The new QPRC Waste Strategy 2025- 2045 was adopted at the Council meeting of the 28th January 2026.
Objectives of the Waste Strategy
This Strategy has been prepared to provide an approach for waste and resource management in the LGA over the next 20 years in a manner which maximises landfill diversion and resource recovery.
The key objectives of the Waste Strategy are to:
• provide an overview of the existing waste management practices and services offered;
• engage and gauge community views on current and potential waste management options;
• identify options for waste management and resource recovery across the whole LGA, in consideration of population growth, adequacy and longevity of existing waste infrastructure, urban encroachment and recognition of rural/ remote service considerations;
• develop key actions to assist Council in implementing the Waste Strategy over a 20-year timeframe
• provide consistency with and the ability to meet the objective and ambitions of the NSW Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy 2041 and the Canberra Region Joint Organisation (CRJO) Regional Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy and Action Plan 2022-27 (CRJO Strategy), and Roadmap; and
• Meeting the objective of a sustainable, “clean green” community outlined in the QPRC 2017 Strategic Directions paper.