Research
EnviroCom Australia undertakes research and technical data collection for a wide range of government and private sector clients. Methodologies are developed specifically for each project to reflect the client’s needs.
Research collection projects include:
- Corporate sustainability auditing (water, energy, waste)
- Domestic mobile garbage bin audits (garbage, recycling and organic)
- Landfill and transfer station audits
- Landfill assessments
- Site specific audits
- Materials recovery facility waste stream audits
- Commercial and industrial waste assessments
- Community waste assessments
- Community attitude and knowledge surveys
- Inspection programs
- Desktop research
- Compliance and legislative auditing
- Behavioural observations
- Waste Management Plans and Strategies
- Education program evaluation and review
CASE STUDY
Public Place Recycling Composition Audit
- Client:
- Sunshine Coast Council
- Keywords:
- Public Place Recycling, Waste Stream Assessment
In December 2011, EnviroCom undertook an assessment of the composition of the Public Place Recycling (PPR) stream generated through identified waste diversion points in public areas on the Sunshine Coast. The audit determined by mass, the composition of materials to the Australian Waste Database Categories and reported the composition, generation rate, contamination rate and other observed factors that influenced the effectiveness of the public area resource recovery program.
The written report provided location maps for all bins collected and examined differences in the data between locations, regions and the local environment (street bin versus park bin).