Shaping the Future of Waste Management


Draft Strategy Now on Public Exhibition

Council has developed a new draft Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy 2025-2030 – providing a long-term strategic vision for Council's waste services and management practices – and we are inviting your feedback.

Community input has helped us to shape the direction of the Strategy and identify actions for the next 5 years. Extensive community engagement was undertaken in 2021 and 2024, through a range of methods, to understand current sentiment and priorities in relation to waste services, waste facilities, waste reduction and what the community would like to see Council prioritise in this Strategy.

Results from this engagement were used to shape this draft and determine primary objectives.

The draft Strategy proposes five key objectives:

1. Planning for the Future

Ensure residents are adequately and equitably serviced both now and into the future by increasing our waste service availability, whilst safeguarding the financial sustainability of services provided. We will also develop data capture systems to establish baseline performance and monitor ongoing service performance.

2. Reduction and Reuse of Waste Materials

Support locally based repair and refurbishment capabilities and investigate means to divert as much material as possible from landfill while maintaining a level of circularity with minimal material loss.

3. Recover Resources and Materials Where Possible

Develop and promote a local identity prioritising the recovery of materials that are not able to be reused, repaired or refurbished. We will promote additional education materials to ensure that residents are informed on best practice resource recovery, and we will lobby for legislative change for designers and manufacturers to further prioritise the recovery of materials.

4. Protecting the Environment

Provide waste services that limit the impact of waste on the natural and built environment and work to minimise any local waste-based contamination and pollution while pursuing actions that minimise the region's contribution to climate change.

5. Strategic Collaboration

Develop a locally and regionally consistent approach to waste management via close collaboration with internal council groups and adjacent councils.

View Documents

  • Under the Draft Strategy tab (if on a phone, you can scroll below the feedback form to see more information)
  • Council’s Customer Service Centre - Menangle Street, Picton
  • Wollondilly Library - Menangle Street, Picton, plus the Mobile Library - which visits 14 towns and villages across the Shire
  • Dilly Wanderer outreach service - which visits 15 towns and villages across the Shire

Give Feedback

  • Using the feedback form below
  • Email council@wollondilly.nsw.gov.au quoting reference CM 15493
  • Send written feedback to Wollondilly Shire Council, PO Box 21, Picton NSW 2571
  • Drop off written feedback to Wollondilly Shire Council Customer Service Centre, 62 Menangle Street, Picton


For more information please call our Waste Services Team at 4677 1100.

Consultation closes Wednesday 2 July 2025.

For all bin enquiries, to report a missed service or broken bin, or for clean-up enquiries, please contact Council's Waste Hotline on 1800 805 305 or email wollondillywaste@jrrichards.com.au



Draft Strategy Now on Public Exhibition

Council has developed a new draft Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy 2025-2030 – providing a long-term strategic vision for Council's waste services and management practices – and we are inviting your feedback.

Community input has helped us to shape the direction of the Strategy and identify actions for the next 5 years. Extensive community engagement was undertaken in 2021 and 2024, through a range of methods, to understand current sentiment and priorities in relation to waste services, waste facilities, waste reduction and what the community would like to see Council prioritise in this Strategy.

Results from this engagement were used to shape this draft and determine primary objectives.

The draft Strategy proposes five key objectives:

1. Planning for the Future

Ensure residents are adequately and equitably serviced both now and into the future by increasing our waste service availability, whilst safeguarding the financial sustainability of services provided. We will also develop data capture systems to establish baseline performance and monitor ongoing service performance.

2. Reduction and Reuse of Waste Materials

Support locally based repair and refurbishment capabilities and investigate means to divert as much material as possible from landfill while maintaining a level of circularity with minimal material loss.

3. Recover Resources and Materials Where Possible

Develop and promote a local identity prioritising the recovery of materials that are not able to be reused, repaired or refurbished. We will promote additional education materials to ensure that residents are informed on best practice resource recovery, and we will lobby for legislative change for designers and manufacturers to further prioritise the recovery of materials.

4. Protecting the Environment

Provide waste services that limit the impact of waste on the natural and built environment and work to minimise any local waste-based contamination and pollution while pursuing actions that minimise the region's contribution to climate change.

5. Strategic Collaboration

Develop a locally and regionally consistent approach to waste management via close collaboration with internal council groups and adjacent councils.

View Documents

  • Under the Draft Strategy tab (if on a phone, you can scroll below the feedback form to see more information)
  • Council’s Customer Service Centre - Menangle Street, Picton
  • Wollondilly Library - Menangle Street, Picton, plus the Mobile Library - which visits 14 towns and villages across the Shire
  • Dilly Wanderer outreach service - which visits 15 towns and villages across the Shire

Give Feedback

  • Using the feedback form below
  • Email council@wollondilly.nsw.gov.au quoting reference CM 15493
  • Send written feedback to Wollondilly Shire Council, PO Box 21, Picton NSW 2571
  • Drop off written feedback to Wollondilly Shire Council Customer Service Centre, 62 Menangle Street, Picton


For more information please call our Waste Services Team at 4677 1100.

Consultation closes Wednesday 2 July 2025.

For all bin enquiries, to report a missed service or broken bin, or for clean-up enquiries, please contact Council's Waste Hotline on 1800 805 305 or email wollondillywaste@jrrichards.com.au


  • Waste Management & Resource Recovery Strategy 2025-2030

    Some helpful information on submitting your feedback:

    • Please read the draft Strategy.

    • Identify the aspects of the Strategy you'd like to comment on.

    • Consider: Do you support the updated Strategy? Has anything been left out? How well does it address the subject? Etc.

    • Submit your feedback: You can write as much or little as you like, but please be clear, and ensure it relates to this Strategy.
      Either write your submission separately and upload it as a Word file or PDF, or, type your feedback into the textbox provided. Your thoughtful comments are appreciated.


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