At their April meeting the council adopted the the Waste Action Plan as a supplementary plan to the Waste Management Strategy which was adopted by Council in September 2020.

Northern Grampians Shire Council Mayor Murray Emerson said local governments were constantly working with the State Government to find the best solution.

"There is no timeline on it, the waste problems we have change pretty well daily," he said.

"The State Government are working on some plans as to what it should look like and we are considering a few different things as well like an extra bin that might take glass and things like that.

"But at the moment there are a lot of ideas but no solutions just yet."

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Cr Emerson said different solutions have been discussed to try and tackle one of Australia's "biggest problems".

"It is a big project and we have people working on it all the time along with the state government, but we are still yet to come up with a fool-proof idea," he said.

"Green waste opportunities have been discussed around the council table and we have had a bit of a trial run last year to see the up take and we are still trying to work out what is the best result for everybody.

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"Because it changes so frequently, we are battling to come up with a good option for all of the waste.

"There is day to day changes happening in the waste area and it is probably one of if not Victoria and Australia's biggest problems in getting rid of our waste."

In September 2020 the council adopted the Waste Management Strategy and also included a two-week green waste trial.

The Waste Action Plan is designed to set out how the strategy's objectives will be achieved and the timeframe to achieve each objective.

The plan will provide an estimation on the capital and infrastructure spend for waste management for the next ten years.

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The Waste Management Strategy was adopted by Council in September 2020 which set the objectives for waste management for the next ten years.

The four objectives are to improve resource recovery, community-focused waste management systems, adaptive infrastructure and operations and sustainable strategic planning.

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The council said the priority of the Waste Action Plan is the new services mandated by the Recycling Reform and will be the largest spend both in capital and operational, over the next ten years with FOGO and glass services.

An allocation of $200,000 in the 2021-22 budget will allow further research and expand on the knowledge obtained from the proposed organic feasibility study.

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