The Waste Strategy 2025-2045 has been prepared to to guide Council's waste and resource management over the next 20 years. The strategy aims to maximise landfill diversion and resource recovery.

The Waste Strategy aims to:

  • provide an overview of the existing waste management practices and services offered
  • gauge community views on current and potential waste management options
  • identify options for waste management and resource recovery across the whole LGA, while considering population growth, adequacy and longevity of existing waste infrastructure, urban encroachment and recognition of rural/remote service considerations
  • develop key actions to help Council implement the Waste Strategy over a 20-year timeframe
  • provide consistency with and the ability to meet the objective and ambitions of the NSW Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy 2041 and the Canberra Region Joint Organisation (CRJO) Regional Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy and Action Plan 2022-27 (CRJO Strategy), and Roadmap
  • meet the objective of a sustainable, “clean green” community outlined in the QPRC 2017 Strategic Directions paper

Have your say

The draft Waste Strategy is open for community comment from Monday 4 August to Monday 15 September 2025. The draft strategy may be viewed:

  1. In the electronic Document Library on this page
  2. At Council’s Customer Service Centres, between 9am and 4pm Monday to Friday

Feedback can be provided on the draft strategy by:

  1. Completing an online submission form (below)
  2. Emailing it directly to council@qprc.nsw.gov.au with the subject title Waste Strategy
  3. Hand-writing your submission and delivering it to Council's Customer Service Centres
  4. Posting your submission to PO Box 90, Queanbeyan NSW 2620
Only written submissions will be considered and these must be received by Council before Monday 15 September 2025. Please note that any submissions received may be included in the final report to Council.