Wollondilly Shire Council

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• Slow and Local Travel

  Holidays are a break from the normal routine, yet you can break your routine at home or in your local area, it just requires a new perspective.
  
  Ask your friends for their favourite local attractions, hidden pleasures, fabulous festivals and cosmic adventures. Map a slow journey along roads, rivers and coasts that you've never travelled and see sights you've never seen. If you throw in the cash you save not flying to the other side of the planet, you can even indulge yourself, guilt fr…

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• Teach energy efficient driving

  Teach energy efficient drivingTeach your staff the art of eco-driving and reduce your fleet’s fuel consumption by 10-20 percent per annum. Every year.
  
  Driving isn’t great for the planet, but many businesses don’t have much choice. Luckily, by making a few simple changes to the way that you drive you can use less petrol to go the same distance – which means less greenhouse gas emissions and less money spent.
  
  In Victoria, a study undertaken for Environment Victoria by RMIT University students fo…

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• Buy Green Office Products

  Organisations have significant buying power. Swinging that power around to make the best use of our limited resources is easier than ever.
  
   
  
  About Green Office SuppliesOur workplaces provide great opportunities to make a real impact through our purchasing choices. Imagine the difference it would make if all organisations purchased renewable energy, used 100 per cent post-consumer recycled paper and recycled or refilled their thousands of printer cartridges.
  
  Often the shift required is minimal…

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• Shire Hall Update - Kitchen & Amenities

  After a substantial amount of work, including restoration of some original features that were uncovered along the way, the Shire Hall Early Works program has been completed and we are moving into the next phase. Council has recently engaged a builder to construct a new kitchen and toilet amenities. These will be located on the library side of the main hall. The Council meeting chambers will also be relocated from the current Administration Building to the space formerly occupied by the Family Da…

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• Trees on Public Land

  Council is committed to the holistic management of street trees in a rural and residential setting.
  
  Council recognises that trees are an essential, living infrastructure asset and resource that provides a wide range of social, environmental and economic benefits.
  
  Street trees will be pruned to:
  
  Improve line of sight for vehicular movements
  Remove any dead, dying or dangerous branches (or trees if deemed necessary)
  Allow clearance for pedestrians and vehicles
  Allow clearance to buildings (wher…

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• Waste Management Strategy & Action Plan

  Wollondilly Council’s Waste Management Strategy & Action Plan was adopted on 16 March 2021. The Strategy focuses on economically and environmentally sustainable waste management, addressing key areas including:
  
  Landfill diversion
  Domestic waste collection, processing and disposal
  Contamination management in domestic waste bins
  Domestic kerbside clean-up services
  Illegal dumping
  Management of problem wastes such as medical sharps, chemicals, mattresses and e-waste.
  
  View the Strategy and Act…

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• REQUEST FOR TENDERS – KERBSIDE WASTE COLLECTION TENDER 2026

   
  
  This Request for Tender is for the provision of waste collection services across the Wollondilly local government area (LGA). It requires the following elements:
  
  Kerbside collections for domestic properties (including Residual Waste, Recyclables and Garden Organics (GO)/Food and Garden Organics (FOGO));
  Kerbside Clean Up Service;
  Public Place Bin collection;
  Event waste bin services and collections;
  Supervised clean up collections;
  Commercial waste services;
  Provision of bins, including Mob…

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• Avoid Excessive Packaging

  Give priority to purchasing unpackaged products and save the earth's precious resources.
  
  The average Australian consumes 90 kilograms of resources in packaging each year. This is almost double the amount of many European nations. Along with this consumption comes the generation of huge amounts of waste - so it's not surprising that Australia is one of the worst waste generators in the developed world. Reducing the amount of packaging we purchase can help to significantly reduce our us…

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• A bigger and brighter Illuminate Wollondilly Festival is back in 2024

  The countdown is on for this year’s Illuminate Wollondilly Festival of Art & Light, which will see the town of Picton transformed into a wonderland of light and colour on the weekend of 20-22 September.
  
  This year’s festival will be bigger and brighter than ever, with a range of visually inspiring events and activities happening across the town over the three days.
  
  Council’s Director Shire Services, Peter Buckley said, “Illuminate has traditionally been one of the biggest events on the Woll…

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• Recycle Technical Waste

  Replicating nature's nutrient cycle by creating closed loops for the recycling and reuse of those man-made (technical) elements of our consumption delivers efficiency, reduces cost and resource use, and protects the environment.
  
  We have concentrated, extracted and combined raw natural elements into new and unique elements such as plastics, aluminium, mercury and acids. Recently we have realised that to use these resources efficiently and avoid them spoiling the environment, we need to crea…

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• Battery and Chemical Disposal

  Did you know? Australians buy 350 million household batteries each year, but only 4% of these are returned to a collection centre for recycling.
  
  It is important to recycle batteries so that toxic chemicals don't end up damaging our environment and raw materials can be used again. Recycling batteries also helps prevent fires and explosions in our waste collection vehicles.
  
  Wollondilly residents have access to a number of free battery recycling collection centres which accept any brand of A…

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• Sensory Friendly Session and Sensory Tent available during this year’s Thirlmere Festival of Steam

  As part of this year’s Thirlmere Festival of Steam, Wollondilly Shire Council will provide a Sensory Friendly session on Saturday 18 March from 10.30-12 noon for adults, young people and children living with disability.
  
  During the session there will be no PA announcements, no flashing lights or music on rides and there will be a quiet tent with sensory activities. Food and sideshow games will be available to purchase during the session.
  
  Mayor Matt Gould said, “We want to make sure that the Fes…

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• Establish a recycling program

  Establish a recycling programMost businesses generate "waste" products that should be recycled, if only to prevent harmful chemicals entering our food chain.
  
  We have concentrated, extracted and combined raw natural elements into new and unique elements such as plastics, aluminium, mercury and acids. Recently we have realised that to use these resources efficiently and avoid them spoiling the environment, we need to create closed loops that allow us to move these technical materials fr…

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• Processing and Disposal Contract

  Domestic Waste Services Collection Contract Processing and Disposal Contract Processing and Disposal Contract Domestic Waste Services Collection Contract Processing and Disposal Contract Domestic Waste Processing and Disposal ContractsWe are partnering with the three other councils to make sure we get the best outcome and the best price on behalf of our communities. Waste costs are increasing considerably each year, due to the significant pressures on the waste processing sector…

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• Domestic Waste Services

  Domestic Waste Services Collection Contract Processing and Disposal Contract Domestic Waste Services Domestic Waste Services Collection Contract Processing and Disposal Contract DOMESTIC WASTE SERVICE OverviewOne of every councils core functions is to provide a domestic waste collection and resource recovery service for residents. Councils provide this service differently depending on the priorities for their local communities.Wollondilly Shire Council provides a weekly red-lid a…

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