Overview

Wagga Wagga City Council is developing a Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy to establish a comprehensive and sustainable framework for driving change across Wagga Wagga and surrounds.

The aim of the strategy is the reduction of waste generation, promotion of resource efficiency, increase in recycling, extension of product lifecycles and the building of behavioural change and partnerships to support this.

    Community Consultation

    In July/August 2025, Wagga Wagga City Council conducted surveys for all residents in the LGA, and two surveys relating to the villages, inviting all residents to partake.

    The data is now being collated and the strategy is in development.


    What is a Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy?

    A Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy is the first step towards transitioning our region into a circular economy

    A circular economy is a more efficient and productive use of resources by sharing, reusing or repairing products, designing out materials that end up in landfill or as litter, and recycling materials.

    This is opposed to a linear economy in which products are designed for limited use, which are purchased and used for a limited time and then disposed of, effectively going straight to landfill.

    A Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy will identify ways in which Council and the community can incorporate more resource recovery into waste management.

    A diagram of a linear economy on the left, a diagram of a circular economy on the right.