MEET THE SPEAKERS

SESSION 2: WASTE LEVY

KERRYNE BARWICK

Kerryne holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law from the University of Tasmania.  She has been a practicing lawyer for 15 years doing criminal trial work.  Kerryne worked for the Legal Aid Commission of Tasmania as defence council and as a prosecutor for Tasmania Police, with specialties in family violence matters and Tasmania’s coercive control laws.  Kerryne started working at the policy branch of EPA Tasmania around 18 months ago as a senior policy officer.  She has been working on legislative development and is the instructing officer for the drafting of the Waste and Resource Recovery Bill 2021 and the associated regulations that are yet to be drafted.

SIMON KALINOWSKI

Simon is the Chief Executive Officer of Mandalay Technologies and has been leading the way in waste technology for over 20 years. Simon has spent more time thinking about bins and landfills than most of us would care to do over a dozen lifetimes. Simon does this because he is passionate about the power of waste data as a key tool to inform better decision making and drive better outcomes when it comes to our communities, the environment, and the economy. Simon believes that accurate and timely waste data is becoming an increasingly essential requirement not only for the successful management of waste facilities but also for transitioning to a more circular way of managing our resources and creating a world without waste.  

Mandalay Technologies supports waste operations and waste services for over one-third of the waste collected across Australia. Simon and the team at Mandalay Technologies work closely with local councils and private sector operators spanning many geographical boundaries – from the most high volume and densely populated cities right through to regional facilities servicing many rural and remote communities. They provide leading software and data management systems beyond the weighbridge to support the collection, management, and reporting of waste data as well as for waste levy implementation. 

MICHAEL ATTARD

Michael is an experienced waste and resource recovery professional who was appointed to his current role of Team Leader Sustainability at the City of Launceston in 2016. In this role he’s responsible for the management of the Council’s transfer stations, landfills & leachate, kerbside collection services, resource recovery, recycling MRF contracts, community engagement programs, reporting, and the implementation of Tasmania's first kerbside FOGO collection service and organics facility.

Michael is also a representative of the Northern Tasmania Waste Management Group (NTWMG), a collection of 7 councils in Northern Tasmania operating under a voluntary landfill levy to provide resource recovery advice, funding, communications, education and advocacy for individuals, community groups, organisations, and local government. 

Michael has passion for organics and e-waste recovery.