Request for Quote (RFQ): Cradle Coast FOGO Community Engagement Plan

⁠⁠⁠The Cradle Coast Waste Management Group (CCWMG) was formed in 2007 to improve waste management from a regional perspective, providing efficiencies and economies of scale and provide specialty waste reduction services in the North-West off Tasmania. CCWMG currently represents seven northwest Tasmanian municipal councils. These are:

• Burnie City;
• Central Coast;
• Circular Head;
• Devonport City;
• Latrobe;
• Kentish; and
• Waratah Wynyard.

Over the last year the group has been working with King Island and West Coast Council on a range of matters and these two Councils are expected to become formal members in the 2023/24 year.

Cradle Coast Waste Services (CCWS), part of the Dulverton Regional Waste Management

Authority (DWM), hosts the group and provides project management support and waste expertise to the CCWMG.

Since 2012 the CCWMG have been working to deliver consistent branding and messaging to improve community awareness about waste management across the region. The community education is an important strategy in reducing waste generation, maximising diversion of recyclables and minimising contamination of segregated materials.

In mid-2024 the group will implement a regional contract for the collection and treatment of food organics and garden organics (FOGO). Central Coast Council (CCC) already provides this service; and in its case the material will commence being treated at the Dulverton compost facility currently under construction, rather than in Launceston.

The contract will see the delivery of a new wheelie bin to all households in the system for use for food and garden scraps. This bin will be collected fortnightly. It is critical to the success of the new collection contract that the community understands what can and can't go into the "green bin" and by extension, how to better sort their recycling and waste in the existing bin suite. This community engagement service is to support the development of messaging, collateral and planning to achieve maximum diversion of organic materials with minimal contamination.