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Earth Month Sustainable Living: City of Victoria Green Plans

The city of victoria’s plans for the future.

When we think about implementing and developing a more sustainable future, we look to our leaders for guidance, help, and resources. In 2018, the City of Victoria developed a Climate Leadership Plan, outlining sustainability goals, targets, and actions for Victoria.

To help make the Plan and all of the fantastic information it contains more accessible, I summarized the Plan, including an introduction and its five main sections: Low-Carbon High-Performance Buildings, Low-Carbon Mobility, Low-Carbon Waste Management, Municipal Operations, and Adapting Early.

Introduction

The City of Victoria starts off by introducing its vision of a “vibrant, healthy, and prosperous community, fueled by renewable low carbon energy systems, and designed and integrated in ways that promote a high quality of life for all Victorians” by 2050.

The Plan discusses where we’re at right now. The main areas contributing to Victoria’s carbon footprint are “the energy used to heat buildings, the fuels that propel vehicles, and what becomes of waste after it is discarded”. In 2017, Victoria emitted 370,000 tonnes of GHGs, 50% of which came from buildings, 40% from transportation, and 10% from waste. Our electricity is relatively clean, however, with nearly all of BC’s power grid supply coming from renewable hydropower. We are already at 40% of our energy being renewable!

It also outlines their goals for what Victoria will look like by the mid-century. The City wants to reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80% and shift from GHG-intensive fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy by 2050. This does not mean that we are starting from scratch. We are moving in the right direction already; we just need to intensify our efforts.

Finally, it lists the ten Climate Leadership Planning Principles that will guide the next steps and inform the process.

• Lead and inspire: The City will be a regional and national leader on climate mitigation and adaption, taking urgent action to drive innovative GHG reductions.
• Harmonize climate action to secure co-benefits: GHG reduction should be integrated into City planning in all areas, including health, safety, affordability, etc.
• Universal accountability: All Victorians have an important role to play in reducing GHGs and should be encouraged to take meaningful action.
• Make energy visible: Data for Victoria’s energy use, GHG performance, and climate impacts should be available and known to help drive effective change.
• Evidence-based decisions: Decisions regarding energy usage and GHG reduction should be socially minded, cost-effective, and supported by science and technology.
• Renewable energy for all: All Victorians, regardless of circumstances, must have easy access to affordable and renewable energy options.
• Dismantle barriers: The City will remove barriers to rapid decarbonization of our energy and support smart energy choices in their policies.
• Climate resilience is developed early: To avoid the most disruptive economic, social, and environmental impacts of climate change, Victoria must take urgent, early, and meaningful action.
• Think globally, change locally, partner regionally
• Track and Adjust: The City will track and report on its progress and targets every year, making adjustments if and when needed.

The “largest, least expensive, most benign, most quickly deployable, least visible, least understood, and most neglected way to provide energy services” is to maximize energy efficiency. That is one of the places that is first on the priority list for the City and where it wants us all to start.

Low-Carbon High-Performance Buildings

Building-related GHGs account for 50% of Victoria’s emissions and mainly come from the combustion of heating oil and natural gas. The City plans to work with government partners and local stakeholders to “develop strategies and actions to make low carbon building retrofits affordable and timely”.

Switching from oil and gas furnaces to air source heat pumps could save up to 50,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. That’s more than 13% of what we need to cut to reach the 2050 targets! A heat pump upgrade can also save between 40% and 75% off homeowners’ annual heating bills.

• All buildings are highly energy efficient
• All buildings are powered by renewable energy
• By 2030, all new buildings are “net-zero energy ready”.
• By 2050, all existing buildings meet new high-efficiency standards
• By 2030, heating oil is phased out.
• By 2050, all buildings exclusively use renewable energy.

Actions Already Being Taken

• Adopt the BC Energy Step Code, creating a road map towards net-zero energy ready buildings by 2030
• Renew the City’s Sustainability Checklist to include Step Code requirements for new buildings, as well as sustainable building design elements that align with City goals
• Design and deliver customized deep energy retrofit programs for rental apartment buildings

Low-Carbon Mobility

Transportation makes up 40% of our GHG emissions, with most of that coming from burning gasoline in our passenger vehicles and diesel fuel in commercial vehicles. The City wants to “make alternatives to gasoline and diesel-fuelled vehicles more compelling” by encouraging the use of renewably powered vehicles, expanding walking and cycling infrastructure, and more!

Their plan is to “reduce the number of vehicles in Victoria, the number of kilometres they are driven, and the frequency of driving alone.”

• All Victorians have access to low carbon, high-performance, and affordable multi-modal transportation
• Vehicles in Victoria are powered by renewable energy
• Smart land-use minimizes transportation emissions
• By 2030, 25% of all trips by Victoria residents are taken by public transportation.
• By 2030, 100% of BC Transit business are renewably powered.
• By 2030, Victoria residents choose walking and cycling for 55% of all trips.
• By 2030, renewable energy powers 30% of passenger vehicles registered in Victoria, and 100% of passenger vehicles are renewably powered by 2050.
• By 2030, 30% of commercial vehicles operating in Victoria are renewably powered.
• By 2030, 100% of Victoria’s neighbourhoods are “complete” by design with substantial transportation system diversity.
• Complete the City’s Sustainable Mobility Strategy (SMS), which will allow the city to develop the management systems, programs, and other tools to optimize and transform the movement of people, goods, and services. As part of the SMS, the City will set specific targets for reducing single-occupancy vehicle use, vehicle kilometres traveled, and vehicle ownership. It will also adopt multi-modal service indicators and identify performance criteria for “complete” neighbourhoods and transportation service diversity
• Invest annually in the design and construction of new walking and cycling infrastructure, including secure bike parking in the downtown core and in village centres.
• Expand EV charging stations in City parkades, recreation centres, community centres, and public spaces.
• Invest in ‘transit-signal priority’ measures to reduce transit wait times in the downtown core.
• Sponsor community-led events, educational programs, and celebrations that encourage the use of low carbon transportation.
• Advocate for energy performance requirements in provincial ride-sharing regulations.
• Expand car share services in the downtown core and village centres.
• Support the expansion of electric buses, including BC Transit and other commercial fleets, through infrastructure and permit programs.

Low-Carbon Waste Management

GHG emissions from waste mostly come from organic materials in our landfill breaking down. This releases methane, which is 25 times more potent than CO2. The organic waste in Hartland Landfill produces the equivalent of 27,000 tonnes of CO 2 , which amounts to about 7% of our community’s emissions.

Kitchen scraps and food waste are still the largest source of waste at our landfill, roughly 21% of it or 75 kilograms per person per year. Other organic materials that generate methane at a slower rate, such as wood, paper, and textiles, make up an additional 38% of Hartland’s intake. “Reducing GHGs from waste will require major reductions in waste disposal.”

The best and smartest way to reduce waste-related GHG emissions is to reduce the amount of waste we generate in the first place.

• Organic materials are managed to avoid GHG emissions (ie: food and yard waste, wood, paper, textiles)
• Eliminate 100% of food and yard waste sent to the landfill by 2030.
• Eliminate 100% of other organic materials sent to the landfill by 2030.
• Capture methane from collected organic waste to provide renewable energy by 2025.
• Continually improve the residential kitchen and yard waste collection and diversion programs, including for multi-family residences.
• Foster behaviour change to reduce food waste through the “Love Food Hate Waste” educational campaign.
• Partner with CRD to deliver a regional, industrial treatment facility for organic waste by 2025.

Municipal Operations

Much like the rest of Victoria, the City’s corporate GHG emissions come from “the combustion of fossil fuels to provide heat and hot water to buildings and to operate the City’s fleet”. They account for about 1% of our total community emissions, which is equivalent to 3,400 tonnes.

The City plans to reduce GHGS by upgrading efficiency in buildings, improving vehicle efficiency and reducing fuel demand, and shifting from fossil-fuel burning equipment to those that run on electricity, renewable natural gas, hydrogen, or advanced biofuels. For instance, in 2016, the City added “three e-bikes, eight hybrid vehicles, and nine electric vehicles to its fleet”. The Victoria Conference Centre now runs on 100% renewable natural gas. The City has replaced 6,700 street lights with energy-efficient LEDs to reduce energy use by 50%, “avoiding an estimated $200,000 in energy costs per year”.

• The City is a recognized leader in climate mitigation and adaptation.
• The City takes integrated and informed climate action.
• The City will provide timely and accurate data supporting strong climate mitigation and adaptation actions.
• By 2040, all City facilities are powered 100% by renewable energy. All new City facilities are renewably powered.
• By 2025, all City power tools and small engine-driven equipment are renewably powered.
• By 2040, 80% of the City fleet is electrified or renewably powered.
• By 2020, capital and operating plans are informed by climate data, carbon pricing, and the City’s GHG reduction targets.
• By 2022, the City has developed a “triple bottom line” accounting system that guides City business planning by assessing and balancing environmental and social risks and financial costs and opportunties.
• By 2022, partner with other local governments and the region to develop a community-accessible Energy and GHG information management System (EGIMS) to define, communicate, and track community energy and GHG reduction across all sectors.
• Establish a two-year staff corporate energy and climate action position using matching funds from an external partner. Join BC Hydro’s Corporate Energy Manager Program.
• Plan for City vehicle electrification systems and networks.
• Implement fleet telematics to identify vehicle and operational energy use patterns to inform decision-making.
• Reduce per-vehicle GHG emissions through fleet operation and maintenance as well as vehicle right-sizing.
• Partner with other municipalities and orders of government to support the development of the full suite of EVs required by municipal fleets.
• Develop the City’s web-based GHG / Energy education, awareness, and information exchange portal to promote information sharing and empower the public to achieve measurable, and trackable, GHG reductions.
• Pilot new technologies in City-owned assets to assess suitability for broad community application.

Adapting Early

In coming years, Victoria will “experience hotter and drier summers, warmer and wetter winters, rising sea levels, and more extreme storms” even if the global community reduces future carbon emissions. It is a matter of the severity of these issues and their effects.

With hotter summers, trees, parks, and gardens will be stressed, which could affect our ability to find and grow local, affordable food. Local flooding would be a more regular occurrence due to more intense rain storms and sea levels rising. Rising sea levels can also cause coastal erosion and ecosystem damage to our beautiful waterfront environment.

By acting early to anticipate climate change and its effects on our homes and the environment, we will avoid disruptive and expensive action later. “Climate change could cost Canada up to $43 billion per year by mid-century”, but that price tag “could be halved through early action”.

• All climate-related risks to City infrastructure are minimized through early and wise planning and action.
• Victoria’s natural environment flourishes in a changing climate.
• All Victorians are empowered and prepared for climate impacts and emergencies.
• Climate resilience is embedded into all City business.
• The City’s infrastructure and services are ready to protect and respond to the risks associated with a changing climate.
• Natural habitats support healthy fish, wildlife, and plant populations and healthy ecosystem function.
• The community is knowledgeable and prepared to address the impacts from a changing climate.
• The City incorporates best practices in risk communication covering all climate hazards.
• Climate resilience enhances the quality of life for all Victorians, especially the most vulnerable.
• Develop the ‘business case for adaptation’ to demonstrate the benefits of taking early action
• Conduct a community-wide climate vulnerability and risk assessment
• Assess how existing City plans incorporate climate risk and identify opportunities to align with ongoing and future City business.
• Seek funding, investment, and partnership opportunities to enhance the speed and quality of adaptation initiatives.
• Minimize flood risks through natural and engineered stormwater infrastructure.
• Continue to integrate climate change impacts in environmental management decisions.
• Increase native plantings on City-owned and -managed land to enhance biodiversity and support ecosystem migration
• Continue to improve public communication methods in advance of extreme weather events.
• Continue to integrate climate risks into emergency preparedness and recovery planning.
• Support projects and programs that increase resilience in populations vulnerable to climate change.

More Information:

For more details on how the City of Victoria plans to inspire and elicit sustainable change, check out the full Climate Leadership Plan document.

Another resource to check, including programs and rebates, is the City of Victoria’s webpage on Sustainability .

We Can Rise to the Challenge!

Meeting BC and Canada’s environmental climate change goals for 2050 will be a challenge. It will mean we need to rethink how we live our lives, research better options, and develop strategies for reusing resources and reducing waste. We will all need to work together, but it is possible and we can do it!

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Strategic Plan 2023-2026

Recycling Victoria's purpose, objectives and vision for a world class circular economy system that helps build a more sustainable future for all Victorians.

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About our strategic plan, our policy environment, our functions, our purpose, our vision and focus areas, our strategic objectives 2023 - 2026, strategic priorities 2023–2026, drivers for success, building our capabilities and systems, charter of engagement and community engagement strategy, regulatory strategy, risk management, annual corporate planning and reporting.

As the recycling industry continues to transform – including by responding to changes in international markets – it is essential that Victoria’s waste and resource recovery sector can deliver services for our current and future needs and maximise the benefits of resource recovery for households and the business community.

Recycling Victoria was established to provide leadership, stewardship, and oversight of waste, recycling, or resource recovery services, and support the development of a circular economy.

Transitioning to a stronger circular economy will encourage innovation, give rise to more sustainability focussed jobs, provide quality goods and services to end users, and enable more consistent and high-quality recycled material for re-manufacturing into new goods that are supplied to the marketplace.

Through our work, we focus on building a world class circular economy system that minimises the impact on non-renewable resources, maximises waste avoidance, and makes a strong contribution towards a more sustainable, environmentally friendly, and climate resilient future for all Victorians.

Our Strategic Plan 2023–2026 (the Plan) defines our purpose, objectives, and vision for a world class circular economy system that helps build a more sustainable future for all Victorians. The Plan, together with our Charter of Engagement, Community Engagement Strategy, and Regulatory Strategy, sets out the pathway to reform Victoria’s waste, recycling, and resource recovery services.

This Plan describes our strategic focus and immediate priorities for the next three years. In preparing this plan, four key considerations have shaped our approach and priorities: • Our policy environment • Our new role as a leader, enabler and regulator • Our engagement approach • Aboriginal self-determination

Our actions contribute to a broader global shift towards more sustainable development based on the United Nations 17 Sustainable development goals and targets. The targets aim, among other things, to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable, ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, and take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Goals 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 are directly related to the work of Recycling Victoria.

Related United Nations Sustainable development goals

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• 4 - Quality education
• 6 - Clean water and sanitation 
• 7 - Affordable and clean energy
• 8 - Decent work and economic growth
• 9 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
• 11 - Sustainable cities and communities
• 12 - Responsible consumption and production
• 13 - Climate action
• 14 - Life below water
• 15 - Life on land
• 16 - Peace, justice and strong institutions 
• 17 - Partnership for the goals
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The Victorian Government has committed to a long-term target of net zero emissions by 2045 and an emissions reduction target of 75 to 80% by 2035.

Achieving these targets is a shared responsibility across all sectors of the economy – Commonwealth, state, and local governments, the goods and services industry, waste, recycling, and resource recovery sector, and the community. By reducing our waste, we also reduce our greenhouse gas emissions footprint and build a circular, more sustainable, and climate resilient economy.

Victoria is projected to add 4.7 million people from 2018 to 2056, reaching a population of 11.2 million. This represents annual average growth of 125,000 people, at a rate of 1.5% per annum. Greater Melbourne is projected to grow by about 4 million people, increasing from 5 million in 2018 to 9 million in 2056. Over the same period, Victoria’s regions are expected to grow by just over 700,000 from 1.5 million to 2.2 million.

Without mitigation, this growth will place greater pressure on our environment including through higher levels of waste generation. Victoria also needs a reliable and robust market to avoid precious materials and embodied energy being lost to landfill.

Our role and establishment as a waste, recycling, and resource recovery services regulator

Victoria’s waste, recycling, and resource recovery services suffered severe market disruptions in 2019. This showed how exposed Victoria’s waste, recycling, and resource recovery system was to changes in global recycling markets and the consequential impact on local recycling service delivery.

In February 2020, the Victorian Government released Recycling Victoria: A new economy, the Victorian Government’s policy and action plan to reform our waste, recycling, and resource recovery system and transition Victoria to a circular economy over the next decade. As part of this policy, Recycling Victoria was created to provide leadership, stewardship, and oversight of waste, recycling, and resource recovery services and to support the development of a circular economy with a range of regulatory and strategic planning functions and tools.

Our engagement approach

Current waste, recycling, and resource recovery system reforms will affect every household in Victoria, as well as each council, Alpine Resorts Victoria, and the broader waste, recycling, and resource recovery services sector. More broadly we will need to see continued and stronger leadership and commitment by all business and industry for more circular use of resources. The input and collaboration of these sectors will be critical to the successful implementation of the Circular Economy (Waste Reduction and Recycling) Act 2021 (CE Act) and policy.

Recycling Victoria has prepared a Charter of Engagement and a more detailed community engagement strategy setting out how it intends to consult and engage with councils and Alpine Resorts Victoria, industry, metropolitan and regional communities, and traditional owners.

Aboriginal self-determination

Traditional Owners are recognised in Victoria as the First Peoples, through a range of legal and policy instruments that support self-determination and their continuing responsibilities to care for Country.

The Victorian Government is working in partnership with Traditional Owners and Aboriginal Victorians to advance a treaty or treaties that will provide a foundation for a new, positive relationship, and enable true self-determination for Victoria’s First Peoples. Recycling Victoria will work with Victoria’s Traditional Owners and ensure our work is founded on the principles of self-determination. In doing so, we will make sure that Traditional Owner cultural knowledge is part of how we deliver our functions.

Under section 16 of the CE Act, the Head, Recycling Victoria must deliver various functions aimed at providing leadership, stewardship, and oversight of waste, recycling, and resource recovery services in Victoria, and to support the development of a circular economy, outlined below.

Support development of a circular economy

• Reduce waste, support recycling, and promote circularity in the use and reuse of products.
• Maximise the continued use of products and waste material over their life cycle.
• Support transition to a net zero and resilient Victoria.
• Identify, monitor, and manage risks and harm associated with waste, recycling, and resource recovery services.
• Provide strategic and infrastructure planning for waste, recycling, and resource recovery services.
• Collect, use, disclose, and publish information and data.

Stewardship

• Oversee and build capacity for municipal residual waste, recycling, and resource recovery service delivery.
• Support best practice procurement management by councils, Alpine Resorts Victoria, and service providers for waste, recycling and resource recovery services.
• Advise on best practices for waste, recycling, and resource recovery services.
• Build and implement regulatory capability and systems for the sector.
• Oversee the Container Deposit Scheme.
• Implement the Waste to Energy Scheme.
• Develop and implement service standards, including standards for household waste and recycling services.

Our purpose is to provide leadership and oversight of waste and resource recovery services to support the circular economy.

A circular economy will maximise the continued use of products and waste material over their life cycle.

Our long-term vision is for a world class circular economy system that helps build a sustainable future for all Victorians. This vision will be built on the foundations of sustainability, leadership, collaboration, and accountability.

Recognising that our purpose is to support the development of a circular economy, to achieve our vision for a world class circular economy system will require partnership and collective effort from state and local governments, waste, recycling, and resource recovery sector, industry, businesses and community.

The realisation of our vision relies on the following long-term focus areas:

Circular economy is contributing to the net zero transition

• The long-term supply of recycled materials aligns with increased demand from downstream markets.
• This leads to 80% of waste from all waste streams being diverted from landfill by 2030 (72% by 2025) and a 50% reduction in organic material going to landfill between 2020 and 2030 (25% reduction by 2025).

Accountable, reliable, and consistent waste and resource recovery services

• Greater capacity to prevent and respond to market disruptions and opportunities leading. to less risk and more stability in service delivery
• Continuous improvement in the performance and quality of services.

Productive use of resources

• Resource recovery rates improve into the future to meet government targets.
• Higher quality material streams are produced from the waste and resource recovery system leading to new markets and business opportunities for recycled materials.

Confidence in a diverse and competitive waste market

• Victorian community, industry, and governments are actively involved in an effective waste market because it has certainty, and transparency and enables investment, innovation, and jobs growth.
• Strategic, streamlined, and consistent approach in the delivery of state-wide waste, recycling, or resource recovery services.

Our strategic objectives align to the Victorian Government’s Recycling Victoria: A new economy policy and action plan to transition Victoria to a circular economy and reform our waste and resource recovery system over the next decade.

Contribute to a strong and robust circular economy

Recycling helps protect our precious natural environment by reducing the use of virgin materials and the amount of waste disposed to landfill. Cleaner, more homogeneous materials with higher commodity value and stronger end markets requires improving the quality of recycled materials we generate, developing new markets, and strong product stewardship. Recycling Victoria will have an early focus on ensuring materials collected from households are high quality and can be used again to make new products to reduce the circularity gap.

Increase resilience of the Victorian waste and resource recovery system

Victoria’s waste needs are growing and becoming more complex. Appropriate regulation and strategic interventions and planning will be needed to improve standardisation and consistency in the delivery of recycling services. This will create pathways to a safe, resilient, and efficient waste and resource recovery system, a key part of transitioning to a circular economy.

Enable sector investment and growth

The recycling sector is an important part of Victoria’s economy, adding value and creating jobs as part of a growing circular economy. Recycling Victoria will work with all levels of government, industry, the community, and research sectors to drive future waste management and resource recovery. This includes encouraging infrastructure investment to support increased recycling capacity, respond to new bans on waste export, and safely manage hazardous waste. Access to strong and diverse end markets is a key component of a resilient and sustainable waste and resource recovery system.

Build system capacity and capability

Victoria is developing a waste and resource recovery system that minimises waste generation and maximises resource recovery. Everyone has a part to play — collaboration between industry, community, and local, state, and national governments is needed to help the sector respond to current and future challenges. Recycling Victoria will support the recycling sector to transition to a more resilient model, which delivers reliable waste, recycling, and resource recovery services and benefits that Victorians expect.

Recycling Victoria commenced in July 2022 as a waste, recycling, and resource recovery services regulator. Its strategic priorities over the course of this inaugural plan reflect the immediate requirement to progress the following key priorities.

Container Deposit Scheme

• Oversee Container Deposit Scheme (CDS), Scheme Coordinator, and Network Operator agreements from mobilisation and ongoing operations.
• Actively regulate the system.
• Deliver key system components, such as to determine first suppliers and eligible containers; and build and maintain a supplier and container registration system.
• Develop and issue required guidelines and protocols.

Market risk and contingency plans

• Identify, monitor, and mitigate serious system risks associated with waste, recycling, and resource recovery services.
• Prepare Circular Economy Risk, Consequence, and Contingency Plan (CERCC Plan) and framework for Responsible Entity Risk, Consequence, and Contingency Plans (RERCC Plans) for sector participants.

Market intelligence

• Provide regular, timely, and quality market data and insights to identify the key investment, gaps, issues, and opportunities.
• Provide strategic market information for greater market transparency and confidence for future investment, with a view to enabling stronger circular economy opportunities and interventions.

Engagement and consultative committees

• We will engage local government and Alpine Resorts, industry, and place-based stakeholders, and we will use consultative committees to advise the Minister and Head, Recycling Victoria of priorities and issues

Infrastructure planning

• Identify longer term (30 year) infrastructure needs and projections to provide a more certain investment environment for sector resilience and growth

Service standards

• Development, implementation, and monitoring compliance with service standards for household waste, recycling, and resource recovery services

Waste to Energy Scheme

• Invite, assess, and determine licence applications from existing thermal waste to energy operators.
• Administer the expression of interest and full application processes for thermal waste to energy licences under the cap.

Strategic procurement

• Support local government towards best practice strategic procurement, which will support the delivery of reliable and consistent waste, recycling, and resource recovery service experiences and best value for money for the Victorian community

Recognising our operating context, we’ve articulated our approach for the next three years to set us on the path to the objectives we want to see met. We will:

• work to understand and respond to current and emerging issues through market intelligence
• assess and manage the greatest risk of market disruption and failure and drive continuous improvement
• be practical and solution focused to ensure we have the right approach for each circumstance
• work with councils, Alpine Resorts Victoria, industry, and businesses to ensure they provide reliable and effective waste and resource recovery services for Victorians
• build effective partnerships that amplify our oversight, knowledge, reach, and presence
• respect the knowledge and cultural values of Traditional Owners.

To meet our purpose and deliver for Victorians over the next three years, we will be driven by:

Leadership and strategy

• Be clear about our role in the circular economy and our relationship with our strategic partners.
• Be accountable for our actions, engagement, and behaviour.
• Adopt principles and practices for modern, outcome focused regulation
• Lead for all Victorians recognising the unique needs of regional Victoria.

Collaborative partnerships

• Leverage existing relationships with councils and Alpine Resorts Victoria.
• Join other regulators and circular economy leaders in a strategic and coordinated approach to market oversight and development.

People and culture

• Build high performing and collaborative teams.
• Create a positive, safe, and enjoyable place to work.
• Listen and learn and be committed to continuous improvement.

Information and knowledge

• Collect data and use intelligence to best inform our decisions and actions.

Business innovation and investment

• Provide planning and market strategies that build certainty and confidence to invest and innovate in our waste, recycling, and resource recovery system across the state.

Communications and engagement

• Engage early, often, and respectfully with those impacted by our decisions, seeking to understand their aspirations and concerns, and their ideas and approaches.
• Listen and be responsive to the needs of regional Victorians.

Influencing for positive circular economy outcomes

Recycling Victoria strives to deliver a more reliable waste and resource recovery system for Victoria. In doing so, our work supports Victoria’s transition to a circular economy. We will identify opportunities to build and influence the broader network of government, industry, business, and community working on the circular economy.

Regulatory approach and system

We will be building our capability to deliver the Regulatory Strategy over these three years, as we develop and implement the functions and actions in our priority areas.

Data and intelligence driven

Our decisions and actions will be informed by market data and intelligence. We are building a high-quality waste data management system for our investment in market research, risk management, and strategic planning.

Developing our people

Recycling Victoria has a whole of waste, recycling, and resource recovery system strategic oversight purpose and this requires aligning staff capability with the new functions of Recycling Victoria.

Our staff are committed to being service oriented, having a learning mindset, and being responsive and adaptive.

Our Charter of Engagement and Community Engagement Strategy set out our commitment to work with regional and metropolitan stakeholders and communities, businesses, industry, Traditional Owners, local councils, and Alpine Resorts Victoria in decisions that affect them and on issues that matters to them.

Our Regulatory Strategy outlines how we will achieve our objectives and priorities, in line with our regulatory principles and approach. It outlines how we support, promote, and monitor compliance with, and enforce, requirements under the CE Act.

Recycling Victoria has responsibility to identify, monitor, manage, and mitigate risks and harm associated with waste, recycling, and or resource recovery services. Over the course of this plan, we will:

• expand data and intelligence to help detect market risks
• implement risk-based methodology for decisions on risk controls
• build capacity to respond to high risk or unforeseen issues that may arise
• ensure responsible entities acquit their responsibility for risk management under a Responsibility Entity Risk Contingency and Consequence framework
• provide support with meeting compliance requirements and enforce compliance where required.

This Strategic Plan is a statutory requirement under the CE Act. The plan provides Recycling Victoria’s objectives over the next three years and incorporates an aligned Regulatory Strategy and Community Engagement Strategy. It will be further developed and expanded annually as Recycling Victoria and the waste and resource recovery markets evolve.

The Strategic Plan is implemented via an annual business plan which provides the actions and strategies to achieve the objectives. Each financial year, we will report on our performance in our Annual Report, which is tabled in the Victorian Parliament and published on our website.

Updated 24 October 2023

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