June/July 2017

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In 2012, Dial A Dump Industries opened the Genesis Recycling Facility in Sydney’s western suburbs (pictured). Now, the company wants to build an EfW plant The Next Generation - and is urging the community, sector, and governments to judge the project on its merits. More on page 16. (Source: Dial A Dump Industries)

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Local Law 20 anti-competitive

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The Victorian government has released its 2017-18 budget, noting that the state’s economy is “one of the strongest in Australia” and had experienced a 3.3% growth in 2015-16, which is above the national average of 2.7% over the same period. $162.5 million will be invested to modernise the EPA and the budget includes a broad statement: “Greater investment will also be made in the waste and resource recovery sector, generating jobs in regional areas. Steps will also be taken to keep e-waste out of landfill and foster Victoria’s emerging waste to energy market.”

CEO of the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR), Grant Musgrove, said some $20 million has been earmarked to be returned to industry, which is

disappointing considering the state’s budget surplus is being propped up by the landfill levy.

ACOR’s Victorian Landfill Levy Report released in May noted that approximately 20% of the state’s surplus comes from the Sustainability Fund or monies collected from the landfill levy, which it said should be returned to industry to drive recycling initiatives.

“It’s a national disgrace with only $20 million earmarked to be returned to industry and local government over the next four years, compared to hundreds of millions of dollars in other states.”

Musgrove said, adding that ACOR estimates the Sustainability Fund will have approximately $500 million sitting idle by the end of this financial year.

“The waste and recycling sector is being taxed to prop up the state budget and not enough money is being invested in improving the waste and resource recovery industry in Victoria,” Musgrove said.

“Victorians would be shocked at this budget trick. The community supports recycling, yet the government is taxing unavoidable residues from recycling.”

Musgrove is urging the government to allocate the money sitting in the Fund to industry in order to drive development and implement resource recovery and recycling initiatives, pointing to the other states, namely NSW and SA, which have substantial funding by way of the latter’s Waste to Resources Fund and the former’s Waste Less Recycle More initiative.

THE City of Gold Coast’s proposed Local Law 20 (Waste Management) 2017 is anti-competitive and offers no public benefit, says the Waste, Recycling Industry Association of Queensland (WRIQ).

WRIQ acknowledged that domestic waste management is one of local government’s roles and assured that industry is not trying to “usurp” Council’s role in providing these services.

However, the association’s members were “gravely concerned” that Council is seeking to restrict competition in the commercial waste and recycling sector without proper consultation or genuine consideration of the impact of the proposed law.

CEO Rick Ralph said the proposed law would result in higher prices for consumers without a commensurate increase in quality or innovation.

“The proposed local law is anticompetitive in that it allows Council to create a monopoly over commercial waste collection services in designated areas, thereby creating a barrier to competition in that market,” Ralph said, adding that the proposed law may extend further to all forms of waste collection and disposal, creating uncertainty for business moving forward.

He said the proposed law would not create public benefit but would create a long-term detriment to the Queensland public and market. More on page 22.

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Let the games begin!

INSIDE Waste has been busy, racing around town and across continents as conference season has well and truly begun.

The annual Coffs conference was a blast and as always, the three-day event was filled with insightful presentations and networking opportunities. This year, a record number of people made their way to Coffs Harbour, with numbers nearly hitting the 600-person mark.

The dinner took on a 1970s theme so you can imagine the outfits delegates arrived in. Many said they had to visit the op-shop to find something suitable but just so you know, we do not believe you though we’re not judging anyone for having that bell-bottoms or paisley shirt stashed away in the cupboard.

More on page 32.

Over in the US, Waste Expo USA delivered innovative solutions, education and all around good vibes to the North American waste and recycling sector as some 15,000 people gathered in New Orleans over four days to discuss the trends, challenges, and technologies in the market.

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There were 650 displays of the latest tools, products and services and Inside Waste reported live from the event (more on www.insidewaste.com.au).

Noteworthy presentations focussed on big data, the future of mixed waste processing, digitalisation of waste and recycling, and risk management particularly around fire incidents.

More on page 36.

The Australian Organics Recycling Association also held its National Conference in May, centred on recycled organics - healthy soil and healthy food in a circular economy. Again, we reported from the event but turn to page 38 for more on the ongoing Australian Biomass and Bioenergy Assessment project.

Over in Victoria, a few councils including the City of Greater Bendigo are pushing the energy from waste agenda. The latter is considering an EfW facility as part of an internal waste review while in Central Victoria, other councils are planning to expand an ongoing EfW trial. Turning to NSW, Dial A Dump Industries’ Ian Malouf has proposed to build a $700 million EfW

plant in Eastern Creek, 35km west of Sydney.

Malouf spoke to Inside Waste about the challenges the company has faced to date and his ongoing work to clear up misconceptions and combat partial quotes.

He is urging the sector, community, and governments to judge the project on its merits and rely on the science instead of the politics. On page 16, Malouf offers details in a bid to address concerns that have surfaced.

And while we’re talking about advanced technologies, Veolia’s first mechanical biological treatment plant in Woodlawn, south of Sydney is in the midst of commissioning. 10 years in the making, the facility will service the Southern Sydney Region of Councils and has been designed to process more than 140,000 tonnes of household waste a year.

The facility began taking waste in March and Veolia says it expects the site to be up to full capacity “within the next few weeks”. More on page 18.

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Profile | Tanya Henley Tanya Henley is a senior waste consultant with Jacobs and is currently working with a number of NSW regional groups of councils to re-develop their waste strategies and action plans. Tanya is also Chair of WMAA NSW Young Professionals that works to empower and provide career development opportunities for young professionals.

What was your first job in the sector and what attracted you to it?

I moved into the waste team at SLR from the air quality discipline in 2013. I was inspired by the diverse range of work available, the growth of the industry in Australia, and the people.

Favourite part of your current job?

Taking a step back to see the bigger picture and brainstorming with my peers at Jacobs. There is so much information out there in the world of waste - I like hunting for case study data, collating gems of knowledge from people working in different spheres of the industry, and distilling this into a neat package for my clients.

Strangest/funniest thing you’ve found or had to do?

Explaining to a member of the public during a beach litter audit that ‘no, the areas marked out for our litter audit are not an attempt to communicate with aliens’.

How has waste management and resource recovery changed in your time in the industry?

There is more involvement in providing sustainable waste infrastructure for disadvantaged communities but more needs to be done. All the construction occurring in and around our cities right now has also shown a lack of forethought in regards to waste management by the state government planning department smarter waste planning outcomes are needed to avoid further long-term health and safety, and amenity impacts.

Why should young professionals consider a career in this sector?

Waste is one of the largest growth sectors in Australia right now. Waste management professionals are also a delight to be around - they are problem solvers, logistical thinkers, project managers, facilitators, and innovators in education and engagement.

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Swire to sell Alex Fraser FOLLOWING a global strategic review, John Swire & Sons has decided to sell C&D recycler Alex Fraser.

“While this news means Alex Fraser will transition to a new owner, I want you to know the leadership group will be working, with the support of Swire, to make that transition as smooth as possible for all employees,” Alex Fraser managing director Peter Murphy wrote to employees, adding that he expected the sale process to take about 12 months.

Alex Fraser, which has eight facilities in Melbourne and Brisbane, has more than 200 employees and is in the business of recycling construction and demolition waste into a range of sustainable materials for the civil construction industry, including asphalt, road base and aggregate materials. To date, it has recycled more than 40 million tonnes of

materials. It also offers building waste material collection, offering services such as recycling bins, customised batch processing bins, truck hire, and custom pick-up services.

Swire chairman Geoffrey Cundle said he expected Alex Fraser to attract strong interest from astute investors.

“Alex Fraser is a high quality business; the last three years have been three of its most productive and profitable. It is well managed, with an excellent safety culture, strong sustainability credentials and excellent long-term growth prospects,” Cundle said.

“Having recently conducted a global review, Swire has determined Alex Fraser does not fit its core strategic objectives. The business is very well positioned and now is a good time for a new owner to capitalise on the significant growth in the industry.”

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Profile | Acacia Waste Heading Management Solutions When was the company founded and why?

Acacia Waste Management Solutions Pty Ltd (AWMS) was founded in January 2017 to provide tailor-made, sustainable, socially acceptable and cost-effective ideas and solutions to waste and environmental issues based on the principle of collaboration, innovation and integration.

What are the key services AWMS offers?

AWMS’ insight into waste and environmental issues, legislative knowledge and technical skills will be utilised to provide a broad spectrum of waste management services, but not limited to: analysis/reviews, strategies/plans, audits/ assessments, policies/procedures, training, and design. AWMS specialises in providing futuristic alternative landfill capping solutions (phytocapping).

How has the sector changed in the last decade and how will AWMS help its clients evolve with the industry?

The waste sector has evolved rapidly in the last decade with significant and prominent changes to guidelines, policies, standards, and regulations. There has been a huge shift in how we manage waste facilities with a strong emphasis on resource recovery and the circular economy. The sector now is steering towards more sustainable and long-term outcomes than focussing on task/ project-based outputs. AWMS can assist with mapping an organisation’s current state and providing them with a roadmap to achieve their sustainable long-term outcomes in a cost-effective manner.

What are some of the company’s goals and plans for the next 12-18 months?

AWMS’ goal is to mitigate waste and environmental management issues, enhance resource recovery, divert waste from landfill and provide better community outcomes through improved analysis, planning, technology and social awareness locally.

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Bingo unveils offer price BINGO has officially released its prospectus, revealing a share offer price of $1.80 per share. The offer is an initial public offering of 244.2 million new shares in hopes of raising $440 million in equity. This represents 70% of the shares on issue at completion and the Tartak family, which owns Bingo, will retain 30% in a holding worth $188 million.

The family will further collect $348 million in cash from the float and $72 million in proceeds following the sale of property holdings into the listed entity, meaning the Tartaks stand to collect $420 million.

Bingo predominantly operates in NSW and its core markets are building and demolition waste as well as commercial and industrial waste.

The company has a network of nine resource recovery and recycling centres across the state. It also has a fleet of 158 collection vehicles and a bin manufacturing and supply operation with more than 17,800 bins across a range of types and purposes.

Bingo was acquired by Tony Tartak in 2005 for less than $1 million and the family has turned it into a $628 million business in 12 years. In FY17, Bingo is forecasted to generate $203.4 million of revenue. Further, despite only commencing in FY14, the company’s C&I waste collection operation is 8

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expected to generate $31.7 million in revenue in FY17, with growth largely driven by market share gains.

“Bingo expects that it will achieve a compound annual growth rate of 61% in pro forma EBITDA from FY15 to FY17, largely driven by its strategy to provide a differentiated approach to waste management and its investment in recycling infrastructure and collections capacity,” Bingo chairman Michael Coleman, who is also a director of Macquarie Group, lead manager of the IPO, said.

“This approach is centred on targeting a high level of service, supported by scale efficiencies, internally developed customer management technology, a strategic network of resource recovery and recycling infrastructure and vertical integration across waste collection, separation, processing and recycling.

“Bingo expects strong earnings growth and cashflows to continue over the forecast period as a result of continued growth across its diversified customer base, as well as recent and ongoing investment across its network to expand its operational capability and geographical reach.”

Net profit after tax for FY17 and FY18 have been forecasted to be $31.3 million and $40.7 million respectively.

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QLD’s recovery rates revealed Headline wastes generated and recovery rates in QLD, 2015-16 (Source: QLD Department of Environment and Heritage Protection).

THE Queensland government has released its 2016 Recycling and Waste in Queensland report, which revealed that in 2015-16, 9.2 million tonnes of headline wastes, i.e. municipal, commercial and industrial, and commercial and demolition waste, were reported, a 726,0000-tonne (8.6%) increase from the year before.

However, the overall recovery rate has improved, from 43.5% in 2014-15 to 44.1% in 2015-16. The recovery rate for each stream in 2015-16 were: 33% for MSW, 47% for C&I, and 50% for C&D. All up, more than four million tonnes of waste were diverted from landfill.

Private facilities - landfills, monofills and incinerators - disposed of 54% of headline wastes sent for disposal, up from 50% in 2014-15. In particular, private landfills disposed of 13% MSW, 53% of C&I waste, and 93% of C&D waste.

Turning to local government, 1.3 million tonnes of mixed domestic waste was picked up by the weekly council kerbside collection, representing a

3% increase per capita from 2014-15 but an 8% increase per capita since 2009-10. It is worth noting that population has increased by 1.3% from the year before and the economy has grown by 3.2% over the same period.

175,000 households have a regular kerbside green waste collection service, an increase from 154,000 in 2014-15.

It also cost local governments $17.7 million to deal with 12,600 tonnes of illegally disposed waste.

Turning to interstate waste, 556,000 tonnes of waste from interstate sources were sent to landfills in Queensland, an increase from 353,000 tonnes (60.5%) in 2014-15.

ARENA announces funding for EfW projects AT Waste 2017 in Coffs Harbour in May, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced that it has committed more than half a million dollars to two energy from waste projects.

“The first one is for the Mount Mt Alexander Sustainability Group. ARENA is providing $150,000 for a study to assess both technical and commercial merits of localised smaller scale energy from waste that would leverage organic waste from the local area and driving and delivering renewable energy to the surrounding area,” Walden said.

“This is quite exciting and the stakeholder group involved includes the local water authority, the regional council, and a couple of large industrial users. Hopefully they will deliver a project that becomes a model for other regional areas.”

RE Group and Energy Australia will also be receiving funding, this time to the tune of $400,000 to complete a

comprehensive feasibility study into the development of a dedicated EfW facility.

The study will assess the viability of converting part of a coal-fired power station in Lithgow, in the Central Tablelands of NSW. The proposed $60 million project will have the capacity to generate some 13mW of clean, reliable base-load energy and the project involves installing a purpose-built boiler.

“The proposed project will consider the technical and commercial feasibility of integrating an energy from waste furnace into an existing Mount Piper coal-fired power station in Lithgow,” Walden said.

“The project, through the use of the RDF, will displace fossil fuels and from ARENA’s perspective, this is a very reputable model, considering the number of fossil generators around the country. Should the project proceed, it will be the first of a kind deployment in Australia.”

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Leading the sector into the digital era IN December, global supplier of software and technology AMCS Group entered the Australian market through the acquisition of Australian Software Professionals (ASP), the company behind Wastedge. AMCS said Australia is a prime market because of its green approach and the company wants to help the sector get its head around the data explosion that is occurring.

Headquartered in Limerick, Ireland, AMCS offers an end-to-end suite of software and vehicle technology to the waste and resource recovery sector. Its 350-man team works across the globe, with offices in the UK, central Europe, the US, Australia, and New Zealand.

Among its range of solutions are AMCS Route Planner, an optimisation system for residential and commercial waste routes, as well as AMCS Fleet Planner, which is the company’s standard solution for real-time planning, optimisation and dispatching of distribution and collection routes.

“There were two key drivers that led to our investment in Australia. One, we were very interested in the Australian market - it’s green and technology

is a key driver in this market. We chase markets that are driven by that green approach,” AMCS sales manager Australia and New Zealand Gerard Kissane said.

Kissane told Inside Waste that the company is keen to capture opportunities in Australia, particularly around weighing, which he said the company has a big focus on.

The other pie AMCS will have its fingers in is optimisation of assets and resources, particularly as it has proven technology by way of Fleet Planner and Route Planner.

“These are the systems we hope to bring to the market over the next few months, along with our digital engagement platform,” Kissane said.

Former ASP CEO Terry Daley, who will stay on for 18 months to consult on marketing and sales, stressed that route optimisation technology is becoming more important, highlighting that today, dynamic optimisation can factor in anything including traffic and other conditions, and AMCS’ end-toend systems can certainly play a key role as the sector evolves.

“Then there’s the bulky waste side of things as well. In Australia and New Zealand, optimisation of bulky waste or ad-hoc services is happening,” Daley said.

“There are also sub-contractors looking to collaborate with the bigger guys. If there are lots of SMEs and smaller enterprises that look after a particular region in the country or perhaps are out in the bush, they will need to collaborate and have their systems work with similar systems in other companies.”

Weight-based billing is another area that AMCS is keeping an eye on, particularly as it is “starting to move faster in Australia.” And the great news is, AMCS is well-prepared if and when Australia transitions to a weight-based billing system.

“Ireland was one of the first countries to bring in weight-based billing by legislation and [when that transition happens] all trucking companies will look for on-board weighing systems and on-board RFID to integrate into their trucks,” CEO Jimmy Martin said.

“That’s the kind of technology we’re hoping to drive in Australia. It’s still

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early days compared to Europe but at least it’s started, which is a good sign.

[Driving weight-based billing] comes down to policy, costs, the ability to get in, and transparency across the board.

But the key driver is the customer and how you charge your customer and ensure transparency across the process. It’s a big culture change,” Kissane added.

Martin noted that in Australia, larger commercial customers have become more savvy about their waste streams and materials that are being collected.

As such, they have started to look for granular data around what is going into these bins as well as recycling, all of which could be driven by ISOs and regulations.

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News // ResourceCo will be constructing two AWT plants to transform selected non-recyclable waste streams into PEF.

Barrow Island contract goes to Cleanaway

ResourceCo to build AWT plants RESOURCECO will soon construct two alternative waste treatment plants (AWTs) in Australia, thanks to a $30 million loan from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

The facilities will transform selected non-recyclable waste streams into solid fuel, otherwise known as Processed Engineered Fuel (PEF). The first plant is to be built at Wetherill Park in Sydney and the second will be located in another Australian state yet to be announced.

The PEF will initially be used locally but will also be exported as an alternative to coal and gas for cement kilns in Asia.

CEFC bioenergy and energy from waste sector lead Henry Anning said PEF demonstrated the incredible potential to transform waste that would otherwise go into landfill into a baseload energy source as part of

Australia’s future clean energy mix, while also lowering emissions.

“Our research into the bioenergy sector has identified investment opportunities of between $2.2 billion and $3.3 billion to 2020 in the urban waste industry. Commercial viability has been driven by a combination of rising landfill gate fees and falling technology costs,” Anning said.

“Waste levies in states such as NSW, the ACT, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria are improving the business case for this kind of alternative use of the waste, rather than it going into landfill.”

The Wetherill Park plant, which is expected to be commissioned and operational by March 2018, will process around 150,000 tonnes of waste a year to produce PEF and recover other commodities such as metal, clean timber, and inert materials.

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CLEANAWAY has been awarded a contract for the provision of waste management services to Chevron Australia, and among the sites it will be servicing is Barrow Island.

In April, Toxfree announced that it would cease services to Chevron on its Gorgon LNG project on Barrow Island after seven years of service.

From July 1, Cleanaway will provide waste management services including the collection, processing, treatment and disposal of all solid waste, recycling and liquid waste across a number of Chevron-operated sites in Western Australia.

In addition to Barrow Island, these sites are Thevenard Island, Wheatstone LNG Plant, North West Supply Bases and Warehouses and Perth Supply Bases and Warehouses.

The majority of waste will be processed at Cleanaway’s Karratha site, with recyclables being sent to the company’s materials recycling facility (MRF) in Perth, which started operations in May 2017.

Cleanaway general manager - solids,

David Williamson, said the company recently established an agreement with the Thalanyji people, the traditional owners of the lands near Onslow (WA) to provide business and employment opportunities to the local community.

“We are very proud to be awarded this contract and look forward to working with Chevron Australia to deliver a safe and efficient waste management service,” Williamson said.

“We are also excited to be working with the Thalanyji people to provide genuine opportunities for employment within the local community - making a sustainable future possible for all Australians.”

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Vic councils push EfW agenda THE City of Greater Bendigo in Northern Victoria, is said to be considering an energy from waste facility as part of its internal waste review while there are plans to expand an ongoing EfW trial in Central Victoria.

However, for the City of Greater Bendigo to embark on this capital intensive project, Council would likely need to partner with neighbouring councils or the private sector.

Speaking to Bendigo Advertiser, City of Greater Bendigo director presentation and assets, Craig Lloyd, said Council was looking at sustainable long-term resource recovery alternatives and would seek to partner with neighbouring councils such as Mount Alexander Shire, as well as private business to “help spread the substantial start-up costs”.

Mount Alexander Shire, which

recently passed a motion to stop building more landfills - some 88% of the shire’s greenhouse gas emissions come from landfill - said it was “open” to collaborating.

“We’ve got to look at how we are dealing with our waste - it’s not efficient at the moment,” Mayor Sharon Telford told the newspaper.

Elsewhere in the state, the Central Victorian Greenhouse Alliance (CVGA)

and Hepburn Shire Council are in the midst of an EfW trial and a business plan has been developed to expand this trial to 70 EfW, micro-power stations across six regional shires including the City of Ballarat, at a cost of $33 million.

According to CVGA, these power stations would divert more than 43,000 tonnes of organic waste from landfill, and be equivalent to a 6mW power plant.

Nyrstar expands e-waste processing capabilities

SOUTH Australia is the only state in the country that has banned e-waste from landfill and to ensure that the state has the capabilities to process these materials, Nyrstar will be expanding its Port Pirie facility.

Following the upgrade, the plant will be able to accept a wider range of electronic products, including printed computer circuit boards, cathode ray tubes as well as mobile phones and related devices.

It will also accept photovoltaic cells from roof solar panels, alkaline batteries, and potentially other batteries such as lead acid and nickel cadmium.

“The transformation of the Nyrstar Port Pirie smelter to a multi-metals processing and recovery facility will also provide the technology to process e-waste, including printed circuit boards, television screens, mobile phones and alkaline batteries,” Nyrstar vice president, metals refining, Bertus de Villiers said.

“Featuring proven state-of-the-art technology available in Europe, Asia and North America, the site will be Australia’s first e-waste treatment facility, helping to reduce landfill and recover valuable metal to reuse in

consumer products.”

Nyrstar expects to start treating e-waste from 2018, beginning with 3000 tonnes per annum and increasing to more than 20,000 tonnes a year as the facility ramps up. It also expects to recover 98% of metal content.

“Nyrstar’s expansion will improve the state’s waste processing infrastructure capacity and reinforce our leadership in waste management and resource recovery,” SA Environment Minister Ian Hunter said, adding that the expansion will make the Port Pirie plant the biggest e-waste facility in Australia.

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Bio Gro turns to Backhus FAMILY-OWNED manufacturer of growing and mulching mediums, soil amendments, and biological growth stimulants, Bio Gro has turned to GCM for its windrow turning needs.

The company recently purchased a Backhus A50 windrow turner from GCM and Bio Gro managing director Stephen Van Schaik told Inside Waste he was impressed with GCM’s service.

“When we did the initial due diligence on the project, we compared the practice with a number of other players within the market and Daniel [Katsowksky, GCM managing director] went through quite a bit of detail. He listened to our needs and with the new model, specifically the improvements from the old model, made it a good choice for us,” Van Schaik said.

“The general makeover of the machine, the operator comfort versus the old machine, the overall technical improvements, fuel efficiencies…. they were some of the key improvements

that we were impressed with.”

The Backhus A50, which sits in the A43-65 range, combines high efficiency with maximum optionality.

Features include: • windrow width up to 5m; • windrow height up to 2.4m; • granular size up to 300mm; • turning capacity up to 3600m3/h; • rotor torque - 12,500Nm • Volvo TAD 8X3 VE 235kW (320hp) @2200 engine; • 6-cylinder; and • speed forwards and backwards 0-60m/min.

Additionally, the machine offers high performance, low fuel consumption, can be customised for any task, features a comfortable and easily accessible panoramic cabin, and easy access for routine maintenance and service.

Bio Gro processes a little over 300,000 tonnes of organic waste a year and Van Schaik said the new machine has improved the company’s efficiencies.

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“We put a whole range of organic material into our windrows and once the windrow is formed, we run the A50 through it and as an example of operating efficiencies and improvements, those windrows were generally turned by a front end loader, which would generally take about 35-40 minutes to turn a windrow. The A50 would do it in less than 10 minutes,” he said.

“The actual turn with the windrow turner versus a front end loader or an excavator is also a much better turn for composting because it aerates the windrow much better than a front end loader, which means the composting process from our end is also much better and it’s a big saving for us.”

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WHEN waste management contractor Iolar picked up a new local government contract, they needed a reliable, adaptable wheel loader, so they turned to the new JCB 426 HT. Patrick Navin, Iolar’s managing director, says the JCB 426 HT was his first choice when the business was awarded a contract to provide operational services at the Redcliffe Waste Transfer Station in Queensland.

“When we were awarded the contract to operate the Redcliffe Waste Transfer Station we wanted to add a wheel loader to our fleet that was going to meet the needs of this job,” Navin said.

“We needed a machine that was going to be both durable and flexible because it was going to be used in various waste management tasks, such as working in

The Backhus A50 in action.

the push pit, stockpiling and loading materials.”

Navin said what impressed him the most about the JCB wheel loader was its tool carrier configuration that offers excellent visibility from the cab to the bucket, which is extremely important when loading trucks through a hole in the floor.

“Redcliffe Waste Transfer Station deals with a variety of materials, from general waste, green waste, through to household paints and chemicals, and asbestos.

It’s really important that our operator has maximum visibility when working around the general public and contractors alike. With the JCB 426 HT, operators can easily see down the front of the machine to the bucket with ease.”

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BASED at their manufacturing site in Northern Ireland since 1996, CK International is now one of the most recognised brands of vertical and horizontal balers, producing and exporting an extensive range of quality, reliable semi-auto and full auto machines throughout the UK, Ireland, Europe and the rest of the world.

Brentwood Recycling Systems are the exclusive distributor for CK International Horizontal Balers in Australia.

Servicing the recycling, logistics, warehousing, manufacturing and retail industries, CK International’s 20 years’ experience and knowledge of the waste industry ensures they can provide you with the correct advice and customised solution to your waste management requirements.

CK International Full Auto Horizontal Balers are ideal for businesses needing to produce very high density bales, thus maximising container loading weights from RDF, SRF, MSW, cardboard, plastic, paper, hard plastic, plastic film, PET,

HDPE, aluminium cans, steel cans and other recovered materials. Production rates up to 13.5t/h for cardboard and 30t/h for RDF are achievable for bale sizes up to 1.15m H x 1.15m W x 1.5m L (1300kg with RDF) with compaction forces up to 120t.

Within the Full Auto Horizontal Baler range, there is the CKTR82 Small Bale section 0.78m x 1.1m, and the CKTR121XL Large Bale section 1.1m x 1.1m machines.

These heavy duty machines feature fully automatic PLC controls with a HMI touchscreen, replaceable wear resistant liners, laser positioning on the hydraulic rams, bale separation door, left or right hand ejection models, and programmable bale tying. There are three tying options - a wire tying system, plastic strapping system and dual tying system incorporating both plastic and wire tying to facilitate the baling of various waste materials. Additional options include bale wrapping systems.

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From the CEO’s desk

WMAA remains very active throughout Australia at a state and national level, representing our sector at high-level meetings with governments; preparing policy responses; participating in and facilitating at conferences and seminars; and delivering WMAA events. We are acutely aware that we must continue doing this often, and well, to lead the success of the waste and resource recovery sector. We are determined to do this.

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• ensuring the reinvestment of funds raised from levies in the sector.

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In all that WMAA does, we are guided by a set of principles that include: •

adjustments and promoting the adoption of sustainable procurement principles and practices to all governments.

Waste and resource recovery is an essential service, and its infrastructure should be strategically planned and protected.

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Improving coordination between State Government portfolios both within and across state borders, with responsibility for the sector.

resources are supported and promoted.

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The environment and community is protected through the safe and responsible management of wastes.

Supporting extended producer responsibility and the role of the waste and resource recovery sector within it.

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Facilitating investment in resource recovery and the establishment of secondary and end markets for waste derived materials.

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Improving national waste and resource recovery data to enable the

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Reforms to the state regulatory frameworks to provide long term certainty for investment in the sector, including streamlining and improving consistency in state regulatory frameworks.

With our guiding principles in mind, representatives from each state, as well as the WMAA Board, came together recently to determine the advocacy priority areas for 2017-18. As the peak national body, we recognise that whilst the complex issues faced by the sector are often the same across Australia – and require a common approach – the solutions are nearly always at state level with state regulations. What may be an issue in one state (like CDS in NSW), may not be an issue that impacts other states at the same time. So, statebased responses are important. Our state branches are currently reviewing our advocacy priority areas and developing their business plans and priorities for action. Nationally, we will continue to work towards a common approach to the challenges that state-based regulation brings to the sector.

WMAA’s focus this year includes:

of waste.

Essentially, WMAA will support all actions aimed at fair competition and the principles aimed at improving the success of the whole sector. So now, when people ask “what does WMAA do?”, you can tell them! Get involved and contribute to the success of the waste and resource recovery sector.

Gayle Sloan Waste management Association of Australia

Product Stewardship – forging ahead Product stewardship is an important approach to managing the adverse impacts that different products and materials have on the environment. This includes the stewardship of products at the end of their life to ensure that they A number of product stewardship schemes exist across Australia. Presently, the vast majority are industry-led voluntary schemes that deal with the adverse producers who take ownership of where their products go at the end of their product’s life.

These schemes are raising the awareness of the need to make informed decisions on design and production, so that there are less adverse impacts on the environment and the community, particularly at end of life. Too often, the minimisation and management of these impacts from discarded products has been left to the waste management and resource recovery sector.

The Australian Product Stewardship Act 2011 does allow for industries and products to be regulated in three ways to manage their adverse impacts: •

Voluntary accreditation of schemes that give the community some certainty of a scheme’s claims, such as accreditation of MobileMuster for mobile phones

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Industry delivered co-regulatory schemes, such as the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme (NTCRS)

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Mandatory schemes that require certain action, such as labelling or recycling arrangements for end of life

Every year, the Australian Government lists products for consideration of possible product stewardship approaches under the Act. Plastic microbeads and products containing them, batteries, photovoltaic systems, electrical and electronic products and plastic oil containers are included in the list for 2016-17.

input to ensure that the Act delivers the best outcomes for the sector and the environment. This will also serve as a good opportunity to update and improve the NTCRS since its 2014-15 review.

The industry has been at the forefront in developing voluntary schemes such as PaintBack for waste paint; FluroCycle for mercury containing lamps; drumMuster and ChemClear for empty agricultural and veterinary containers and unwanted chemicals; and schemes for domestic tyres, PVC or vinyl and cartridge recycling. Some of these schemes, however, took more than 10 years to develop.

With about 23 product stewardship organisations across Australia, mostly

Even with little national direction, product stewardship schemes have started to align across states and territories. By 1 December 2017, similar beverage container product stewardship schemes to SA and NT will be implemented in NSW and ACT, with QLD following on 1 July 2018 and WA following after that.

In NSW alone, the Container Deposit Scheme (CDS) Network Operators must establish approximately 450 collection points across the State. Coupled with NSW Government’s funding of Community Recycling Centres, this will create a substantial network of collection points across the state. As part of an increased and accepted approach to product stewardship for many more products, Obviously, there will need to be markets that support the reuse or recycling of these products. No sector, however, is better placed than ours to respond to this challenge, and we are keen to keep working with Government and Industry to identify how this can be achieved with maximum certainty for both.

Energy from waste //

EfW, a vital component of sustainable waste management

By Jacqueline Ong “JUDGE the project on its merits, rely on the science and not the politics.”

That is the message Dial A Dump Industries (DADI) CEO Ian Malouf is seeking to drive home about the company’s proposed $700 million energy from waste facility in Eastern Creek, 35km west of Sydney.

DADI specialises in collections, recycling and landfilling of commercial, construction and demolition waste.

In 2012, it opened the Genesis Recycling Facility in Sydney’s western suburbs, which is achieving a mixed waste recycling ratio of more than 80%. The remaining 20% is currently being landfilled.

Now, DADI wants to build The Next Generation (TNG), which promises to divert a million tonnes of residual non-putrescible solid waste per annum from landfill, eliminating three million tonnes of greenhouse gas a year.

Questions, doubts, and concerns have been raised by local government, industry, and the community about the facility, ranging from why the plant is so large, to potential health impacts. And unsurprisingly, there is a strong sense of NIMBY-ness among the residents.

Addressing concerns Potential air pollution is an area of concern in the community and the primary emissions from an EfW facility, as determined by the EU Industrial Emissions Directive, are anticipated to be particulate matter (PM), assumed to be emitted as PM10 and PM2.5.

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attending public meetings, all in a bid to allay community concerns.

He pointed out that more than 2000 EfW facilities are operating in more than 35 countries safely and efficiently, adding that: “NSW Health wrote the following about the TNG proposal - the conclusion from this review is that the proposal would have limited impact on Western Sydney Local Health District facilities and had the potential to make a positive contribution to a number of priorities and actions outlined in the Greater Sydney Commission draft West Central District Plan” According to DADI, the outputs will be well below the limits set out by the NSW EPA and strict European directives and in many cases, these outputs will not be detectable as TNG’s design includes “sophisticated technology that captures any particulate matter and adsorbs heavy metals and dioxins, while cleaning any gases before they reach the atmosphere.”

Moreover, DADI will employ a Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS), giving the regulator the ability to monitor the plant’s pollution controls 24/7, with real-time feedback to process controls.

The company has submitted for public exhibition, more than 4000 pages of information about its proposed plant and amongst the extensive research, DADI has noted that its proposed technology is based on existing facilities in the UK and Europe, and will incorporate best available technologies for flue gas treatment.

In its proposal, the company said the flue gas treatment is designed to meet the in-stack concentrations limits for waste incineration set by the EU IED, as well as those prescribed within the POEO (Clean Air) Regulations.

The flue gas treatment system includes: • Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction

(SNCR) for reducing emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx).

• Dry lime scrubbing for reducing emissions of acid gases, including hydrogen chloride (HCl) and sulfur dioxide (SO2).

• Activated carbon injection for reducing emissions of dioxins (including PCDD) and mercury (Hg).

• Fabric filters for reducing emissions of particle matter (PM) and metals.

• Following flue gas treatment, emissions will be dispersed via a 100m stack.

The typical waste composition will result in 26.5% wet bottom ash and 4% flue gas treatment residues. Minus the metals that are recovered from the bottom ash, the remainder will be sent to landfill. TNG will strive to

recycled, and will not compromise recycling. It is only the residual waste already destined for landfill that will be processed.

“The people who say energy from waste detracts from recycling don’t care that one million tonnes of waste every year is being trucked to Queensland and landfilled,” Malouf said.

“These trucks on the road are costing $135 million in lost revenue. And these trucks are the equivalent to 35,000 B-doubles going up to Queensland every year, ripping up the roads, costing the government and therefore the NSW taxpayers tens of millions of dollars on top of the lost revenue. It’s also destroyed employment opportunities and the chances of a meaningful recycling industry in Queensland.”

The silly part is all the arguments the knockers are producing are the same arguments that they hurled at us when we were seeking approval for the landfill. Now it appears they are supportive of creating more landfills around Sydney. It’s hard to compete with the bias, inaccuracies and contradictions. recycle this bottom ash to aggregate for recycling as is done overseas.

Malouf noted that today, there is no regulatory framework in NSW facilitating the recycling of residues from EfW. Therefore, it will have to be established once real material is available for testing and until that time, the bottom ash will go to landfill.

“The flue gas treatment residues are classified as restricted solid waste due to the heavy metals. Recycling of such material is more difficult compared with bottom ash and only done in a few countries overseas,” Malouf added.

Not a compromise Malouf also reiterated that TNG will only process what cannot be sold and

Why so big?

But does NSW really need such a massive EfW facility?

“The project is staged and this is clearly stated in our submission that we will only build half the plant in stage one. Therefore 550,000 tonnes per annum,” Malouf said.

“TNG is a privately constructed project and we’re not putting our hand out to the government for funding. What we’re doing is correctly calculating the future needs of Sydney. We’re not building an M4 or M5 [motorway] that needs to be upgraded as soon as it’s built. We are building a four-line plant, which consists of two plants side-by-side and we’re building them in two stages so we’re first constructing half the plant as stage one.

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// Energy from waste Today, Genesis is achieving a mixed waste recycling ratio of more than 80%. The remaining 20% is currently being landfilled.

In 2006, DADI acquired a former hard rock quarry at Eastern Creek and developed the Genesis facility, a C&D and C&I recycling and recovery centre and landfill.

A message to local government Malouf will be in London at the end of May for the World Waste to

Energy and Resources Summit, where he’ll be speaking and holding a roundtable discussion.

He said the UK and Europe, where big EfW facilities are commonplace, are pushing for higher recycling rates and when TNG comes online, Sydney would become a world leader in resource recovery.

“NSW has nailed recycling. We are probably the world leaders when it comes to recycling percentages and the levy is a huge driver of that, and now we’ve got an EfW policy. We’re doing great recycling but we don’t have an EfW plant so it’s time we caught up and when we catch up, we will lead the world with the integrated combination of our recycling credentials and the added innovation with this plant, in concert with the rest of the Genesis facility… We’ll be the best in the world.”

And he is urging local government not to let an opportunity pass them by.

Instead, councils should get involved and be a part of DADI’s plans, allowing the greater community to possibly have some kind of shareholder ownership of the EfW facility.

“Overseas, some of these plants are owned by their local communities, and they are proud of it. Instead of spruiking against this great technology, councils should be working out how they can help with the waste problem, bring the waste to us and become a part of this facility in some type of fashion of ownership. And maybe, for the first time ever, the community could own a part of the facility and return an annuity of income directly to the benefit of the people,” Malouf said.

“It’s a completely different concept for NSW but it’s an opportunity that’s walking straight past councils. Instead of pretending this is the worst thing in the world, they should be proud of it. This is a commercially viable and responsible

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solution to waste. The alternative is to remain reliant on landfill. The silly part is all the arguments the knockers are producing are the same arguments that they hurled at us when we were seeking approval for the landfill. Now it appears they are supportive of creating more landfills around Sydney. It’s hard to compete with the bias, inaccuracies and contradictions.

“While we consume we will produce waste. There is no single magic solution for waste disposal and many technologies need to play a role, and landfill does have its place. But within a decade, landfilling of combustible material should no longer be an option. Energy from waste is a vital component of the solution for sustainable waste management in iw Australia going forward.”

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“To think that this plant is too big for the future needs of Sydney is ridiculous. As population grows, so does waste. Regardless of our recycling efforts, waste is still increasing to landfill year-on-year and this is just one part of a better solution. We’re not looking to thermally treat everything that comes along, there are very strict guidelines on what we can thermally treat and there’s a commercial driver behind it as well.

“There are 140 million reasons why we won’t put the wrong things in this plant because we won’t get the levy off if we do. If we don’t respect the 75% recycling ratio for C&D and the 50% recycling ratio for C&I, which is part of policy, we won’t get the levy back.” $700 million is not a small investment and one has to wonder how TNG will compete on price, particularly with the interstate waste transport situation.

However, Malouf is confident that “common sense will prevail” in Queensland before the plant is constructed and commissioned.

“It’s a three-year build program and [interstate transport of waste to Queensland] has been going on for four years now and that’s enough. It’s escalated to a million tonnes a year and rising, and it’s $134.7 million out of pocket for government this year alone so common sense will prevail, it’s just a matter of time. Otherwise, it’s just another business to compete with and we’ll do that,” he said.

“Energy from waste will assist with cost control on escalating disposal fees with an output of a much needed renewable energy compared to nothing from old fashioned landfilling.”

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Advanced technologies // The Woodlawn site, 250km south of Sydney.

Killing numerous birds with one stone

NSW resource recovery general manager Mark Taylor

By Jan Arreza AN unused copper, lead, and zinc open-cut mine in Woodlawn, on the outskirts of Lismore, south of Sydney, now houses a $60 million mechanical biological treatment (MBT) facility Veolia’s first in the country - designed to do a number of things, from separating organics from mixed household waste to create a compost suitable for the mine’s rehabilitation, to reducing the amount of waste going to landfill.

The facility, which services the Southern Sydney Region of Councils (SSROC), will further enhance the resource recovery capabilities of the Woodlawn site, said to be one of the largest and deepest purpose-built bioreactor landfill projects in the world, and will assist the state’s municipal, industrial and commercial sectors meet their resource recovery targets set by the NSW government.

Veolia NSW resource recovery general manager Mark Taylor told Inside Waste the design of the facility that is currently being commissioned was based on the company’s collective experience in running these types of facilities globally.

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this type of solution on mixed waste for 30 years,” Taylor said.

“We’ve basically taken the best of our experience in terms of our design, as well as the suppliers of the different elements of the technologies we’ve used, and implemented them all together in this facility, so we’re very confident of the ability for this plant to achieve its objectives.

The MBT facility was granted approval to receive thousands of tonnes of waste every year from the Sydney Metropolitan Area (SMA) by the Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) in November 2007 under a development consent. In 2014, Veolia commenced construction of the MBT facility.

“It was a long process. We started getting approvals and we had the development consent to build the facility around 10 years ago, and it is built off the back of a longterm contract with SSROC, which we tendered for only recently in 2012,” Taylor said.

“We’re currently going through a process of validating the construction and the operation of the facility, making sure it’s doing everything it’s supposed to as we start to ramp up towards full capacity.

“The facility is designed to process a little over 140,000 tonnes of household waste a year and we began taking waste into the facility in March, so certainly within the next few weeks we

would expect to be up to full capacity.”

The waste collected from the SMA will be containerised at two transfer stations - Banksmeadow and Clyde Transfer Terminals - owned and operated by Veolia and loaded onto rail wagons for transportation from Sydney to the MBT facility.

“It was a conditional contract in which we had a requirement to deliver a facility in Sydney to transfer waste out to the facility in Woodlawn, so we developed the Banksmeadow Transfer Station in Sydney,” Taylor explained.

But the MBT facility was not only developed to process SSROC’s waste.

Veolia also has a long-term obligation for mine site rehabilitation down at Woodlawn and the compost produced at the facility will be used for that purpose.

“We’ve got a secure market for the compost that we are producing from the process as we rehabilitate the mine site over a 10-year period, and that’s one of the major risks in projects like these - being able to market the product successfully,” Taylor added.

The process recovers or diverts about 60% from landfill, but the remaining 40% that is inorganic could potentially be turned into a high calorific fuel source.

Thus, one of the future options Veolia is investigating is to take the residue waste from the MBT facility and converting it to a waste-derived fuel, which will add an energy from waste

component to the facility.

“In terms of the future of waste more generally, the industry is talking a lot about the energy from waste opportunities. There’s a lot of vested interest driving a lot of chatter in this space,” Taylor said.

“I think it is certainly the future of waste, particularly in NSW due to the state’s high landfill levy and landfill costs, but I believe we will move more towards the energy from waste space slowly - over the course of the next five to 10 years, but I think that is where we will see the major change in the way wastes are being managed.”

The main legislative instruments governing the activities undertaken and the environmental performance of the MBT facility are the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, regulated by the DPE, and the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997, regulated by the EPA. In addition, the NSW EPA under the POEO Act has issued an Environment Protection Licence (EPL) 20476 in order to regulate the construction activities and monitoring undertaken at the site.

Conditions of the development consent and EPL stipulate the requirements that need to be addressed by Veolia for the MBT facility to maintain compliance.

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“The most difficulties we’ve had with the development of the waste facility is in the approval process, and Banksmeadow was a long process - we had to go through a planning approval process, an environmental impact statement, as well as community consultation, amongst other things,” Taylor said.

“It took us three years just to go through that process, then another year to build the facility, but I think that three-year period would’ve been much longer without the support of the local councils and communities involved.

“With the Woodlawn MBT, we just had to go through a detailed design process, to construction, and then to commissioning, which we are currently in now. Coordinating the various parties involved in that process took about a year before we had a contract in place to build the facility.”

Currently the MBT facility sources it power in a normal fashion being connected to the grid, but Taylor revealed that Veolia is in the very early stages of developing a solar farm down at Woodlawn to provide the bulk of energy for the MBT. “That obviously has to go through its own development approval processes

The Woodlawn site is said to be one of the largest and deepest purpose-built bioreactor landfill projects in the world.

and we hope to get through that quite quickly, and certainly by the end of this year, we hope to have the construction phase off the ground,” Taylor said.

“This was something that wasn’t

considered in the early stages of the project, but given the increases in the costs of energy recently, it has become more of a focus of ours.

“From a low cost perspective, solar

power and other renewable energy sources are now starting to stack up in terms of commercial opportunities, so we’re keen to see that initiative iw go through.”

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Collection //

A solution beneath our feet

General amenity issues that come with bins lining the streets would be solved once and for all with a vacuum waste system.

(Credit: Vincentq, Flickr CC)

By Jacqueline Ong PENRITH, just like a number of other satellite cities around Australia, continues to deal with a rapidly growing population. The growth of these cities are a property developer’s dream and new developments, particularly multiunit dwellings (MUDs), have landed or are set to land in the Western Sydney suburb. This presents an opportunity for council to change the way waste is collected and managed, turning to new systems and technologies and learning from mistakes made in the past.

At Waste 2017 in Coffs Harbour in May, Penrith City Council’s innovation officer, Joshua Romeo, told delegates that the council, in a bid to address waste infrastructure issues, had amended its Waste Development Control Plan in 2016. Council has also created guideline documents specific operational and infrastructure documents - to provide developers with information on sub-divisions, MUDs, residential flat buildings, and automated waste collection systems. Included are operational clearances and specifications for innovative waste collection technologies, model configurations for on-site waste infrastructure, and waste truck specifications.

Despite the extensive information and controls, some planners have argued that their sites have already incorporated sufficient waste planning measures.

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and providing an integrated waste collection solution for developments,” Romeo said.

Issues that are not uncommon when it comes to managing waste in MUDs include truck loading bays impeding basement traffic, the lack of temporary turning facilities, ridiculous internal heights of loading areas, steep ramp gradients, compactors that are too large to be removed during collection, chutes that restrict the size of bins… the list goes on.

Thus, in addition to creating guideline documents and improving its DCP, council engaged AECOM to determine the viability of completely shaking up how waste is collected. The solution it was interested in? Vacuum waste systems.

“Penrith City Council commissioned AECOM to undertake a three-stage review of vacuum systems within residential flat buildings and also conduct a feasibility study using a current development proposed within Penrith,” Romeo said.

“An overview of that development - it is 78,500 square metres and it consists of 2087 units spread over 21 towers. The development comprises cafés, restaurants and a childcare centre and it’s a five-stage development that will be constructed over an eight-year cycle.

“The reason we chose this development is that it’s over the 1000-unit threshold that was identified in the three-stage review, making it viable for vacuum systems.”

How a vacuum system works In essence, waste is placed in a number of different inlets, depending on the waste stream, and sucked underground at speeds of 90km/h to a central waste collection building, much like a small transfer station.

The size of this central collection building depends on the number of compactor units housed within it, the size of the vacuum pumps required to power the system, which again, sit in the building, as well as the frequency of collection at the site.

Globally, there are more than 1000 installations that are either under operation or under construction, making it a proven system. And back home, Maroochydore, in the heart of the Sunshine Coast, is going ahead with the system and has appointed Envac as its preferred contractor.

Is the solution under our doorstep?

AECOM associate director - waste management, Chani Lokuge, told delegates as part of the study, the firm compared the vacuum system with a business as usual scenario, taking into consideration the technical, social, environmental, and financial costs and benefits.

“We spoke to the property developer and they said that under the usual truck collection method, you need a number of different infrastructures, ranging from waste chute inlets, carousels, bin lifters, skip bin collections and you also need a bulky waste collection area.

You’ll also need a caretaker, which they

estimated to be around three to four days a week, managing waste under the development,” Lokuge said.

“Under the vacuum system, you’ll have your waste chutes and inlets, the underground pipe collection system, and the waste collection building.

But you’ll also need a bulky waste collection because it can’t accept large bulky waste streams. And similar to the business as usual scenario, you’ll need a caretaker although this is reduced to about one day per fortnight.”

A strong council commitment is needed to proceed with this type of innovative technology - Chani Lokuge.

He noted that there were a few technical issues to consider if councils were to go down the vacuum system path. For one, there are limitations to what materials can be accepted by the system and because the technology is not as mature and as well understood as traditional collection methods, education must be provided to end users.

“For example, there’s a limit on how much glass can be placed in these vacuum systems without corroding the pipes. With the introduction of the CDS, hopefully that will pull out some of that glass and make these systems more effective. The pipeline itself consists of 500mm diameter steel pipes

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though one supplier offers plastic pipes of 200mm diameter,” Lokuge said.

“You also need to look at where you’re going to locate the collection building and the size of that building as well as the potential issues associated with the noise with the trucks collecting waste. Although, this is similar to any type of small transfer station.”

That said, in the business as usual scenario, there are a number of issues that continue to plague local government, from general amenity of waste bins lining the streets, to noise issues associated with truck movements, vermin and air quality issues, as well as relatively low diversion rates from MUDs. “Under the vacuum waste collection system, a lot of these issues can be addressed and minimised. For example, by reducing the number of truck movements significantly by having the central collection point and collection maybe once per fortnight, you’re taking the number of truck movements off the street, thereby reducing the early morning truck noise, the potential issues with bins being placed on the street, and you reduce greenhouse gas emissions by taking the trucks off the

street as well,” Lokuge said.

Turning to the financial costs and benefits, AECOM, undertook an independent analysis, comparing the business as usual scenario with three vacuum system options from Envac, Avac, and Stream - the key suppliers of this technology.

Alternative scenarios were looked at under both the vacuum system and business as usual cases. For instance, if a basement that requires truck access needs to be constructed under the MUD, as per a number of councils’ requirements, this would need to be around 4.5 metres - much higher than a regular 2.5m tall basement - meaning more floor space is required. It was found that a vacuum system would offer significant floor space savings.

“You wouldn’t need a huge area to store a large number of kerbside bins for one. So we spoke to a property developer to ask what floor space savings you might achieve and found that if the additional basement height [to 4.5 metres] is required, you would have a cost saving of up to $55 million for that 2000-unit project in Penrith,” Lokuge revealed.

“They would’ve saved $55 million

There is a key difference between providing waste infrastructure and providing an integrated waste collection solution for developments - Joshua Romeo by making a smaller basement, which clearly outweighs the cost of the system five-fold.

“But if basement access is not required, there is an upfront capital cost that’s required [for the vacuum system], which worked out to be around $2000 per unit. So over a 2000-unit development, that’s about $4 million in upfront capital cost.

“In terms of operation and maintenance cost, there was a relatively small increase in the strata fee, assuming that the ongoing maintenance of the system is passed on as a strata fee to unit holders. But as I mentioned before, there would be a reduction in the amount of caretaker time that’s required under the vacuum system scenario. Also, the council’s collection waste fee is reduced in terms of the number of council waste collection trucks that’s required - traffic movements are

significantly reduced, therefore that fee is reduced.“

Five key factors Ultimately, there are five key factors that would make a vacuum system viable, Lokuge said. The first being implementation in a greenfield site.

“Greenfield sites are strongly preferred but it can be done in brownfield sites as well and there are examples where it’s been done by retrofitting,” he said.

Secondly, the basement construction in a MUD makes a world of difference between the business as usual method and a vacuum system if extra height is needed.

High density developments would also make these systems viable, with 1000 units being the minimum.

“Finally, a strong council commitment is needed to proceed with this type of innovative technology,” Lokuge said. iw

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Q&A //

Celebrating a decade in Queensland

By Jacqueline Ong IN April 2007, the Bureau of Meteorology issued a tsunami warning for the east coast of Australia after detecting an earthquake in the South Pacific Ocean, rapper Snoop Dogg was banned from entering the country because he “did not meet the character requirements for a visa”, and SpiderMan 3 premiered in Tokyo (if you didn’t watch it, don’t).

And on April 26, 2007, seven companies along with waste veteran Rick Ralph, came together to set up the Waste Recycling Industry Association of Queensland (WRIQ).

10 years on and WRIQ has made great leaps and bounds in and for the sector.

Inside Waste sat down with WRIQ CEO Rick Ralph to reflect on the decade and celebrate the efforts of the association.

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IW: Thinking about the last 10 years, how much has WRIQ changed from when it was first formed?

Ralph: We formed because industry needed recognition. Industry needed a voice, we needed to champion the industry, and we needed to be at the negotiation table. WRIQ’s core being was brought about from regulation.

The industry was being unduly targeted by both the Environmental Regulator and by Brisbane City Council over inner city noise collection issues so we brought the industry together to address those issues. We achieved that and the principle reason for forming WCRAQ, which was to give industry recognition and the platform in which it could advocate its issues, was now proven.

Initially we formed as a group of contractors. We branded as the Waste

Contractors and Recyclers Association.

Five years into our journey, we recognised that something needed to change. We were being accommodated by stakeholders but we weren’t being truly recognised. We undertook an extensive 360-degree consultation process with all stakeholders, political, non-political, members and the like, about our branding and position. We wanted to be recognised as the waste and recycling industry. We didn’t want to be seen as a just a group of self-interested contractors, we wanted to be acknowledged as a professional industry body, a professional industry stakeholder in the community.

IW: And of course, WRIQ had to evolve as the sector evolved. How much has changed in Queensland since 2007?

Ralph: There are three significant changes WRIQ has been instrumental in achieving. Firstly, the industry is now recognised, both in a political and in a business sense. It is now acknowledged as a crucial stakeholder in regulation and policy conversations with government. The second is the reforms that we’re just about to see realised and that will really be the landscape change.

It’s taken us a lot longer than expected but when you have nine ministers and 10 director generals in charge of the central agency we have had to advocate with over 10 years, you’re never going to get there fast.

The new regulatory framework will be the pivotal change for the future and our industry members have been front and centre in re-shaping that agenda.

The proposed revisions to the regulatory ERA framework is going to be a game changer. Thirdly and arguably in my opinion, the most important success is about the thousands of Queenslanders our members employ, the people in the industry who are now recognised for what they are and for what they do.

The industry has a profile; the members have a profile with our stakeholders.

We don’t just get blindsided all the time with different agendas although that will always happen when you have so many political agendas flowing.

We now actually get meaningful engagement and I think that’s the best you could ever possibly hope for. There has been a fundamental step change and, 10 years on, the WRI branding and

governance model has a place in NT, in SA, and by the end of June, we will have WRI in WA established.

IW: What have been the key lessons that help drive WRIQ forward?

Ralph: We’re always learning. One lesson is you have to lead - you can’t be a follower in policy and you must adapt and listen to other views. Be respectful but importantly, you have to know when to step away from the table and if something’s not correct, you’ll just have to say no, you can’t accommodate that position. It’s about balance.

You need to understand the political cycle. Australia in 2017 in political terms in my opinion is in an abyss. We want good political leaders but regrettably, I think our political landscape at the moment is so mainstream and boring, and our political leaders are far too focused on the next election result that they’re genuinely not focused on the national drivers. As a result of that, our industry gets caught up in that policy vortex.

We’re barely living from cycle to cycle and from an industry body, for the next 10 years, we need to articulate a clear industry policy position, we need to educate stakeholders on that policy position, and we need to advocate and look beyond the simple four-year electoral cycle.

IW: What have you been most proud of when you think back on the last decade?

Ralph: The thing that gives me the greatest smile looking back on the 10 years is we now have professional industry bodies in which members and our people can network with purpose.

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WRIQ CEO Rick Ralph.

We’ve got the WRIQ professional women’s networking group and we’ve got a future industry leaders program where we’re trying to identify networking opportunities to get outside, to get industry employees talking. Those are big milestones because now, the people who make up this industry, the real achievers behind the scenes have a proper and effective vehicle in which to drive the industry.

And of course, the recent creation of a single WRI model in Queensland has culminated recently in a National Council being formed. That in my mind is testament of the credibility and the professionalism of what the WRI brand has become and it is personally one of my greatest career highlights and achievements following more than 36 years working in the sector IW: What’s the next 10 years going to look like?

Ralph: Profound change. We have to be cognizant to the fact that

Queensland will, at some point after the next election, be facing some sort of economic instrument. Call it a levy, call it a tax, call it what you will but we will have some mechanism. The critical thing is not to let political interference and other interests that are non-waste or recycling-related interfere or distract from the discussion. What government did to us and many of our members last time when they had a go was scandalous and they arguably left a number of my members financially worse off, but handed millions to local government without any thought. We were left with idle assets and investment.

We’ve invested heavily in getting the baseline right in terms of regulation for all and we can’t afford to have that happen again.

However, the single greatest threat as an industry we are now facing is the mischief that our local government representatives seem to be playing and using waste as a puppet to manipulate

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new ways of generating revenues in a non-transparent manner. The development of these issues where we’re seeing councils developing their own new local laws, and as result, the potential to create absolutely perverse operating environments prohibiting their commercial ratepayers and businesses from having choice of service provider is a huge threat and unresolved, creates great uncertainty over whether you would want to invest in Queensland. I’m gravely concerned at the lack of understanding of many of our elected representatives to truly appreciate what the private sector does, how we do it, and the importance that innovation, investment and consumer confidence come from having a competitive operating environment and not as we now have in two possibly three local government jurisdictions that in 2017, prohibit customer choice and open competition. This is a really slippery slope and one we must now eliminate.

IW: What do you want to achieve in 10 years?

Ralph: Two things, I want policy for the industry removed from our regulator’s control into a Science, Innovation and Business portfolio of government. The current model where a sector’s regulator sets policy for that industry is broken, it’s finished, and it’s disruptive to business confidence.

Importantly, I want to see greater and formal recognition of the people who work within this industry by all our stakeholders, including our political representatives. If these community representatives clearly understand their decisions are impacting our

people’s lives and members’ businesses and investment, and there is a human component both in terms of cost and opportunity, then perhaps they may have second thoughts about some of the political self-driven agendas we are so often now faced with. That’s a great challenge - to educate our stakeholders on the importance and the value of our people and in turn, that of our industry.

IW: Finally, how is WRIQ celebrating its 10th anniversary?

Ralph: Leading up to the last week of July, we’re going to have an industry equipment demonstration day to showcase some of the clever stuff that we do in equipment for our suppliers. We’re also going to hold an industry forum looking at innovation and non-regulatory issues on July 28.

It will culminate in the annual dinner on Saturday, July 29.

This year, we’ll be introducing new recognition for employees of the industry, whether they’ve been with one company or 10 companies, it doesn’t matter, but anyone who’s been in the industry for 25 years or more, we are introducing new recognition for their services to the industry because we’re only as good as the people who work within our industry and that’s what the WRI model has become.

We must recognise daily the importance of our people, of maintaining safe workplaces and ensuring everyone goes home to their families every day, and that is the purpose of the dinner and the awards.

We’re professional industry people with wonderful attributes and really strong skills and full of great characters and iw great mentors.

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Advanced technologies //

Investing in sustainable energy - the case for power to gas

By Jacqueline Ong ENERGY from waste has been in the spotlight for a good number of years now but in the last 12 months or so, it is the eastern seaboard that seems to have ramped up these discussions.

Just cast your eye to Victoria where not only has the state government launched a $2 million program to support the development of EfW technologies, some regional councils are investigating the viability of EfW including the City of Bendigo, while the Central Victorian Greenhouse Alliance and Hepburn Shire Council are in the midst of an EfW trial, and a business plan has been developed to expand this trial to 70 EfW, micropower stations across six regional shires. Then there’s Dial A Dump Industries’ proposal to build the $700 million The Next Generation facility in Eastern Creek, 35km west of Sydney (more on page 16).

Hitachi Zozen Inova (HZI) has been in this space for a long time and has proprietary EfW technology and complete turnkey plant and system solutions. It also has more than 500 thermal and 150 anaerobic digestion reference projects around the world.

The company is all about sustainable resource and energy recovery and utilisation, and late last year, it acquired Stuttgart-based, power to energy firm Etogas (“electricity to gas”), which could very well open up new opportunities in the EfW space, particularly in the use of by-products of the EfW process.

The energy scene Over the past seven years, particularly on the east coast, energy prices have doubled and little relief is in sight. The issue of grid stability has also been much discussed in recent months (remember the SAwide blackout in 2016?) and many are looking at alternative options to generate electricity on-site as well as storage solutions.

Earlier this year, Energetics released a report highlighting that the case for EfW “looks better” given these issues and challenges in the grid. And Etogas’ power to gas solution could kill two birds with one stone - utilise the CO2 that comes out of the EfW process to produce synthetic natural gas that can 24

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be fed back into the grid, and offer grid stabilisation.

Essentially, power to gas converts volatile electricity into renewable, synthetic gases with a low carbon footprint, which can then be stored, transported and commercialised.

“We use electricity to electrolyse water to hydrogen and oxygen, and the hydrogen is converted together with CO2 to methane. This process obviously uses electricity and it’s a fairly intensive consumption, which motivates us to align our production with minute-by-minute market pricing.

At low pricing, we generate gas at full capacity. If there is suddenly a price increase for electricity, we can just slow down or shut down our electrolysis plant and we could even transform some of the methane we have and produce electricity to put into the grid,” HZI managing director Dr Marc Stammbach explained.

And if there is a surplus of electricity, prices could be driven down to negative values, which has happened in Europe, making it a compelling reason for plant operators to make as much methane as they can.

“The idea is to produce a surplus of methane from our intermittent solar and wind farms that will then be renewable and you can either put it back into the national gas grid or compress it into compressed natural gas which is a diesel replacement already in use today in diesel motors,” Dr Stammbach said.

“So it’s not only about the electricity grid, it’s actually one of the few technologies where we can get a renewable transport fuel.”

The opportunities At the moment, HZI is seeking its first EfW project in Australia, which makes the Etogas acquisition quite timely because when these projects come to fruition, there is an opportunity to co-locate the EfW facility and Etogas power to gas plant. After all, they would need to be in close proximity because trucking the CO2 long distances would make the entire proposal cost prohibitive.

Dr Stammbach believes HZI will soon secure its first local EfW project, which will take two to four years to implement, but he is urging the sector to consider the opportunities of power to gas.

Delivered in 2013, Audi’s 6MW Etogas e-gas plant in Werlte, Germany is the largest power to gas plant in the country. (Source: HZI)

“The question is, what is the value of grid stability and can that be translated into a business case? Ultimately, it comes down to the opportunity cost for each business. Grid stability is obviously a great thing to have but also, if there is a significant difference between the times when energy is cheap or when you get paid to take it and the times when energy is very valuable, you can get the business case to stack up. Additionally, if you get some payment for grid stability, that’s even better, then it really stacks up.”

HZI is about to embark on a pre-feasibility study with an industrial client and part of that is to look at the historic differences in pricing and prices forecast for the future.

“This is also the model which is used for hydropower storage - in times of low electricity costs, you pump water up the hill, store it up on the mountain, and when the electricity price is high, that’s when you produce electricity. Instead of using water as a storage medium and the height of water storage, we use methane. So we use a chemical storage instead of a physical storage,” Dr Stammbach said.

The hurdles Compressed natural gas is already accepted in the market so the only

change here would be to use biogas from anaerobic digestion as opposed to natural gas. It is the injection of methane into the grid which would be an Australian-first.

“This will lead to some discussion on how it can be done. The questions that will likely come up will be around purity, the interface, how to measure flow, and how to assure quality and safety,” Dr Stammbach noted.

“On the other hand, it’s already implemented in hundreds of installations in Europe as well as in North America. It’s done every day in many units. so there will be no issues but it’s because you’re bringing a totally new product into the market, you have to sell it to the off-taker and that’s a marketing exercise. There will also be work, health and safety as well as regulatory issues to manage.

“It will be an interplay between the electricity trading companies to recognise the value of such a system and to find together a business case solution which makes it happen. It will also probably need transformation of the National Electricity Market but people have already recognised that maybe, some of the rules are not market-driven.”

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NSW councils collectively manage about 3.5 million tonnes of waste generated by their residents every single year, making waste management and planning a crucial task.

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Uncovering the issues waste managers face

By Jan Arreza IN NSW, local governments collectively manage some 3.5 million tonnes of waste generated by their residents every single year, making planning an important task though it is one that is fraught with challenges.

Speaking at Waste 2017 in Coffs Harbour in April, former Local Government NSW (LGNSW) senior policy officer, Mark McKenzie - he left LGNSW shortly after the conference and is now a City of Canterbury Bankstown councillor - offered insights into waste management and planning, and discussed the issues faced by councils in NSW. McKenzie noted that one of the biggest issues that councils face during the planning process is being caught in the middle and having to deal with competing stakeholders.

“Council might have a wonderful strategy mapped out to the nth degree - its future growth, the types of businesses involved, how many residences, all of those sorts of things but you still have all of the impositions put on you on all of the aspects of the waste management and planning,” McKenzie said.

“You’re going to have your ratepayers demanding one type of system and they don’t want it to change too much, developers are always there wanting to have a waste room that is the size of a broom closet in order to cope with the 500 units that they’ve got, and your urban designers don’t even 26

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understand there is such a thing as waste management within a building.

“State governments have their own sets of agendas that they want you to meet, waste contractors have a totally different set of agendas, all of which involve the fact that they can’t possibly collect some of the things that you want to put on this ground, and waste equipment suppliers can never seem to be able to catch up with where everyone’s heads are at in terms of processing waste onsite and getting on with it,” he added.

“So you are in the middle of all these negotiations and there is a giant pile of things that you are going to have to now deal with, and I feel like we are getting to a situation where the very people who should be in charge, in this case the councils, are having more and more of their powers pulled away from them.”

And this is where LGNSW tries to help councils. The organisation advocates on behalf of councils on key waste and recycling issues, represents local government on a number of NSW and national waste and recycling policy committees and working groups, works with the EPA to achieve improved outcomes from the Waste Less Recycle More initiative, and promotes and celebrates local government waste and recycling achievements.

“We are really there to advocate on behalf of the member councils, providing our data and the research because those who are in control are often at different levels in terms of waste management experience,”

McKenzie said.

Despite LGNSW’s best efforts, there are areas that need to be improved on.

“We would prefer a collaborative approach where LGNSW can play an effective role for all of those other stakeholders and we recognise that there is a great need to get all of this on paper and get some controls built into the local government system because this is a generational problem,” McKenzie said.

to update its guidelines on how we work out our domestic waste charges because it is getting a bit old, and it was written for a vastly different set of circumstances.”

LGNSW has long advocated for the requirement for producers to take greater responsibility for their products, so that there will be less waste to deal with, and the environmental impacts of waste will be reduced.

As local government does not have the statutory power to require producers to take responsibility for their products, a major role of LGNSW is to advocate on behalf of councils for the following issues to be addressed: • responsible packaging design and EPR for packaging waste; • management of problem waste including but not limited to paints, batteries, chemicals, mattresses, electronic waste, and asbestos; and • reducing the impact of plastic shopping bags, microbeads and other pollutants.

“At the moment it’s being left to the individual councils to muddle through as best they can, and what we need is some leadership at a high level that comes from outside of the councils and applies across the whole sector,” McKenzie said.

“There are more rules and regulations about where you can and can’t site a waste management facility than there are about what kinds of waste management infrastructure should have been built - it seems lopsided because you can’t put these big buildings out there that can cope with the waste as there are a lot of regulations around that.

Waste management and services infrastructure needs to be built into the waste strategy if you’re going to deliver a successful resource recovery initiative, and we need to really have the brightest NSW government officers who know what they are doing in this space to be in positions where they are advising those involved.

“With the vast amount of multiunit dwellings in NSW that are being built with just barely adequate, if not substandard waste controls and waste management systems, it’s going to be a major problem that we’re going to be dealing with for quite some time.

“Waste management and services infrastructure needs to be built into the waste strategy if you’re going to deliver a successful resource recovery initiative, and we need to really have the brightest NSW government officers who know what they are doing in this space to be in positions where they are advising those involved. Also, the Office of Local Government needs

“But inside the building, well, that is really just up to the designers and council to work out, so we need to be able to effectively deliver that right at the beginning of the planning process.

“No one can operate their town or their building if they do not have a good waste management system in place, and it’s up to the skillset of councils to be able to deliver these multi-million-dollar waste facilities.

It’s time we really pushed hard as a local government sector to give ourselves a bit more control, and up the top, a lot more guidance and specificity about how waste management is to be iw planned for.

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// Landfill and transfer stations

Screw it, let’s do it

By Jacqueline Ong THAT’S one of Virgin America founder Richard Branson’s favourite sayings, which he even used as the title of a book he published in 2006. And it was with this mentality that Toowoomba Regional Council in Queensland embarked on the development of the Greater Toowoomba Waste Management Facility (GTWMF), Council’s “learning facility”.

Speaking to Inside Waste after winning the Waste Management Association of Australia Innovation Award for automation at the facility at the 2017 Australian Landfill and Transfer Stations conference in March, Council’s manager - waste services, Troy Uren, said the decision to build the facility wasn’t based on a desire to be innovative.

Instead, they were focused on their customers and how to better deliver services to the community as well as the operational aspects of running a facility.

Tapping into more than 20 years of waste management operations experience, including as a consultant who saw many mistakes made across the country, Uren decided that Council needed to bite the bullet and build a facility that avoided the mistakes made in the past. A key factor was to focus on the operational issues, rather than only focusing on engineering issues when designing a site, and construct a transfer station that could remain standing and efficient for decades to come.

GTWMF is part of an integrated network of 23 facilities. These plants are split into six tiers, with tier one, which GTWMF comes under, being the largest.

It was certainly a risk choosing the region’s largest facility as its learning site but Council was left with little

choice - the $1.6 billion Toowoomba Second Range Crossing would cut into the original plant and Council had to find another site to construct a new facility. And Council was given 10 months to get their affairs in order.

“I’ve got to give credit to the Council, the executive, and the community of Toowoomba. They let us get on with the job and you don’t often see that. Now, they get to look back and go, you’ve got it right. There was pressure on us to get it right because they’d given us that autonomy but we think we’ve come up with a pretty good solution,” Uren said.

“There are negatives of course with starting with the biggest one but there are also positives in that now we’ve got a blueprint and we know what we can do. The GTWMF has set the scene for how we roll the other facilities out.

They can’t be any more complex than the one we’ve already completed.”

The facility includes an operations centre with fibre optic connectivity to allow for the management of the network from one location. It also comprises digital CCTV, giving Council the opportunity to manage security and safety with motion sensors, infrared and image recording as well as track analytics, ANPR licence plate cameras that, amongst other things, can inform Council on where people go and how long they spend at each location, improved transaction software featuring touch screens, integration with the ANPR cameras, and greater speed and accuracy, as well as electronic front gates and wireless connectivity.

These improvements and new systems offer numerous benefits, from allowing staff to operate systems with a push of

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When Council decided to build the new facility, it focused on operational issues to construct a transfer station that could remain standing and efficient for decades to come.

Among the many improvements at GTWMF are digital CCTV, giving council the opportunity to manage security and safety with motion sensors, infrared and image recording as well as track analytics, and ANPR licence plate and thermal cameras.

a button, to better managing customer flow and analysing what is working and what’s not. In the future, these systems will also give customers the ability to manage their own account, with the potential to promote positive behaviour in the community by linking pricing to the area of the facility the customer has used.

“We’re right at the start of the benefits realisation but there have been a few immediate benefits. For one, the diversion that we’re getting from landfill at this site, in comparison to the previous site that this replaced, is almost three times the amount. We were getting about 30% and we’re now getting about 79%. This is with no new programs and no new staff. The number of loads to landfill has also reduced by 72% and we’ve got a target of 90%,” Uren said.

“Another benefit is with the fire systems and the thermal cameras.

They’re identifying hotspots and fires and we’re dealing with them immediately. We’ve had a major fire on-site and there’s been no loss of operational time.”

Additionally, the front electronic gates, which cost Council $48,000, have saved more than 1.25 hours a day, resulting in productivity gains of $29,000 a year.

The next part of this journey is the roll-out of digital signs. And of course, Council has every intention of implementing new systems based on learnings from GTWMF at its other 22 facilities over the next five to seven years. It is about to go to tender for three tier five facilities to be delivered as a package.

Commenting on lessons learnt to date, Uren said: “My key piece of advice would be, forget the capital cost and focus on the operational cost.

That’s what we’re here to deliver - we’re here to deliver a service and achieve an outcome. The capital is a means to an end and people are too focused on the capital that they forget the operations.

“A facility will take six months to build but you’re going to operate it for 30 to 50 years, meaning the operational costs will be significantly more than the capital cost. Yes, you need to consider the capital but if that’s your focus, you’ve got it wrong from day one as the OPEX will exceed 70% and perhaps be up to 90% of the total lifecycle costs of the system.

“We believe we will be able to reduce our operational costs on our next tier five facilities by up to 75% over the previous business as usual. That can add up to a very substantial saving to iw the community.”

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Closing the loop on Magnetic Island

By Jan Arreza THE $9 million Magnetic Island Transfer Station, 8km offshore from the city of Townsville in Queensland, was officially opened in October 2015. As it sits on a national park. Townsville City Council Waste Services had to ensure that not only were the island’s infrastructure needs met, its unique environment had to be protected as well.

Speaking to Inside Waste after winning the Waste Management Association of Australia (WMAA) Transfer Stations Excellence Awards at the 2017

Australian Landfill & Transfer Stations Innovation and Excellence Awards in March, Matt McCarthy, manager of Townsville City Council’s Waste Services, said the facility has been a long time coming and a lot of planning and work was done over 10 years.

“Ten years ago, we knew we were running out of landfill space and we needed to do something more, so a lot of community consultation was undertaken around the waste management strategy for Magnetic Island, and we surprisingly got a lot of support from the community – I

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The Magnetic Island Transfer Station sits on a national park.

10 years in the making, the $9 million Magnetic Island Transfer Station was officially opened in October 2015.

think it was 98% support for a transfer station,” McCarthy said.

Future expansion was on the minds of the team in the planning stages and the transfer station’s layout allows the site’s capacity to be duplicated, although McCarthy said at the moment, the site will not exceed demand. Additionally, its location meant transportation had to be carefully considered.

“It’s on a remote location on the island so if we lose maritime transport, if the barge goes down, or the tides are too high or too low, it can affect the transport. However, we can cope with volumes over a number of days if a natural disaster affects the barge operating times,” McCarthy said.

The transfer station, which includes a green waste collection area, push pit transfer station for collection and sorting, and a white goods, batteries, and oil recovery area, also allows for removal of waste to the mainland once the Picnic Bay landfill is full.

“Within the push pit itself, the machines that operate have a sacrificial rubber blade, so we are preserving the concrete floor within the transfer station,” McCarthy said.

“We also recognised there was a need for future water security and that was considered in the design. Recycled water is now irrigated across the site from the wastewater treatment plant next door - that’s an added benefit of an additional discharge point, which pulls about 23 mega litres of recycled water each year.

“There were also some biosolids from the wastewater treatment process that were going to landfill, but now that we’ve got the capabilities to transport waste from the island, we can recycle the biosolids on the mainland at two treatment plants there.

“We’re using solid filled tyres to reduce the wear and tear of the machinery and we’ve got some scales on the backhoe buckets, which cumulatively weigh the waste into each container, so we know how much weight is in each container to maximise the payload before we transfer the waste.”

The design and construction of the transfer station was delivered on time and under budget, and more than 90% of the work went to local companies.

“We limited the amount of cut and fill that we had to do within the transfer station itself, we used a push wall instead of excavating additional material, we had really good project management, and we had a good contractor that was well experienced,” McCarthy explained.

“By the time we added in all of the project management costs, and the money used to realign some water and sewerage infrastructure, and to re-do a nearby road, the project cost around $9 million.”

In terms of environmental protection, McCarthy said because they operate within the Great Barrier Reef Marine World Heritage area, they needed to undertake all of the necessary environmental protection and biodiversity conservation assessments.

“Half of the island are protected national parks so we were concerned about this and the threatened species around the area, so we undertook all the environmental protection and biodiversity conservation planning and assessments,” McCarthy said.

“We use energy efficient LED lighting, we have odour control systems in place throughout the roof of the transfer station, and we capture all of the stormwater on site. The stormwater is pre-filtered to knock out the sediments and any contaminants like soluble metals, phosphorous or nitrates prior to releasing to the environment, and we’ve got a monitoring program around that as well.

“We also made sure the transfer station has the ability to be locked down so that the waste is enclosed within fully sealed containers that are lidded, and that minimises odour and vermin issues.

“Whatever we can do to create that circular economy, or close the loop on Magnetic Island, we’ll be looking to iw do that.”

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Problem solving - it’s in Dulverton’s DNA

By Jacqueline Ong THE folks at Dulverton Waste Management have a lot to be proud of. Over the last 12 months, the Dulverton Waste Management Landfill near Latrobe in northern Tasmania has grown waste processing volumes by 9.24% to 75,0000 tonnes, thanks to operational improvements. It is also home to Tasmania’s largest composting facility, diverting more than 29% of waste into high quality compost.

And in March, its efforts were recognised at the Waste Management Association of Australia’s 2017 Australian Landfill and Transfer Stations conference, when it won the Landfill Excellence Award.

“It felt fantastic that it was little old Dulverton that knocked over the big players so we were excited,” Dulverton Waste Management CEO Mat Greskie said.

“I’m most proud of the staff and the contractors because that’s the reason why we got to this point. We’ve got a really great culture of being innovative, a great culture of challenging the status quo, and a culture of just being prepared to contest the status quo.”

The 35ha site boasts a number of firsts in the state, from being the first Tasmanian landfill to implement machine guidance for its landfill compactor, to being the first in the region to operate a landfill gas system to extract methane and assist in abating some 10,000 tonnes of CO2-e.

When the landfill was constructed in 1995, it was built to rigorous environmental standards and today, the landfill, which receives close to 70,000 tonnes of waste a year, has an independently certified and audited Environmental Management System (EMS) that is embedded in operations and used daily by staff. This is backed by comprehensive environmental policies and processes.

“It’s about constant improvement, about identifying problems and looking for the root cause and resolving those root causes - that’s a big part of what we do at Dulverton. I always say, we

don’t just drive around the pothole in the road, we find out why that pothole formed and what can we do to stop another pothole forming. It’s in our DNA at Dulverton - solving things once and for all so we never have to come back and deal with that problem again,” Greskie said.

When it comes to leachate management, Greskie said prior to him joining the organisation, the management made “a really good decision” to invest in a pump station and 7km leachate pipeline into the sewage system in the nearest town.

“These things have certainly helped but in a wet climate like Tasmania, with not very high evaporation, leachate’s always an issue so our unique capping process that we’ve put in in recent years has really helped with that,” Greskie said.

“Basically what we do is instead of completing a cell over four to five years and then coming in and capping, we cap progressively a few times a year and we’re bringing our capping up with the waste profile itself. Doing so really reduces leachate generation which has been an enormous benefit to our leachate challenges on-site.”

But it’s not just a landfill that Dulverton operates. Its compost facility processes 22,240 tonnes of waste into high quality compost every year, certified to the voluntary Australian Standard for Composts, Soil Conditioners and Mulches (AS 4454).

“We’ve turned the compost facility into probably one of the most scientifically operated open windrow composting sites in the country. And we’ve just done that by looking at every part of the process of composting with a really objective and scientific view,” Greskie said.

“Now, we don’t allow any ingredients to come to our site without them being tested in the laboratory. We do detailed temperature, moisture, and oxygen readings to ensure our product is composted in accordance to the Australian standard.”

Compost from Dulverton is sold across Tasmania to 12 nurseries, numerous vineyards, orchards, flower

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Dulverton believes in solving problems once and for all and the team has designed tipping plates that guide drivers to the correct tipping positions. (Credit: Dulverton Waste Management)

growers, dairy farms and other farms.

“What we’re really proud of is that we’re actually selling it to quite substantial farms such as dairy farms that are in excess of 1000ha of dairy cows and they’re making a business decision to use our compost. They’re not just doing this because it makes them feel good or because it’s good for the environment - it’s those things as well - but they’re doing it because it’s better for their business. They’ve been able to reduce their reliance on synthetic fertilisers and reduce their overall fertiliser cost,” Greskie said.

Four councils - Central Coast, Devonport City, Kentish, and Latrobe own Dulverton Waste Management and looking ahead, Dulverton has engaged all councils in the region to determine the viability of a food organics garden organics (FOGO) collection service.

“There’s no guarantee of the outcome at this stage. It’s now being assessed by us and the councils but we’d like to think that there’s a high likelihood that this project would proceed, moving up to potentially another 20,000 tonnes of organic product being diverted from iw landfill,” Greskie said.

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G&B Lawyers partner Kim Glassborow.

Going up in flames!

Fires at waste facilities and what you need to know

By Kim Glassborow OVER the past few months, an alarming number of resource recovery and waste management facilities have caught fire causing significant damage to infrastructure, plant and equipment.

There are legal requirements that specify what waste facilities must do to prevent fires as well as what must be done in the event of a fire.

At times of an emergency, it is important you have procedures in place that are effective and can be implemented without delay.

Planning requirements Since the 1980s, the NSW Department of Planning has attempted to manage the risk of fire during the planning and design phase of certain developments.

To date, the more stringent requirements of undertaking a Fire Safety Study have been limited to “potentially hazardous developments”.

However, there has been an increasing number of fire incidents which have

occurred at waste facilities that are not categorised as potentially hazardous, yet do contain large volumes of combustible material. Though not required by the law, the relevant authorities have been pushing for more stringent risk assessments to be undertaken to prevent the risk of fire at all types of industrial facilities. The Fire Safety Study Guidelines (NSW Department of Planning, 2011) recommend that basic fire safety issues should be considered early in the planning and design process for a new development.

Insurance impacts As a result of the recent fires in NSW and Victoria, insurance brokers Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance Brokers have warned that an increase in insurance premiums for waste management businesses is likely. However, businesses with strong risk mitigation processes in place may experience lower premiums than those that do not. This shows an economic benefit for waste facilities that have procedures including: • regular checks and maintenance of

fire safety equipment; • preparation and display of emergency evacuation plans; • fire warden training; • maintenance of equipment such as bunding and electricals; and • safe storage of flammable material.

EPA’s requirements Under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (NSW) a licence holder is required to prepare a Pollution Incident Response Management Plan (PIRMP) (Section 153A).

Failure to do so may attract a penalty of up to $1 million. This plan must include: 1. The procedures to be followed in notifying a ‘pollution incident’ to premises in the vicinity and the relevant authority.

2. A detailed description of the action to be taken to reduce or control the pollution.

Licence holders are required to report pollution incidents causing or threatening material harm to the environment immediately to relevant authorities

including the EPA, NSW Health, Fire and Rescue NSW, SafeWork NSW, the local council and premises in the vicinity.

A ‘pollution incident’ is an incident during which there is or is likely to be a leak, spill or other escape or deposit of a substance, as a result of which pollution has occurred, is occurring or is likely to occur. In the event of a fire, the procedures in the PIRMP must be followed.

An increase in the prevalence of fires prompts consent authorities to require applicants for development consents or Environment Protection Licences to provide further information regarding fire safety measures from the outset. There are a multitude of reasons to consider fire risks and safety measures from the start of the development process. For established facilities, it is also never too late to upgrade processes and procedures.

Kim Glassborow is a partner at G&B Lawyers specialising in waste management legislation, planning and environmental law. Contact: kglassborow@gandblawyers.com.au iw

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Avoiding pitfalls in tenders

By Maurice Doria WASTE management contracts are amongst the most significant and critical services contracts in the local government sector because they involve an essential municipal service. They are often longterm contract arrangements, involving multimillion dollar commitments. We often see avoidable problems and sometimes they occur early in the tender process, such as using incorrect contractual documents and misunderstandings about the legal framework under which the tender process itself is conducted.

Often the first time lawyers are called in is when a contractual dispute has broken out and relationships have soured, preventing speedy and inexpensive resolutions. Occasionally, the dispute can be traced back to something which could have been easily addressed in the tender process.

Typically, the problems we encounter involve inadequate or unclear specifications for the required services, use of inappropriate contract documents,

and negotiations straying beyond the core purpose of the tender itself.

Key to success is understanding the potential pitfalls and addressing them right from the beginning. Here are the pitfalls we commonly see in tenders conducted by local government that can be avoided.

1. Not understanding the local government tendering process: Local government tenders (especially in NSW) can only operate within the relevant legislative framework. In NSW, this means the limited tender decisions open to councils under the Local Government Act need to be well understood. For example, the ‘best and last offer’ approach commonly found in state government tenders is not available. So councils in NSW must ensure they gather the best available offer at the outset because ‘price changes’ during negotiations as part of a tender process can be dangerous. This is not always appreciated by the tenderers from the private sector.

Potential waste management suppliers need to understand the ability

for them to move after tender closes is extremely limited - you can’t have a tender that ‘evolves’ and changes. You need to present your best tender the first time, which means all the leg work to protect yourself and achieve the best deal needs to be done early.

2. Not properly understanding the subject matter: The key to successful tendering is ensuring all parties properly understand the goods or services they require and accurately describe them in the tender. A tender will lead to a contract, and waste management contracts are complex beasts. Well thought out service specifications are the key to avoiding this pitfall and will better place the parties to reach a consensus that more easily translates into legally binding contracts.

Councils should seriously consider greater consultation with the private sector in formulating their specifications so that they conduct tenders for what the market can more readily deliver.

3. Using inadequate documentation: Local government is most at risk here.

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being requested and using appropriate contract documents is essential. This may sound obvious, but often this pitfall appears. A waste management contract can mean many different things, and cover many different areas. If you don’t have a contract which suits your needs, then the ability to enforce that contract may be compromised. A common mistake is using the wrong contract for the wrong task.

4. Failing to ask important questions at the beginning: Asking the right questions early is critical for a successful tender. There is no substitute for detailed analysis of service requirements and proper interrogation during the tender process to ensure the right service is being procured and then actually delivered. Given the complexity of waste management contracts, advice sought early will often be more valuable and help deliver better outcomes than advice sought later, once a contractual dispute erupts.

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Jimmy Jaggs, second from right, has attended 20 Coffs conferences, including Waste 2016, which was just a little bit fancy with its Great Gatsbythemed conference dinner. (Credit: Impact Environmental)

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Coffs times 20 MANY of you may know Jimmy Jaggs, SUEZ’s council liaison and waste veteran who has been to not one or five Coffs conferences but 20 of the 21 events that Impact Environmental has organised! And of course he was there when A Current Affair “dropped in” in 2006. He’s also played a fairly big role in keeping delegates entertained more on that to come.

Inside Waste speaks to Jaggs about his time in the sector, and tries to get

him to dish the dirt on the conferences he’s attended.

IW: So, you’ve been in the sector for a long time. Tell us more about the work you’ve done and what you’ve been up to.

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ourselves The Sydney Recycling Centre and we built a materials handling plant in Alexandria, which we later sold to Collex, which today is Veolia. I stayed in Veolia for two years because I was the managing director and later moved to consult to URM, then Waste Services, which changed to WSM. Now, I’m with SUEZ as their council liaison, but I’m doing quite a lot of other work as well.

I’m developing resource recovery for MSW at Camellia and we’re achieving 82% diversion from landfill just from the red lidded bin. We’ve had to clean the plastic out quite a bit so we’re down to about 78%-79% diversion from landfill.

It’s exciting times - I’ve started a company called Solar Combined and that does leachate treatment with solar and I’m nearly finished the container which houses machinery to do the testing (more will be revealed in the August issue of Inside Waste).

IW: Why do you attend the Coffs conferences?

Jaggs: Councils will go there to look at what’s coming out, what’s best practice.

For me I’ll go and choose the things I want to look at but mostly it’s about meeting up with people that you don’t get a chance to meet up with every day and talking to them about what they’re doing. It’s mostly networking.

IW: What were the early Coffs conferences like?

Jaggs: It was a lot of fun! In those days, a lot of the councils came with the councillors who came to learn about what waste was about, what people were doing, and they brought along their waste managers. Many years ago, the managers in councils who looked after waste were engineers, they weren’t waste officers.

IW: And how have the conferences changed over the last 21 years?

Jaggs: The consultants have taken over a little bit more. They’re giving a lot of

information but they’re not really talking to the industry. 15 to 20 years ago, the industry was talking to the customers about what they can do but now, it’s the consultants who have come between the contractors and the councils and it’s shows up in the tendering process where the consultants have these ideas that may not be practical or are quite expensive to put into practice. There are some very good ideas and everyone wants to do the right thing but some are quite costly. I believe that if a council puts a tender out for collection, even for processing, they should be asking the contractor to give them ideas, don’t put in the tender what they want, but say: you’re the expert, you come back with what you can do and give us a price.

I still find Coffs fun but I believe the contractors need to be more involved in what they’re doing. They are the ones who will come up with the innovative ideas, not the consultants.

IW: And of course everyone loves the conference dinner… any memorable events?

Jaggs: The best conference I attended was a few years ago [2007] because the waste industry had a band called the Get Wasted Band. I was the singer and we had a lot of ladies who sang backup. It was a very good conference.

The funniest conference was when A Current Affair was there [in 2006 as part of an exposé on councillors wasting ratepayers’ money by attending the conference] and they were there with their cameras and everyone was ducking for cover. That was really funny. I got caught doing the Conga dressed up as the pope with a cigar and a sombrero on. I was working for government at the time and that was embarrassing.

Editor’s note: We’ve found a video of the Get Wasted Band and we bet you’ll recognise these rock stars. Check out the video here: iw http://bit.ly/2pZvg41

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The G&B Lawyers team sponsored the much-needed massage station this year.

This year, 585 delegates made their way to Coffs Harbour for Waste 2017 - the biggest Coffs conference to date.

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DANCING QUEENS (AND KINGS) TWENTY-ONE years since the first Coffs Harbour Waste Management Conference or Coffs conference, Coffs Waste Conference, Waste (insert year) as it is known to many around the country - and the event is still going strong.

This year, Impact Environmental went above and beyond, organising an extra day of sessions that covered education, social enterprise, and landfill and the event drew a large crowd.

All up, 585 delegates made their way to the beautiful Coffs Harbour to listen to 130 presenters, network with their peers, and learn more about the technology, services, and equipment offered by 80 sponsors and exhibitors.

And this year, the theme of the annual conference dinner was the 1970s… we have never seen so many tie-dye shirts, bell-bottoms, and platform shoes all in the one place! iw Here’s an idea of what went down at the conference in May.

Hundreds took the opportunity to network and view the outdoor exhibits at the conference welcome reception.

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This year, 80 sponsors and exhibitors showcased their products and services both indoors and out.

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Cleanaway, Waste 2017’s coffee sponsor, played a key role in keeping delegates awake (especially after the conference dinner).

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Keeping up with the tempo FOR more than 45 years, Waste Expo USA has been bringing the industry together and this year, the world gathered in New Orleans where it was clear the event, after all these years, has not missed a beat.

Inside Waste’s Ross and Ainsley May were among the 15,000 participants who gathered over four days to vist 650 displays, and joined in the discussions that took place across multiple conference streams and specialist colocated conferences.

They reported live from the event and here’s a snapshot of what went down at jazz central.

Is big data smart?

Scott Luckach from Regrig Pacific, was one of the presenters speaking about ‘Big Data and Smart Waste’ at the event.

He noted that the key benefit for waste collection companies in using ‘big data’ is to learn the habits of customers to serve them better.

The challenge for these companies though, is determining what do with all this information, according to Don Ross from Kessler Consulting, another

keynote speaker on the topic.

Today, data can be gathered from a huge variety of sources such as route optimisation, bin volumes, service verifications for trucks and behaviour tracking such as capturing customer data relating to recycling habits.

There are also many different technologies used to capture this data from safety and camera tools, videos, in-cab devices, despatch and work orders and on-board scales.

Ross said the key to using big data smartly was to determine what is most important to your operation.

The future of smart trucks Predictive Analytics is the key to the future of smart trucks according to Mark Howerton from Daimler, Curtis Dorwart from Mack, and Tony Romano from 3rd Eye Mobile Vision, who presented a session on the future of smart trucks.

Trucks will be able to do more self-diagnosis in the next five years.

Telematics and connectivity will be the next big thing enabling trucks to ‘phone home’ to advise when things aren’t working. The data will become

so sophisticated that it will be able to diagnose whether you can finish your route or not. This will enable the business to order parts in more quickly to rectify the problem resulting in less loss of productivity.

There will be also be improvements in safety technology. The team predicted all new trucks will come standard with lane departure technology, collision mitigation technology and more cameras and sensors to allow truck drivers to see what is around the truck.

The panel also said we would see an increase in third party integration with companies that could provide data to make a network or fleet more productive.

The digitalisation of waste and recycling There is not enough money being spent on technology in the waste industry but this will change in the next few years, according to Jimmy Martin, CEO of AMCS Group.

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the US, and Martin was part of an expert panel presenting on how technology will affect the way the waste and recycling industry does business.

“How we all do business and interact with one another is going through seismic changes. It is imperative for businesses to adapt quickly to these changes. Technology is the key enabler to help drive and embrace these changes,” Martin said.

He noted that globally, the waste and recycling industry is worth more than US$1 trillion (AU$1.36 trillion) but less than 1% of that was spent on IT. However, Martin said by 2025, the top three areas that businesses would be spending money on IT would be mobile internet, automation of knowledge work, and the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT).

Tim Lake, from Cisco, explained that the “IoT is the intelligent connectivity of physical devices driving massive gains in efficiency, business growth, and quality of life.”

He said in the future, technology would enable businesses to better communicate with their customers, for example by sending out alerts reminding them of rubbish collection schedules or letting them know how far away the truck is.

Lake envisages the data that truck sensors and cameras collect could be used across council departments, for example to indicate where potholes in roads are, where street lighting is out, or where graffiti hotspots can be found.

Mike Marsden from Waste Management, the largest operator in the US, said he envisioned that real-time video being captured by technology such as drones and inside of vehicles would be used for training, to increase safety, for customer service, and it could be provided online or via apps for customers to view.

The exhibition hall at Waste Expo 2017 showed that there was definitely an appetite for investing in IT with more than 50 companies there just selling software and many others selling hardware such as sensors and scanners - the largest contingent of vendors iw other than recycling equipment.

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Mapping out Australia’s biomass resources

By Jan Arreza AT the Australian Organics Recycling Association’s (AORA) National Conference in May in Adelaide, Renewables SA’s bioenergy resources project officer Mary Lewitzka took to the stage to discuss the $6.2 million Australian Biomass and Bioenergy Assessment (ABBA) project, which will deliver a national database of biomass resources for bioenergy across Australia.

ABBA’s purpose is to catalyse investment in the renewable energy

sector through the provision of detailed information about biomass resources across Australia.

This information aims to assist in project development and decision-making for new bioenergy projects and provide linkages between biomass supply, through the supply chain to the end user.

To achieve this, the project will collect on a state-by-state basis data on the location, volumes and availability of biomass for inclusion on the Australian Renewable Energy Mapping Infrastructure (AREMI) platform.

The AREMI project will be developed using the Cesium platform developed by Data61 – an open source, internet browser-based visualisation platform. Pictured is a screen shot of the how the mapping works. (Source: ARENA)

“This will assist in project development and decision-making for new bioenergy projects with geospatial data available to renewable energy developers, policy makers and others, providing a multifaceted dataset that will complement existing related information, such as energy infrastructure, power utilities, population numbers, and land use data,” Lewitzka said.

“As well as providing the biomass industry relevant data and information on the ARENI platform, the project will assist in creating a market pool for bioenergy through bioenergy availability to biomass demand.”

Previous biomass resource mapping

has either been undertaken at a regionally specific scale or is incomplete and the lack of reliable information on biomass feedstocks is a significant roadblock to the development of bioenergy projects across the country.

ABBA seeks to change that.

“Both through the use of multiple layers of the AREMI platform and through state-based industry development processes, potential bioenergy users are being linked with energy producers and regions of high industry potential for future development activities,” Lewitzka said.

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[ABBA] will assist in project development and decision-making for new bioenergy projects with geospatial data available to renewable energy developers, policy makers and others, providing a multi-faceted data set that will complement existing related information, such as energy infrastructure, power utilities, population numbers, and land use data.

Both through the use of multiple layers of the AREMI platform and through state-based industry development processes, potential bioenergy users are being linked with energy producers and regions of high industry potential for future development activities. we all work very closely together to make sure that this is going to be a very good quality product that’s very useful for this industry, and we’re going to build on current regional-based data to fill in the gaps for a national approach with public accessibility.”

RIRDC will develop the first central and national source of biomass resources and include interactive tools to enable better access to information.

The project outputs will include a detailed analysis of the types, volumes and locations of potential bioenergy feedstocks in each state.

The project will also enable better links between biomass suppliers and

end users, supporting local businesses to get more value from organic material destined for landfill, disposal, or other low value uses by improving information access and quality.

The AREMI platform will enable RIRDC to geospatially map existing and projected biomass resource data alongside other parameters such as existing network and transport infrastructure, land use capability and demographic data.

“Some of the government policies and initiatives around renewable energy have changed so now is a really good time for us to get together and make the most of having this really

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good policy framework in place,” Lewitzka said.

“Each state has policies and initiatives in place that are aligned with and complement the ABBA project and the AREMI platform, and each state’s teams work in collaboration with other departments in each state and with industry as well.

“Collaboration on the baseline, which is going to serve as a template for the biomass datasets, is being worked on by all of the states. We’re making sure that the data is of the highest quality and accuracy and that the datasets are consistent within the state and nationally.”

With the AREMI platform, the user is able to access renewable energy information as well as some other general information around this space, which can then be overlayed on top of other datasets, which is a really useful thing to have for decision support and analysis.

AREMI also allows users to share mapping data information with those in the renewable energy sector, store and access geospatial data information from multiple sources, search and visualise multiple data layers in 3D, and produce and export high resolution maps.

“AREMI can provide the information

to boost development and deployment of renewable energy in Australia, so this is a very useful platform with a lot of quality data available that will be really useful for the industry and decision makers,” Lewitzka said.

“This is the workflow that we are looking to establish, which we of course have already started with the data collection phase and each state having already collected a fair bit of data.

“So far a major food manufacturer looking for consultation on developing a 5MW plant has already used AREMI in Tasmania, which was used to determine the amount of available residuals in the region.

“In South Australia as part of the Bioenergy Roadmap, we have a pre-feasibility client that wants to have a look at whether a bioenergy project will be suitable for them, and I already know that consultants are using the information that we’ve got on AREMI to help inform them on that pre-feasibility study.

“We’ve got a competitive market so the recycled organics are a commodity in that space - there is demand and supply, there’s going to be a pricing mechanism, there’s going to be standards, procedures, all of those iw sorts of things.”

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Tyre recycling //

Bulk bag dischargers, a big help in the rubber crumbing process END-OF-LIFE tyres… they are one of the perennial problems that plague not just Australia, but countries around the world. Inside Waste has looked at several potential and novel solutions over the years, from using it in explosives to destructive distillation. And of course, there’s the established and ongoing use of rubber crumb in various applications, from road surfacing to soil conditioners to manufacturing plastic.

Flexicon Corporation, which designs and manufactures bulk handling equipment and custom-engineered and integrated plant-wide systems, is in the business of helping recyclers

improve their efficiency post-crumbing, through its bulk bag dischargers.

The company’s Bulk-Out Bulk Bag Discharger system promises to change the way bulk material is stored and shipped, and says the system overcomes limitations of outdated designs, ultimately improving safety, cleanliness, and convenience for the recycler.

There are three models in Flexicon’s Bulk-Out Bulk Bag Discharger range the BFF Series dischargers with a bag lifting frame for forklift loading and unloading of bulk bags, the BFC Series dischargers with a cantilevered I-beam, electric hoist and trolley for loading and unloading of bulk bags without

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the use of a forklift, and the Half Frame series, which requires operators to load bags. The first two, the company says, are the most popular options.

The bulk bag discharger and flexible screw conveyor feed rough ground particles and rubber buffings to the cracker mill. The bulk bag is loaded into the discharger frame by electric hoist and trolley suspended from a cantilevered I-beam. The wide frame accommodates open-bottom design bags.

Giving operators an edge Over in the US, where some 290 million waste tyres are generated each year, six million find their way to Edge Rubber in Pennsylvania. The company operates the country’s oldest fine mesh crumb rubber plant and it uses six Flexicon bulk bag dischargers to boost its productivity and efficiency.

Essentially, Edge Rubber shreds the tyres into 1.3cm particles, which are then fed into 907kg bulk bags.

The ground particles make up 80% of the raw materials that Edge Rubber processes into fine mesh crumb rubber.

The other 20% arrive in small bags from tyre re-treaders that grind a portion of the tread from used tyres prior to applying new tread to the carcasses, generating 0.5cm buffings.

Edge Rubber has eliminated manual dumping of small bags from its production process. Instead, it first transfers the contents of small bags into bulk bags which are stored, or discharged to feed ground rubber particles, along with rough shredded particles, to a cracker milling process to further reduce particle size.

It uses six automated BFC dischargers to move the rubber particles from the bulk bags to the cracker mills, with integral flexible screw conveyors from Flexicon. An operator loads a bulk bag onto the discharger frame by electric hoist and trolley on a cantilevered I-beam; the discharger unloads the particles into a 0.56m3 capacity floor hopper from which a 4.57m long flexible screw conveyor transports them into one of six cracker mills.

Once the bag is in place, the operator pulls the tied end through an iris valve, which prevents material flow while the bulk bag is being untied and allows controlled discharge of the material into the hopper once the bag has been opened.

Due to the nature of the rubber particles, material flow from the bag can be inconsistent. In order to ensure

continuous and efficient operation, Flexicon’s Flow Flexer bag activation devices that are positioned on the frame continually compress and release opposite sides of the bulk bag to promote flow through the bag spout into the floor hopper.

The rubber particles flow from the discharge port of the floor hopper and charging adapter into the 4.57m long Model 1450 flexible screw conveyor, which is driven by an electric motor located at the discharge end of the conveyor. This then feeds the rubber particles through a transition adapter into the cracker mill.

Edge Rubber says before acquiring Flexicon’s systems, the company had to manually empty small bags of material from tyre re-treaders into the cracker mill. If the tyre shredder was down for maintenance or repair, the volume of buffings fed to the cracker mills was not enough to maintain full production speed, slowing down the ambient grinding process.

Unlike the slow process of manually emptying bags, Flexicon’s bulk bag dischargers and flexible screw conveyors feed all raw material into the cracker mills in a continuous, automatic flow, increasing throughput and decreasing inventory.

“Our flexible screw conveyors and bulk bag dischargers have made the transporting of the shredded materials between various processing stations faster, safer and much more efficient,” Flexicon Australia director of sales, Australia and Southeast Asia, Simon Hall, told Inside Waste.

“Our customer feels that they are now one of the most efficient scrap rubber recycling plants in the United States. As an integral part of the global Flexicon network, Flexicon Australia has access to the engineering and construction know-how that went into this US job and is able to replicate it here. We offer a solution to the environmental problem iw of scrap tyres.”

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SR130, SR150

Dimensions: varies subject to configurations and tools Horsepower: 51HP to 110HP Operating weight: 2580kg to 4140kg Operating capacity: 635kg to 1678kg Tipping load: 1270kg to 3357kg Bucket breakout force: 1852kg to 3333kg Engine: Cat C2.2 to Cat C3.8 Base price: P.O.A More: www.cat.com

Boom Style: radial lift Dimensions: 2435mmx1518mm Horsepower: 49hp – 60hp Operating weight: 2300 - 2430kg Operating capacity: 590 - 680kg Tipping load: 1179 - 1361kg Boom breakout: 12.7 - 14kN Bucket breakout force: 18.5kN Engine: ISM - 2.2lt Base price: P.O.A More: www.casece.com

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Max engine output: 26-75hp Max power at: 2800RPM Max torque at: 2200RPM Breakout force: 2800kg Tipping load: 1080 to 3200kg Bucket capacity: 0.2-2.0m3 Operating weight: 1850kg to 5000kg Engine: Kubota and water cooled Deutz Base price: $48,999+GST More: www.schaffer-loaders.com.au

Schaffer Loaders

Caterpillar Inc.

Caterpillar Inc.

// Product profiles: skid steers and wheel loaders

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521F

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Boom Style: Z bar & tool carrier Max engine output: 142hp Max power at: 142hp @ 1800rpm Max torque at: 608nM @ 1600rpm Breakout force: 8756kg Tipping load straight: 8365kg Bucket capacity: 1.7m Operating weight: 10409 - 11189kg

Max engine output: 103kw/140 HP Max power at: 103 kw/140 HP @ RPM 2000 Max torque at: NM 548 @ RPM 1500 Breakout force: 95kN Tipping load (straight): 8800kg Bucket capacity: 2.3m3 Operating weight: 11250kg

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MLT-X 960

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Dimensions: 6.10x2.48x2.53m Operating weight: 11,400kg Lifting height: 9.00m Maximum forward reach: 5.30m Lifting capacity: 6000kg Turning radius: 5.49m (with forks) Engine: John Deere Travel speed: 40kph

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Dimensions: 5.22x2.42x2.58 Operating weight: 8816kg (with forks) Lifting height: 7.55m Maximum forward reach: 4.57m Lifting capacity: 4500kg Turning radius: 4.16m Engine: Mercedes Stage III A Travel speed: 33kph

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Horsepower: from 35 HP (26kW) to 74.3 HP (55kW) Rated Operating Capacity: from 798kg to 1790kg Operating weight: from 1744 to 4953 Max Pin Height: from 2855mm to 3474mm Dimensions (overall width): from 1060mm to 1957mm Tipping load (with bucket): from 1597kg to 3597kg Bucket breakout force: from

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Boom combination: 6m straight boom & 4m stick with tipping kinematics Tool: sorting grab SG 25B 0.75m3 Maximum reach: 10.2m Cabin type: TOPS for elevating cabin Engine: Liebherr D924, 4 cylinder 105 kw (143HP) @ 1800RPM Travel speed: 12km/h

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UNCOVER SOLUTIONS & INNOVATIONS The Australasian Waste & Recycling Expo returns to Melbourne this year, bringing together industry leaders and professionals for two days of networking, discussion and innovation.

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Expos(ed): who brings their A game?

WASTE Expo USA is, in some respects, like Australian waste expos in that it brings together a cross section of the waste and recycling sector to share information, ideas and learn about new projects and technologies. Tie that with some networking and social functions and most consider these events worthwhile.

But it is the differences between American expos - in this instance, Waste Expo USA that was held in May - and Aussie events that Wasted Space has reflected on. And a few differences have surfaced. Here are just five areas where the Americans have impressed the Aussies.

1. Collaboration. Waste Expo USA is presented by Waste 360, a leading online publication for the waste and recycling industry, in collaboration with the National Waste and Recycling Association. Yet you will also find half a dozen other waste, recycling, and organics associations joining the party, including specialist groups in plastics, healthcare, organics, construction and demolition waste, and others. All working together to create a comprehensive event that is widely supported.

2. Generosity. Waste Expo USA feels like the gathering of a supportive, likeminded community with common goals. Presenters in conference

sessions are positive and quick to speak well of their competitors as equally competent suppliers of products and services. And everyone is welcome to social functions associated with the event - an open bar means “all welcome” until drinks run out. And on the second day of the expo the whole event grinds to a halt as everyone gathers for the annual fundraising auction that this year raised US$1.5 million (AU$2.03 million) for the Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF). Since the auction began, US$17 million has been raised and provides a solidarity of purpose. The vendors are generous with their donations and the waste and recycling sector, whose CEOs turn out in force, are generous with their bids. This funds and directs scientific research and educational initiatives for waste management practices to benefit industry participants and the communities they serve - we like that!

3. Education is the focus of sessions.

This includes stripping out heavily technical subjects for dedicated attention - healthcare and organics are a good example. And this is done in the context of the overarching event, ensuring these specialists are not separated from the rest of the industry. Everyone is in the tent.

4. Depth. The exhibition is as much

a platform for the major waste companies to meet with and thank their clients (the top three US waste contractors all had large exhibition booths) as it is for vendors to display their goods and services. And as a consequence, the majority of exhibitors are deeper in the supply chain than we typically see in Australia. Tyre suppliers like Goodyear and Trelleborg releasing tyres designed for the waste and recycling industry for example, lubricant companies presenting research and case studies that demonstrate considerable cost savings for operators, wear parts, coatings, paints, labels, insurance, finance, fire suppression… need we go on? There was a lot of depth to provide a strong proposition for improved operational performance.

The result is a must-attend event for waste, recycling, and organics stakeholders from all over the USA. 5. Technology, technology, technology.

This starts with the software, IT and hardware vendors, yet is just as prevalent at the equipment displays. Caterpillar is changing the way it numbers its models to recognise the rapid development of technology. Robots - once exciting

August 23-24 Australasian Waste & Recycling Expo Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre The Australasian Waste & Recycling Expo (AWRE) is the most established commercial event dedicated to the Australasian waste and recycling marketplace. The event brings together the industry to generate quality sales leads; discover the latest trends; showcase innovation; network with key waste and recycling decision makers from industry and government; and attend high quality practical seminars and workshops. www.awre.com.au

October 11-12 Waste Expo Australia Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre Waste Expo Australia will be co-located with All-Energy Australia, Reed Exhibitions’ market-leading clean energy exhibition and conference.

Waste Expo Australia will bring together Australian and international solution providers in the waste management, recycling, resource recovery and sustainability sectors, showcasing the latest technology, products, services and turnkey solutions. There will also be a free-toattend conference program, designed to educate and provide exhibitors and industry professionals with the opportunity to share knowledge on a range of topics, focusing on new industry developments and the latest trends and innovations. www.wasteexpoaustralia.com.au

new technology are now old news and the new news is the advanced intelligence driving the robots and the facilities in which they operate.

Typically called machine learning or artificial neural networks, every aspect of materials recovery is being transformed. Facilities operate faster, longer, more accurately and with fewer man hours and the harder they work, the better they get - we like that too.

Inside Waste magazine will be organising a study tour to coincide with Waste Expo USA 2018 in Las Vegas. The study tour will include visits to facilities in California and Nevada as well as meetings with industry leaders in regulation and technology. If you are interested in being kept informed of the study tour please email ross@mayfam.net.

DIARY June 15 WCRA Industry Update 2017 Waterview in Bicentennial Park, Sydney Since 1948, the Waste Contractors & Recyclers Association of NSW (WCRA) has assisted members in meeting the issues of the day, relevant to the waste and recycling industry. This annual event provides stakeholders with information on a range of topics critical to operating in the current environment as well as a forum to discuss the many opportunities and challenges. The Industry Update will provide delegates with a balanced program on a range of topics including; chain of responsibility in the waste Industry; the waste levy - positive or perverse outcomes; employment relations update; glass recycling; and an update from the NSW EPA. Dinner follows the Industry Update and we have invited the Minister for the Environment, The Hon. Gabrielle Upton MP to be our dinner speaker and special guest. www.wcra.com.au

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October 11-13 WasteQ Mackay Entertainment Centre, Queensland The Waste Management Association of Australia (WMAA) 2017 WasteQ Conference - Reshaping Regional Resilience - will focus on circular economy, shifting our way of thinking towards practices that are “restorative” and support materials and components being reused or recycled many times over. It will be supplemented by themes including: the data revolution; heavy vehicle reform; best practices; innovation and contracts/tendering. www.wasteq.com.au

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ISUZU READY-TO-WORK RANGE.

THE ONLY WAY YOUR AVERAGE UTE STACKS UP AGAINST AN ISUZU. Depending on the model you choose, Isuzu’s Ready-to-Work range lets

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