1 / 14

Driving Change: Christchurch's Path Towards Effective Waste Management

Explore how the Christchurch City Councils are taking steps to improve waste management, address pollution incidents, and enforce regulations. Learn about existing legislation, the council's actions, and the advantages and challenges of their approach.

mbobbie
Télécharger la présentation

Driving Change: Christchurch's Path Towards Effective Waste Management

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. 21st Annual Conference

  2. Liquid and Hazardous Waste Management in Christchurch

  3. The need for change • Pollution incidents (to water and land) • Consent conditions for treatment plants breached • Poorly performing operators • Good operators disadvantaged Leveling the playing field and forcing change is needed

  4. How the Christchurch City Councils started down this path Existing Legislation • Local Government Act 2002 • Resource Management Act 1991 • HSNO Act 1996 • Land Transport Act 1998 • Dangerous Goods Rule 2007 • Health Act 1957 • Building Act 2004 • Health and Safety Act 1992 …..and others

  5. How the Christchurch City Councils started down this path Questions on regulations, implementation and enforcement What works? What doesn’t? How to get the best system in place

  6. How the Christchurch City Councils started down this path First step • What does the legislation require? • What options are there? • What systems are in place already? • How can we develop partnerships? • Who are the good operators? • Who are the poorly performing operators? • What can be done to improve performance? • What are the costs of change?

  7. How the Christchurch City Council started down this path Second step • Review of the Trade Waste Bylaw • New section included requirement for Code Compliant operators • Requirement to use WasteTrack (started in July 2007) • Approximately 16 operators on board

  8. How the Christchurch City Council started down this path Third step Existing operator driven compliancy programme to work with the council and achieve lasting change • A positive for the city and the industry • Advantages for the Christchurch City Council • Deadline of October 1 2009 set

  9. The drive for Code Compliancy Establishing  internal process at the Christchurch City Council with other councils departments • Management buy-in • Political buy-in • Cross Council understanding • Operations, pollution control, consents teams

  10. The drive for Code Compliancy Working with the contractors to ensure acceptance • Backing good operators • Lead in times • Looking for least cost model • Information • Working with auditors and the certification council

  11. The drive for Code Compliancy How the Christchurch City Council sees it working • Clearly stated council requirements • Independent audit and certification • Poor performers not allowed to operate • Level playing field for good performers

  12. The drive for Code Compliancy Advantages and disadvantages of the process • Costs on already good performers • Extra enforcement required initially • Pressure on Council politicians and staff from poor performers taken out of business • Good environmental outcomes • Lower costs for ratepayers in the long term • Better trade waste plant operation

  13. Where to from here Next steps • Rewarding and supporting good operators • Enforcement for poorly performing operators • Changing public attitudes to bad operators

  14. 21st Annual Conference

More Related