Conclusions and recommendations Roles of stakeholders By working together, all stakeholders to benefit from consistent and reliable household recycling. To realise the full potential benefits from the preferred service standards, detailed in OKCS, five key critical success factors have been identified, as listed in Table 6. Table 6 Critical success factors Stakeholder Success factor Packaging that is suitable for recycling: Brands, retails and Planet Ark’s Australian Recycling Label industry develops and uses product manufacturers and the PREP are examples of programs packaging that is suitable for recycling and designed to support industry address this clearly labelled as to how it is to be issue. recycled or disposed of. Households collect the right materials for To do this, households need to be Households recycling: households are provided with confident that materials are recyclable clear and consistent messaging to enable through the kerbside system and the confident and consistent separation of the system must be easy to use and core set of common recyclable materials. convenient. Preferred service standards for kerbside Councils collection: councils to provide cost effective kerbside collection services with Councils have a critical role to provide adequate bin capacity, consistent bin lid households with an easy to use and colours that conform to AS 4123.7 and convenient kerbside collection service. recycling services that support a core set of recyclable materials. Higher quality materials are collected and Councils have a critical role to engage Councils sorted for recycling: councils present a with households ensuring confusion is higher quality and consistent/core set of reduced and that households are materials to Victoria’s resource recovery confident in using the services correctly industry to support high order reprocessing i.e. yielding recyclable materials low in and end use contamination and higher in quality. Promote and share innovation in kerbside Waste and recycling: developments in approaches to resource recovery Engagement with industry has confirmed kerbside recycling are continuously shared industry there is a willingness to support this to ensure that good practice and initiative. innovation in kerbside recycling is transferred across the entire supply chain.
Conclusions and recommendations Roles of stakeholders By working together, all stakeholders to benefit from consistent and reliable household recycling. To realise the full potential benefits from the preferred service standards, detailed in OKCS, five key critical success factors have been identified, as listed in Table 6. Table 6 Critical success factors Stakeholder Success factor Brands, retails and manufacturers Packaging that is suitable for recycling: industry develops and uses product packaging that is suitable for recycling and clearly labelled as to how it is to be recycled or disposed of. Planet Ark’s Australian Recycling Label and the PREP are examples of programs designed to support industry address this issue. Households Households collect the right materials for recycling: households are provided with clear and consistent messaging to enable confident and consistent separation of the core set of common recyclable materials. To do this, households need to be confident that materials are recyclable through the kerbside system and the system must be easy to use and convenient. Councils Preferred service standards for kerbside collection: councils to provide cost effective kerbside collection services with adequate bin capacity, consistent bin lid colours that conform to AS 4123.7 and recycling services that support a core set of recyclable materials. Councils have a critical role to provide households with an easy to use and convenient kerbside collection service. Councils Higher quality materials are collected and sorted for recycling: councils present a higher quality and consistent/core set of materials to Victoria’s resource recovery industry to support high order reprocessing and end use Councils have a critical role to engage with households ensuring confusion is reduced and that households are confident in using the services correctly i.e. yielding recyclable materials low in contamination and higher in quality. Waste and resource recovery industry Promote and share innovation in kerbside recycling: developments in approaches to kerbside recycling are continuously shared to ensure that good practice and innovation in kerbside recycling is transferred across the entire supply chain. Engagement with industry has confirmed there is a willingness to support this initiative.