Waste Management Strategy
The delivery of waste management services has long been a key service we provide to the community.
Waste management and resource recovery operate in a dynamic environment, changing in response to government policy, industry development, market conditions and other circumstances. This environment has become even more dynamic and important in recent years with the growing need to avoid waste, optimise material recovery and embrace the circular economy.
Waste Management Strategy(PDF, 14MB)
Background
The City of Hobart has committed to closing the McRobies Gully landfill site by 2030. We have also committed to zero waste to landfill, a significant commitment that requires a strategic review of waste management options.
Analysis of waste data undertaken in 2024 found Hobart creates around 42 000 tonnes of waste every year. Approximately 46 per cent of that material is recovered and either reused or recycled, preventing it from entering landfill.
The analysis also found that more than half of the "rubbish" residents put in kerbside bins is actually organic material or other recyclable objects that can be disposed of in recycle bins or FOGO bins and should not end up as landfill.
Hobart Waste Management Strategy 2025
Our waste management strategy has been designed to underpin the behavioural change needed if Hobart is to achieve its waste reduction targets.
It also maps out key actions we need to take over the next five years to allow us to embrace a circular economy and prepare for life without our own landfill site, and possibly without needing landfill at all.
As the capital city of Tasmania, Hobart, home to almost 60 000 people, has an opportunity through this new strategy to propel the community towards best practice waste management.
The strategy contains 64 actions and identifies six key focus areas:
- Avoid and reuse
- Reuse, repair and recycle
- Engage and empower
- Advocate and influence
- Lead by example
- Governance and management
Waste Management Strategy(PDF, 14MB)