Fact Sheets and Reports

Fact Sheets AND RESOURCES

Landfill Levy Exemptions for Operational Purposes (August 2023)
EfW commentary - comparing the Netherlands' approach with Recycling Victoria (June 2020)
Briefing note: waste as an essential service (Norton Rose Fulbright, 2020)
Clinical and related waste management guidance on COVID-19 (March 2020)
WMRR landfill position paper (2020)
Time for Change: WMRR Roadmap to 2025 for Energy from Waste (December 2019)
Energy from Waste Thermal Treatment Fact Sheet (July 2019)
Biogas - An important renewable energy source

Reports

FEDERAL

Federal government waste and resource recovery reports:

For more information, please visit the Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment website.

New South Wales

NSW local government waste and resource recovery data reports:

Commercial and industrial waste stream surveys:

Other reports:

Independent Review of the NSW Resource Recovery Framework

NSW Grants Information:

For more information, please visit NSW EPA.

South Australia

South Australian recycling activity reports:

Circular Economy Resource Recovery Report (CERRR) 2020–21 (replaces the previous Recycling Activity Survey reports)
2019-20 South Australia's recycling activity survey report
2018-19 South Australia's recycling activity survey report
2017-18 South Australia's recycling activity survey report
2016-17 South Australia's recycling activity survey report
2015-16 South Australia's recycling activity survey report

South Australian kerbside waste reports:

For more information, please visit Green Industries SA

For more information, please visit SA EPA.

Victoria

Victorian Local Government Waste Service Reports:

Victorian Recycling Industry Waste Reports:

Other reports:

For more information, please visit Sustainability Victoria.

Western Australia

Western Australia Local Government waste census reports:

Western Australia recycling reports:

Western Australia reports:

For more information, please visit Waste Authority WA.

Queensland

Recycling and Waste in Queensland reports:

For more information, please visit the Queensland Department of Environment and Science website.

Guides

QLD Energy from Waste Policy (Department of Environment and Science, 2021)
NSW Energy from Waste Policy (2021)
WA Position statement on waste to energy
NSW Circular design guidelines for the built environment
QLD Energy from Waste policy (Department of Environment and Science, 2020)
PFAS NEMP 2 (Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, 2020)
SA Energy from Waste position statement (SA EPA, 2020)
NSW Standards for managing construction waste in NSW (NSW EPA, 2019)
SA Environmental management of landfill facilities - solid waste disposal (SA EPA, 2019)
NSW election priorities letter (WMRR, 2019)
Protocol for conducting source-based waste audits in the commercial and industrial sector (WMAA, 2014)
Australian Energy from Waste Glossary - An essential guide for industry, regulators and community (WMAA, 2016)