Residents of the Greater Avalon region can now dispose of their household hazardous waste (HHW) on a regular and convenient basis at the new HHW location at the Robin Hood Bay Regional Waste Management Facility.
Residents can now dispose of their household hazardous waste at the Robin Hood Bay regional waste management facility in St. John's.
About Us
The Eastern Waste Management Committee has been established to oversee the modernization of a solid waste management system for the Eastern region including both residential and commercial users.
"The committee will initiate action to support a single waste management facility, which has been identified as Robin Hood Bay, to serve the Greater Avalon region of the province at a reasonable cost to residents, and which will incorporate programs of household hazardous waste, waste reduction and diversion, composting and recycling," stated the Minister of Municipal Affairs.
The Eastern Waste Management Committee is comprised of 50 per cent representation held by the City of St. John’s, with the remaining 50 per cent held by representatives of municipalities located throughout the region. An independent chairperson has been selected by the established committee to guide implementation of the Eastern regional plan. The committee will work to establish an elected authority under the Regional Service Boards Act for the Eastern Region through an election process. The appointments shall remain in effect for a two-year, renewable term, or until changes are required as a result of its transformation into an elected regional authority.
The Eastern Waste Management Committee is mandated to:
- Carry out consultations with municipal leaders, the industrial, commercial and institutional sectors and other applicable stakeholders on the proposed system and operating parameters in order to develop an awareness and build support for a regional system.
- Assess the feedback from the consultation process and utilize that information in the validation of the findings and approach recommended in the earlier report. In particular, the committee must consider the practicality of incorporating the waste from the major industrial users in the area into a regional waste facility.
- Undertake a community awareness campaign and educate users on the importance of waste diversion and the benefits of programs such as composting.
- Develop a transitional strategy to consolidate existing sites and plan for the ultimate closure of existing sites and integration into a singular facility.
- Undertake a phased consolidation of waste site operations in preparation for the development of the single regional facility.
- Develop a transitional plan to move the committee membership and chairperson from an appointed committee to an elected regional authority.
- Formally establish a Regional Waste Management Authority through an election process.
Structure of the Eastern Waste Management Committee
The Eastern Waste Management Committee is comprised of 16 members and one chairperson which represent a broad mixture of the municipal organizations within the Eastern region. In order to facilitate the work that is required to fulfill its mandate the Committee has adopted a sub-committee structure to divide and allocate the work of the Committee. This structure will allow multiple streams of activities to be directed by the members of the Committee with each sub-committee reporting back to the whole committee on a monthly basis. The four sub-committees that were adopted, the membership and the terms of reference for each sub-committee are below.
Finance and Administration
(B. Bishop, W. Collins, K. Power)
Policy
(G. Mercer, R. Wiseman)
Technical
(J. Dobbie, P. Mackey, K. Power, L. Moriarty)
Communications
(B. Codner, S. Duff, T. Hann)
Sub-Regional Waste Management Committees
Within the Eastern Region a series of sub-regional waste management committees have been established to develop landfill site closure options and interim landfilling options. These sub-regional committees are working with a consultant and the province to develop options. The sub-regions are depicted in the following map.
The Chairperson of the sub-regional management committees are as follows:
Southwest Avalon Waste Management Committee:
Chair: Ed O'Keefe, Town Manager, Town of Placentia
Southern Shore Waste Management Committee:
Chair: Harold Mullowney, Mayor, Town of Bay Bulls
Clarenville & Isthmus Waste Management Committee:
Chair: Bill Bailey, Councillor, Town of Clarenville
Trinity Bay South Waste Management Committee:
Chair: Levi March, Chairperson, LSD of Dildo
Trinity-Conception North Waste Management Committee:
Chair: Herb Arnott, Old Perlican
Trinity Bay Centre Waste Management Committee:
Chair: Joy Dobbie, Chairperson, LSD of Cavendish
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Household Hazardous Waste
Regions
The geographic area of Eastern Waste Management stretches from the Avalon Peninsula to Clarenville including Random Island and communities to Burgoyne’s Cove in the east and to Swift Current to the west.
Provincial Solid Waste Management Strategy
Read the strategy.
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