“At the heart of this complex operation are the people, approximately 100 individuals from the RRIA administration team, resource recovery operators, drivers and the Brisbane Landfill team. These individuals are providing a truly essential service that keeps our city clean, green and healthy.”
“I truly believe the next five years are going to be really exciting and the work rewarding. We’ll be augmenting the systems we have in place to further remove garden organics and food organics while continuing to work on reducing resource losses.”
“At the heart of this complex operation are the people, approximately 100 individuals from the RRIA administration team, resource recovery operators, drivers and the Brisbane Landfill team. These individuals are providing a truly essential service that keeps our city clean, green and healthy.”
“I truly believe the next five years are going to be really exciting and the work rewarding. We’ll be augmenting the systems we have in place to further remove garden organics and food organics while continuing to work on reducing resource losses.”
Cleanaway and Brisbane City Council (BCC) officially launched the Resource Recovery Innovation Alliance (RRIA) in 2018. The alliance is a ten-year partnership for the management of Brisbane’s waste.
Under the alliance Cleanaway provides BCC with post collection and haulage services, operating five facilities – Brisbane Landfill (Rochedale) and four resource recovery centres (Chandler, Ferny Grove, Nudgee and Willawong).
During the 2022 floods this was expanded to 10 facilities in total. This included three temporary resource recovery centres set up specially for ‘Operation Collect’ which cleared 100,000 tonnes of waste during the crisis.
Pictured: Cleanaway trucks delivering flood waste gathered from Operation Collect to Brisbane Landfill.
Pictured: Cleanaway Executive General Manager, Solid Waste Services Tracey Boyes (far left) with the Brisbane Landfill team. From left to right: Operator Duane Campbell, Admin Supervisor Kim Riddles, Supervisor Ewan Brooks, Branch Manager Joel McCumstie, Leading Hand Paul Adams, Supervisor Shaun Gilshenan and Queensland General Manager, Solid Waste Services Aaron Carter.
Pictured: The Chandler Resource Recovery Centre team (from left to right): Operator Rob Gorman, Queensland General Manager, Solid Waste Services Aaron Carter, Supervisor Ewan Brooks, Operator Adam Watt, Health & Safety Business Partner Emily Sime, Queensland Fleet Equipment Manager Matt Baxter, Operator Cliff McRoberts and Resource Recovery new starter Michael Howe.
2023 marks the fifth anniversary of the RRIA. To date the alliance has served the Brisbane community by:
- serving over 5.8 million customers
- transporting over 2.5 million tonnes of general waste
- diverting over 500,000 tonnes of waste from landfill via resource recovery operations.
RRIA Operations Manager Shannon Gorman said, “At the heart of this complex operation are the people, approximately 100 individuals from the RRIA administration team, resource recovery operators, drivers and the Brisbane Landfill team. These individuals are providing a truly essential service that keeps our city clean, green and healthy.”
“I truly believe the next five years are going to be really exciting and the work rewarding. We’ll be augmenting the systems we have in place to further remove garden organics and food organics while continuing to work on reducing resource losses.”
“This is on top of constantly looking for new and emerging markets for recoverable materials.”
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