LOGAN council has joined four other south-east Queensland councils to explore new waste management options for the future.
The Ipswich, Redlands, Lockyer Valley and Somerset region councils submitted a joint proposal to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission seeking expressions of interest proposals for the future of waste disposal and resource recovery services.
Invitations for expressions of interest will seek proposals for integrated cross-region services for all councils .
It is expected that expressions of interest will be advertised by the end of March.
Acting Logan Mayor Cherie Dalley said some existing forms of waste management, such as landfill, might not be sustainable in the long term.
“By exploring a combined regional waste management solution, council and its partners will be in a position to consider new and different solutions to waste management,” she said.
“For the waste management industry this is an opportunity to respond with traditional or innovative proposals for technologies and infrastructure that will boost resource recovery and renewal.”
Documentation relating to the joint application will be published on the ACCC’s Authorisations Register.
