EWaste

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E-Waste
Bill ORegan, Manager Waste Recycling
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E-Waste

• The City of Onkaparinga carried out the first
  Council provided e-waste collection in South
  Australia in June 2006.
• The collection was an outstanding success and
  community feedback was extremely positive.

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Background

• Why did we provide the service?
• steady number of resident queries
• noticeable increase of e-waste items in illegal
  dumping material also e-waste appearing in hard
  waste collections and MGBs
• To provide responsible leadership and continue
  with Councils policies on reducing environmental
  harm.

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When

• June 2006 was chosen in support of World
  Environment Day.

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Operations

• based on interstate experience we decided on a
  skip system where residents would bring along
  their e-waste and deposit it into the skips
• e-cycle recoveries were engaged to provide the
  skips and to remove the material for recycling
• objective to divert and recycle a projected
  10-12 tonne of electronic waste from landfill.

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Safe Work Procedure
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Safe Work Procedure contd
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Promotion

• extensive 63,000 flyers were delivered to
  households one week prior to the event. Adverts
  and messages placed in the Advertiser, Messenger
  Press and five local publications as well as
  radio and TV.

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Did This Work - Collection

• both collection days were an outstanding success
  we filled 3 x 20 m skips at the Central Depot and
  2 x 30 m 1 x 15 m at the Northern Depot
• amounted to a total of 2909 individual e-waste
  items this was weighed in at a staggering 28.3
  tonnes (double estimation).

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Seaford Meadows Collection The bin full with
numerous items on the ground
Seaford Meadows Collection The area across the
road they had to open up.
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Cost - 44,500

• when you consider the high level of promotion,
  the population of the City of Onkaparinga is
  around 155,000 people and being the first
  collection we believe that we cleared up a lot of
  backlog and would expect much less next time
  around 97 of material recycled
• the environmental savings in the prevention of
  improper disposal far out weigh monetary costs
• e-cycle recovery provided much valued support in
  the overall exercise including the promotion,
  collection / processing and project completion
  reports.

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Lessons

• high Level of promotion of a free service
• high take up rate
• staffing - another staff member to assist with
  breaks
• skips - ensure ample room for loading
• - have a back up skip on standby.

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Future

• The City of Onkaparinga is examining some options
  to co-ordinate another e-waste collection this
  financial year. One of these involves a shared
  cost basis where users pay a portion of the cost.

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