Waste Facilities - Technical Tour

Join us on this interesting and informative tour of 6 key waste facilities between Sydney and Coffs Harbour, departing from Sydney Central  Railway Station (Eddy Ave) on Monday 13th May and arriving at Opal Cove Resort, Coffs Harbour on Tuesday afternoon, 14th May, in time for the Welcome Reception (for those who are registered to attend).

Draft Itinerary

Monday 13th May  2019

Tuesday 14th May 2019

Inclusions

• Bus tour on a comfortable coach
  
• Safety gear for use on site and giveaways to keep
• Morning and afternoon teas (where applicable)
  
• Lunch on both days
  
• Dinner on the night of 13th May
  
• Accommodation for 1 night 
  

The tour is initially limited to 50 places.  The organisers reserve the right to cancel the tour if not enough interest is shown.  A full refund will be given if the tour is cancelled.

Registration Rate:  $495 pp (Inc GST).  A 20% discounted registration is available for Young Waste Professionals (as members of the WMAA) and students. Verification is required.

Highlights of the tour

Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre

The Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre (KRRC) incorporates a range or resource recovery operations, a landfill for non-putrescible solid waste, an education centre and administration building.  Waste Management activities have been undertaken at the site since 1974. KRRC has recently provided the community with a range of disposal services for special wastes, resource recovery services, the sale of recycled and reclaimed products and waste management educational activities.

Awaba Waste Management Facility

Lake Macquarie City Council has nearly completed expansion of the Awaba Waste Management Facility to extend its lifespan by an estimated 20 years. The expansion involves constructing two additional excavated landfill cells, wastewater pipeline, new weighbridge, recycling centre, amenities building, and waste transfer station. It also includes a state-of-the-art organics processing facility operated by REMONDIS to convert 44,000 tonnes per year of food and garden organic waste into compost and soil amendment products. The facility comprises a unique hybrid model of ‘in-vessel’ and ‘mobile aerated floor’ systems, cashless weighbridge, and a purpose-built education centre.

ANL Composting Facility

The ANL Tea Gardens Horticultural Products Production Facility has become integral to our provision of long term organics management solutions for the NSW central and mid north coast. To date, in excess of $5 million has been invested in site development, and infrastructure and equipment upgrades. 

ANL Tea Gardens is licenced to process 150 thousand tonnes per annum of organics, including forest residues, woodwaste and greenwaste. Included in the site upgrade has been the recent installation and commissioning of ANL’s 3rd generation Aerosorb® engineered composting system which is the first step towards eventual FOGO processing at the facility. 

Tuncurry Community Recycling Centre

The Tuncurry Waste Management Centre, established in 1976, provides a service to 35,000 residents of the Forster/Tuncurry and surrounding areas.  The site has a very successful Tip Shop, custody service order and offers training for indigenous/disadvantaged or troubled youth/individuals.  It also encompasses a community recycling drop off centre, onsite processing of reusable materials, MRF, a Men’s Shed (that has to be seen to be believed), a Community Garden, award winning design waste transfer station with a Static Compactor, vehicle registration and weighing, a free drop off for domestic and problematic waste and two way weighing of all vehicles.  It is also a drop off point for the ‘Return and Earn’ scheme with a Singulator now in operation.  

Cairncross Waste Management Facility - Port Macquarie

REMONDIS Australia is dedicated to service excellence, working collaboratively with customers and local authorities to deliver innovative, safe and reliable solutions across all industry sectors. Together, we believe we can achieve a more sustainable future … a future in which waste is a resource.

Coffs Coast Resource Recovery Park

The final destination for the tour will be the Coffs Coast Resource Recovery Park at Coffs Harbour.  The landfill site is owned and operated by Coffs Harbour City Council and this state-of-the-art waste facilities park includes: 

• a Materials Recovery Facility for the processing of recyclables operated by Handybin Waste Services (under contract to the three Coffs Coast Waste Services Councils – Coffs Harbour City, Bellingen Shire and Nambucca Shire) and, 
  
• an Alternative Waste Treatment facility which processes organics and mixed waste and is operated by Biomass Solutions Coffs Harbour (under contract to Coffs Harbour City Council, and also accepting waste from Bellingen Shire Council and Nambucca Shire Council).