Overview
- In a public consultation on Thursday the GBA announced a reorganisation into 33 collection packages, new tenders for 2–3 tonne vehicles targeting about 4,500 trucks and a transport capacity of roughly 9,000 tonnes per day, and a mandate for GPS tracking on all collection vehicles.
- The move responds to a persistent shortfall: the city generates about 6,500 tonnes of waste daily while existing collection capacity is roughly 5,200 tonnes, leaving a gap that the new vehicle fleet aims to close.
- Officials flagged large-scale noncompliance by bulk waste generators as a key pressure point, noting about 50,000 generators exist but only about 2,000 have authorised vendor arrangements and that unregulated bulk waste adds about 1,000 tonnes a day to household collection.
- GBA reported operational gains including roughly 2,100 tonnes a day of segregated wet waste sent to processors, landfill deliveries falling to about 2,500 tonnes a day, and the clearance of large volumes of legacy construction waste, but rollout faces hurdles from slow contractor uptake and legal challenges to some packages.
- The authority will pilot the reforms over the next three to four months and then reconvene to review results, with success depending on timely procurement and vehicle deployment, enforcement of generator rules, and sustained citizen cooperation on source segregation.