Gosford City Council

Helping Gosford City Council Improve Resource Recovery

WSN is working together with Gosford Council to extend landfill life, increase resource recovery and provide the necessary time to plan the most appropriate technology solution for their community's waste management.

The Challenge
Gosford City Council faced diminishing capacity of both the Kincumber and Woy Woy landfills.

Dry and green wastes were taking up valuable putrescible waste landfill air space. Of greatest concern was the real prospect of the Kincumber landfill closing within eight months, effectively leaving the city of Gosford with one remaining landfill in Woy Woy to meet the needs of an area of over 1,000 square kilometres.

Woy Woy landfill only had five years of landfill space remaining.

How We Helped
Following a successful trial in mid 2004, WSN won a three year contract in March 2005 to manage the Gosford City Council's landfills.

The basis of the contract is to significantly divert waste away from landfill and to increase the amount of resources recovered from the waste stream to help extend the life of the landfills.

WSN provides machinery, equipment, transport services and experienced staff. We work with the council to remove from landfill tonnes of inert waste, garden organics, untreated timber, steel and cardboard.

The Results

• A large portion of the organic and council clean-up waste that previously went to landfill is now recovered, reused or reprocessed into new products such as compost, metal and cardboard.
• We are recovering around 65% of green organics, construction and demolition waste.
• Increasing revenue for the council by selling recovered resources to commodity markets and return S.88 waste levy for all materials not landfilled.
• Increasing Gosford City Council landfill employees' skills for managing resource recovery.
• Extending the life of the Class 1 landfill at Kincumber to an extra three years for putrescible waste
• Extending Woy Woy landfill by at least 14 years
• Establishing two Resource Recovery Centres for the residents of Gosford long after the landfills are closed. This also increases community engagement in resource recovery.
• Provided Council with more time to consider the most appropriate integrated waste management solutions.

• 14 year extension of the Woy Woy landfill.
• 3 year extension of Class 1 landfill at Kincumber.
• Recovery of 65% of organics, construction and demolition waste from landfill.
• New revenue streams through the sale of recovered resources such as compost, metal and cardboard.
• Provided time for Gosford City Council to consider their long-term options for waste management.