Annual Report 2017-18

South Australia’s Waste Strategy 2015-2020 advocates for high levels of recycling and reuse through targets and actions to reduce waste to landfill, and requiring innovative policy and regulatory solutions. It contains the following landfill diversion targets:  70 per cent of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) by 2020  80 per cent of Commercial and Industrial (C&I) waste by 2020  90 per cent of Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste by 2020. In 2017-18, GISA’s programs worked towards implementation of the Waste Strategy, including via grants to the resource recovery sector for new and upgrades infrastructure, incentives for the implementation of food organics recycling systems, helping businesses with resource efficiencies, and completion of a commercialisation program for new technologies and innovations in waste and recycling. South Australia’s Recycling Activity Survey for 2016-17, released in June 2018, shows the following progress against Waste Strategy landfill diversion targets:  59.1 per cent for MSW  85.2 per cent for C&I waste  91 per cent for C&D waste A review of South Australia’s Waste Strategy is currently underway with consideration of emerging issues and new policy directions for the next waste strategy for 2020-2025. New targets and priority actions are under consideration to assist the State’s transition to a more circular economy and to develop and expand South Australia’s resource recovery capacity.