Regional Infrastructure Development Project
The Regional Infrastructure Development Project focuses on identifying opportunities to develop regional recycling infrastructure and more cost-effective integrated recovery processes and services. It involves:
- Developing partnerships to promote resource/energy recovery industries and regional development
- Investigating the economic feasibility and environmental appropriateness of available alternative technologies using waste as a resource for energy production in small remote/regional communities
- Establishing a sustainable mechanism to fund regional infrastructure and improve the capacity to reuse/recycle resources in regional and remote communities; and
- Identifying market opportunities and processes that will facilitate resource recovery in the Territory.
A number of approaches will be investigated by a stakeholder Advisory Group consisting of representatives from relevant agencies, local government, industry associations and recycling service providers.
The project will be managed by the Local Government Association of the Northern Territory (LGANT) and will work with relevant stakeholders to develop ‘Waste Standards Best Practice and Minimum Standards Guide’ for the Northern Territory.
These will be used to develop waste management standards for each shire and audit tools to assist communities to develop their own waste management plans. Two key focus areas will be assisting the establishment of new business units in remote areas and the development of local market opportunities for recovered materials.
