The Waste & Resource Recovery Strategy (Strategy) has been developed to guide the City of Darwin towards better practice resource recovery, recycling and waste management. It sets a clear path for the investigations required and infrastructure and service improvements to be considered. This includes targets for increasing landfill diversion and contamination reduction.
The development of the Strategy included:
- Consultation with the waste, recycling and resource recovery industry in the Greater Darwin Area (GDA), the City of Palmerston, Litchfield Council and Northern Territory Government
- Consultation with Council staff and elected members, including presentations and surveys
- A Recycling Survey project to understand the waste and recycling services, facilities and performance in the GDA for the 2019/20 FY, to assess possible future demand by local government and business for land ll void space at Shoal Bay, and/or opportunities for expanded waste processing and/or re-manufacturing within a collaborative or recycling hub concept
- Review of relevant strategies, policies, plans, reports, policies, legislation and regulations
- Workshopping of the draft Strategy with elected members.
Strategy targets, initiatives and actions will be reviewed at the mid-point of the Strategy in 2026.
