Consultation on this project has now concluded.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to let us know your ideas on waste reduction, which alongside our report information, has helped us formulate the Waste Resource Management Strategy.

The strategy has now been adopted by Council, with a provision to maintain the general waste red bin weekly service for residents and investigate the introduction of a Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) service for the Central Coast.

You can read the announcement on our news page. The final strategy is available on Council's website.

  • Waste Resource Management Strategy

    Following public exhibition and report to Council the Waste Resource Management Strategy has now been adopted.

    View final Strategy 

About the Central Coast Waste Resource Management Strategy

Waste is everyone’s issue – we all have a role to play in reducing the amount of waste generated its impacts on our community. The draft Strategy assesses current waste initiatives and seeks to encourage change to help minimise the amount of waste sent to landfill and its impact on the environment. This is an important step in finding solutions that close the loop on waste.

Waste Management in Australia is constantly evolving and recent changes including the Council amalgamation have provided us with an opportunity reassess our waste initiatives and seek to inspire change to help minimise the amount of waste sent to landfill and its impact on the environment.

Council cannot do this alone – we need our community to help guide where this Strategy goes and your willingness to come on board with future initiatives will be the key to its success.

We already provide a number of innovative free recycling options and education programs to help our community reduce the amount of waste being created at home and sent to landfill and these have been successful due to the motivation of our community to do the right thing.

This includes our record-breaking Chemical CleanOut events and problem waste collection units throughout Council, which has seen more than 15 tonnes of batteries, half a tonne of light globes and one tonne of mobile phones collected for recycling.

However, right now more than half of Central Coast residents’ household waste is sent to landfill. In order to make significant improvements, we need to proactively continue to re-evaluate our waste initiatives, with the aim of reducing the amount of waste we send there.