Tamworth Regional Council manages and operates 11 waste management facilities including Duri Landfill. Current operations at Duri allow for on-site burial of domestic waste and partial infrastructure for collection of resource recoverable items, such as e-waste, batteries, gas bottles, motor oil, mixed recyclables, green waste and scrap metal.

Council secured a $198,000 Landfill Consolidation and Environment Improvement Grant from the NSW Environmental Trust towards the cost of upgrading Duri Landfill to a Small Vehicle Transfer Station.

This project was supported by the Environmental Trust as part of the NSW Environment Protection Authority’s Waste Less, Recycle More initiative, funded from the waste levy.

The upgrade will bring the Duri Landfill in line with the industry’s current best practice.

When completed, the Small Vehicle Transfer Station will allow residents to dispose of household waste into skip bins rather than through direct access to an open landfill cell.

It will also ensure Council is able to continue to provide waste disposal services to the Duri and surrounding rural community into the future, while also improving safety for staff and the community, reducing environmental impacts, increasing opportunities for recycling and resource recovery and improving site aesthetics.

Construction of the Small Vehicle Transfer Station started in January 2019 and is expected to be completed before the end of July 2019.

The site’s opening hours will not be affected.