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Springmount Waste Management Facility
Springmount Waste Management Facility, located at Mareeba on the Atherton Tablelands, is a regional general waste landfill operating under a joint venture between REMONDIS and fgf Developments
Address
Arriga QLD 4880
Access
Opening hours:
Mon-Fri: 06:30 - 16:00
Commercial customers only
Contact number
Office & Enquiries
T +61 7 4093-3964
HSEQ
Incidents & Environmental Complaints
T 1300 110-638
Email
Springmount Waste Management Facility is a fully-licensed, fully-engineered, triple-lined landfill capable of receiving construction and demolition waste, commercial, industrial and municipal waste, asbestos and regulated waste. Springmount also is a Quarantine Approved Premise.
Located at Mareeba on the Atherton Tablelands inland from Cairns, Springmount Waste Management Facility is a regional general waste landfill operating under a joint venture between REMONDIS and fgf Developments. Facilities located here include:
Landfill
Quarantine Approved Premise
Methane gas flare
Administration
Local recycling education
Cairns Regional Council's waste education program, Know Before You Throw, is designed to minimise contamination in recycling bins, and reduce recycleables going to landfill unecessarily. Want to know what goes into each bin? Want to know what can (and can't) be recycled? Visit knowbeforeyouthrow online.
Council's handy RecycleMate resource is available online 24/7. Visit RecycleMate online, or download the app.
FAQs
Council is committed to increasing the level of recycling within the shire, reducing the amount of waste going to landfill, ensuring responsible management of waste and limiting the cost of waste management.
The recyclables that are collected at the Mareeba Shire Waste transfer stations are transported to the Cairns material recovery facility where they are sorted for processing in secondary markets. The only exception to this is glass, which Cairns Regional Council has taken the decision to process and reuse this waste locally.
Mareeba Shire Council's non-recyclable kerbside waste is transported to Springmount Waste Management Facility (managed by REMONDIS on joint venture with fgf Developments) for disposal.
This landfill is licensed and fully engineered with dedicated environmental control measures such as a liner and a leachate collection system. Environmental monitoring is undertaken by:
- Composting your food scraps. Compost is a wonderful garden resource
- Consider a garage sale or donating your good quality items such as glasses, toys, books, sporting equipment and tools to organisations
- Before you throw it out, have you thought about reusing, retailing, upcycling and selling your unwanted items?
- Still in good condition? You could try selling it. Try a garage sale, an internet service like Gumtree or "Buy, Swap, Sell" pages on Facebook.
Mareeba Shire Council takes pride in achieving environmental compliance as demonstrated by the new Wastewater Treatment Plant and environmental closure works for the Mareeba Landfill.
Minimise the waste that is disposed into landfill by:
- Composting your food scraps. Compost is a wonderful garden resource.
- Consider a garage sale or donating your good quality items such as glasses, toys, books, sporting equipment and tools to organisations.
- Before you throw it out, have you thought about reusing, retailing, upcycling and selling your unwanted items?
- Still in good condition? You could try selling it. Try a garage sale, an internet service like Gumtree or "Buy, Swap, Sell" pages on Facebook.
- Plastics such as sauce bottles, shampoo and conditioner containers, cooking oil bottles, ice cream containers, water bottles, detergent bottles, cleaning product containers, juice bottles, buckets, pots, yoghurt containers, soft drink bottles, CD jacket covers, milk bottles. To ensure your recyclables get recycled and don't end up in landfill, ensure that these items are not bagged. All items should be clean, rinsed out, dry with lids removed.
- Glass such as glass jars and bottles, medicine bottles.
- Steel and Aluminium such as food containers, aerosol containers, steel food tins, biscuit containers, drink cans.
- Cardboard and bulk paper.
Containers for Change Bag Drops in Kuranda, Mareeba and Dimbulah
- Early morning drop-off locations: At the recycling station at the end of Ayara Street, Kuranda and end of the carpark at the Mareeba Heritage Museum and Information Centre, Mareeba.
- Early evening drop-offs: At the carpark opposite Junction Hotel, Raleigh Street, Dimbulah.
- Keep containers in sturdy bags or boxes to ensure the containers stay together.
- Tag it: Write your member number and name on any label and tag the bag.
- Drop it: Leave your containers at the bag drop.
Council has recycling stations at Mareeba, Kuranda, Jaáten, Dimbulah, Mutchilba, Chillagoe, Mt Molloy, Mt Carbine and Mt Isa. Transfer Stations.
You can take your recyclables to these recycling stations at no charge.
Mareeba Buy Back Shop
- Grab a bargain at the Mareeba Buy Back Shop or donate good quality items to give them a second life instead of going to landfill.
- Open Saturday, 10am – 1pm at the Mareeba Transfer Station.
- Items can be delivered during the Mareeba Transfer Station opening hours, every day of the week.
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