Nienke Itjeshorst
Solid Waste Services Manager
Kāpiti Coast District Council
Refuse and recycling collections in Kāpiti
NO Council kerbside collections
Commercial collectors only
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• Why did Council get out of collections?
• How did we get to where we are now?
• What is Council’s role now?
Starting point: collections funded user-pays – no rates
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before 2008
• Council operates a landfill for general waste
• Council sells and collects rubbish bags
• In principle bag sales would cover
- collection cost
- disposal cost at the Council landfill
in 2008 two major changes
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(1) Closure of the landfill for general waste Jan 2008
(2) End of Council bag collection contract July 2008
Council’s position changes significantly
Changes and innovation were needed
Council’s choice: stick to user pays funding mechanism
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2007- 2008
• Otaihanga Resource Recovery Facility
• Leased to MidWest 15 yrs in December 2008
• MidWest sets the gate fees at Otaihanga not Council
• Significant change of Council’s position in collection
market
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2008
wish to start kerbside recycling
• Open tender for rubbish and recycling collection
- Contractor collects council rubbish bags
- Alternative tender sought for kerbside recycling
• Council explored ‘partnership’ between all collectors (4)
for co-funding kerbside recycling
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July 2008
• 1 contract Council - Envirowaste (3+2)
- Council bag collection co-mingled
- recycling collection for Council bag users and the
contractor’s wheeliebin users
• All collectors agreed to ‘partner’
and fund kerbside recycling on behalf of their customers
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• Council funds 50% of recycling contract cost based on
estimated collection market share of 50% of all
households
• Collectors pay the remainder to Envirowaste based on
customer number
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• 60L crate – every week - urban
• ‘you have already paid for it’
incentive
• Collectors incorporate cost in
wheeliebin rate
• Council cost in bag price
• kerbside sort system
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Recycling introduction - strategic success
• districtwide
• no rates funding
• all residents in urban area same service
• 1 collector for all households
• paved the way for introduction of collectors license in
July 2010
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Operational perspective
• performance management resulted in complaints
decreasing every year to less than 10 calls/month
• education resulted in behaviour change and good
quality recycling
• Financially contract was not a succes for Council
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• bag price went up from $1.90 to $2.85 in 08/09
• to $3.60 retail price in 11/2
• 41% of bagprice to cover Council’s recycling cost
• co-mingled collection worked out negative for Council
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sales go
down
bag price
increases
recycle
every week
collection
cost CPI
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Council can’t be a
competitor
no offsett for
losses
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• July 2012 – discussions tender process
• What did Council have to offer? – market share
• Could Council afford to tender for more than 1 year?
• Collectors: we meet our license requirement to provide
recycling and will carry on as we are
new
Fierce competition
Bag users are switching to
wheeliebins
2 collectors started selling bags for kerbside
collection, undercutting Council and each other
$2.50!
$3!
$2.25
Council bag sales drop even further
$3.60
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Two choices discussed by Council
1.
fund kerbside recycling for whole district with rates
rates increase 1.2%
get out of bag collections
2.
exit all collections and leave collections to licensed
collectors
Decision was made to EXIT
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Council’s role
Council licenses
collectors
Collectors have to
meet Bylaw requirements
‘kerbside recyclables’
determined by Council
resolution:
• plastics 1-7 (clean)
• paper/cardboard (clean)
• glass bottles/jars
• alu/steel cans
• supermarket bags
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Council’s role
• monitor collections for
compliance
• quarterly collectors
meetings
• assist and support
• enforcement
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EDUCATE !
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