Activity Group: Solid Waste Management Activity: Solid Waste Management the ability to influence the direction of our waste management and minimisation planning. Council also collects refuse and recyclables from the kerbside in How this Activity Contributes to the Vision and Related Blenheim and Picton through a contract. Community Outcomes The Waste Situation This Activity helps to achieve the Vision by enabling the community, including industries, to take a progressive approach to waste management and to contribute The landfill receives up to 50,000 tonnes of waste each year. The resource to a healthy natural environment. It also contributes to the Community Outcomes recovery centre diverts up to 5,500 tonnes of domestic recycling (card/paper, of Governance, Environment, People, Economy, Connectivity and Living as plastics, cans and glass). The waste sorting centre diverts up to 4,000 tonnes of outlined below. skip and transfer waste (card/paper, plastics, GIB, glass, metal, rubble, tyres and wood). The compost site diverts up to 18,000 cubic metres (3,000 tonnes) of Outcome Actions greenwaste. The hazardous waste facility processes up to 50 tonnes of domestic Governance Enabling communities to be involved with Council projects that and commercial materials. impact on them such as infrastructure development and regulatory The transfer stations and the resource recovery centre provide the opportunity for issues. source segregation of recyclables by the public. Environment Promoting effective and efficient waste management systems across the district. The waste sorting centre in Blenheim provides an opportunity to process transfer People Protecting public health and reducing environmental impacts from and skip waste, and to divert suitable materials for reuse, recycling or recovery. waste. The Bluegums landfill site is an engineered containment facility for the depositing Economy Providing key infrastructure for waste and recycling services to of waste residues. Based on the current level of waste disposal the site will be support our economy. filled by 2071. Connectivity Providing effective and accessible reuse and recycling facilities that encourage and improve waste diversion. The greenwaste facility provides an opportunity to divert garden waste, excluding grass clippings, away from landfill by composting. Grass clippings are sent to Living Investing in, and planning for, infrastructure to provide for the landfill for disposal rather than composted as they contain traces of herbicides social and economic well-being, and the health and safety of (Clopyralid). These herbicides are persistent and are not broken down during Marlborough’s communities. composting. What is this Activity About? Hazardous waste materials such as oils, paints, and solvents can be dropped at Marlborough District Council is bound by legislation to ensure that our solid waste each of the transfer stations. These materials are then collected and returned to a is managed in an effective and efficient manner, reducing any potential storage facility adjacent to the Blenheim transfer station, pending onward environmental impact and protecting public health. Council is the main source of movement for disposal or recycling. waste management infrastructure for the district, providing a network of seven transfer stations, a central landfill, waste sorting centre, resource recovery centre, The district has a number of cleanfill sites for the disposal of materials such as reuse centre, e-waste collection facility, hazardous waste storage facility, rural brick, concrete, rubble and non-contaminated soils. In addition the district has a community recycling stations and salvage yard. They are all operated under number of scrap yards for the receipt of ferrous and non-ferrous metals as well as contract to Council. scrap vehicles. These sites are operated by private contractors. These facilities are designed and operated to ensure the minimum impact on Waste Management and Minimisation Plan people’s amenity and the environment. By promoting the reduction, reuse and The Council is the territorial authority for the Marlborough District and as such is recycling of waste we will reduce our reliance on landfill for disposal and also have required to develop, adopt, maintain and review a waste management and 2018-2028 Long Term Plan Page 100