Senior Geography Project Information
March 2004
The Kimbriki office is happy to post you our newest colour brochure, but we need an address, or you can collect it from the Kimbriki Eco Garden brochure racks on weekends or during office hours from the Kimbriki Administration office or council foyers at Manly, Mosman, Pittwater or Warringah. Kimbriki information appears on our website www.kimbriki.com. The Resource NSW website may be useful as may the EPA website, both now available via
Visit Kimbriki
You are welcome to visit the site by car and to take photos; prior arrangement is necessary. You must contact Kimbriki during office hours (02) 9486 3512 to book a suitable time to visit the site.
The following additional information has been prepared to cover further topics:
The Kimbriki site is owned by Warringah Council and the business is owned by the JSC (Joint Services Committee of Manly, Mosman, Pittwater and Warringah Councils)
Annual estimated tonnage
From our brochure:Stats 2003/2004
170,000 tonnes waste received
Annual estimated tonnage of recycled products sold or distributed
57,000 tonnes of demolition materials crushed into gravels;59,000 tonnes vegetation made into mulches; 5,300 tonnes metal; 2,200 tonnes household ie cardboard, plastic 1+2, glass bottles
Customers to the site
Total transactions for the financial year 2003/04: 250,000
Fees received for waste disposal
About $9 Million is received. This pays for the operation of the site.
Total payroll
Staffing cost about 8%, but a large proportion of operational wages are included in contractors' costs.
Total people employed
7 positions cover management, finance and administration
10 positions cover site operations in 2 shifts.
Do the majority of the workers live locally?
Most live locally, though some commute from outside the area.
Services provided by contractors
6-9 positions across the three contractors onsite - ANL ‘Australian Native Landscapes' operating the mulch making; ‘Concrete Recyclers' crushing concrete and brick; and ‘Powershift' operating site machinery eg the landfill compactor.
Fees received from scavenging contract
There isn't a scavenging contract. Increased sorting by Kimbriki staff over the last calendar year has meant more metal and timber extracted for recycling and the establishment of a Timber Re-use Yard.
Scavenging
From the Kimbriki ‘Conditions of Entry':
The EPA states 'Only the occupier or their employees are permitted to salvage material from the tip face'. Staff may extract selected materials from the site for on-site recycling. To comply with occupational health and safety legislation, Kimbriki staff are not permitted to extract materials on behalf of the public or themselves.
How much household goods are given to charity in a year?
We do not have a weight figure; but we do collect for the Smith Family - the 4 bins are usually full when emptied each week. Also we have a collection point for the Peninsula Senior Citizen's Toy Repair Group - sometimes they collect a trailer load on a Wednesday and again on a Saturday.
Policies and conditions to be followed for the operation of the site
EPA Guidelines for Solid Waste Landfills is available by clicking the link below:
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/solidlandfill.pdf
(this is a detailed 63 page document, please consider reviewing onscreen rather than printing) indicates the conditions that must be followed for pollution and environmental controls on the Kimbriki site.Surface water is tested monthly
Groundwater is tested quarterly
Dust monitoring is conducted monthly from sites surrounding Kimbriki
Vegetation regeneration
As parts of the Kimbriki site will now be static for some years, site-works continue with vegetation regeneration programmes. Steep banks on the site have been covered with coarse mulch and hand-planted with native grasses. There have been some losses due to the drought, but this work will continue.
Water conservation
Stormwater is collected in a freshwater dam at the southern end of the site and used by the site water truck for spraying dirt roads for dust suppression or cleaning sealed roads in muddy conditions.
Leachate, or dirty water, is collected in a separate dam or sedimentation pond on site. Leachate is pumped back through the site or used to irrigate the mulch making process.
Restitution or closure of the site
There had been plans for the restitution of the site to be playing fields or some recreation space; but as we have been able to extend the life of the landfill from it's expected closure of the year 2000, by recycling over one million tonnes since recycling began in 1990 the landfill capacity should last for at least 60 years; and the site is now expected to remain as an important site for recycling for the foreseeable future.
Visitors to the eco-garden in a year
Groups – 80 per annum of which approximately 50 are interest and school groups
Approximately 30 workshops for local residents
Many more casual visitors
The Future
An 'Alternate Waste Facility' may be located at Kimbriki, this should also prolong the life of the tip. Information about AWT in general is in the Background Paper to the Waste Strategy http://www.resource.nsw.gov.au/data/strategy/wright2002.pdf
