We assessed whether The Corporation of the City of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters (NPSP Council) and the City of West Torrens (West Torrens Council) have effectively managed kerbside waste services to work towards achieving their targets and the targets set by the State Government for diversion of waste from landfill.
We concluded that both Councils successfully collect, transport and process kerbside waste to a high level of community satisfaction. We found some common areas where neither Council was operating effectively, including that they:
- did not have strategic plans for waste management setting out their objectives, strategies and performance targets
- did not have a formal waste education strategy and program
- did not monitor and report against local waste performance targets.
We also found some areas where both Councils were operating effectively in managing kerbside waste services.
Our detailed conclusions are in section 4.1 for the NPSP Council and section 5.1 for the West Torrens Council of this report.