The Northern Tasmanian Waste Management Group was formed in 2008, with the Northern Tasmanian Regional Waste Strategy ratified in early 2009 by the Northern Regions Councils participating in the voluntary waste levy.

The objectives of the Northern Tasmanian Regional Waste Management Group are to deliver improvements in waste reduction and resource recovery, regional cooperation and coordination, waste management policy and service delivery and community education and marketing.

The Strategy goals include:

• Long term management of putrescible and organic waste
• Provide education and feedback to the Community
• Reduce Construction and Demolition (C&D) / Commercial and Industrial (C&I) waste to landfill
• Exploit funding opportunities at Federal and State levels

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To increase the awareness
of what can and can not
be placed into the recycling
bin, assessments of the
contents of individual
bins will occur
throughout the region...

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