21 September 2021
LGOIMA No. 8140009165
(Please quote this in any correspondence)
William Foster
By Email:
[FYI request #14913 email]
Dear William
Local Government Official Information And Meetings Act 1987
Residual waste disposal to landfil
I refer to your request which we received on 24 August 2021, regarding residual waste
disposal to landfil .
In response to your request, I consulted with the council’s Waste Solutions department to
provide relevant information. Our response to your questions is as fol ows:
Please advise how much AC has spent annually for disposal of residual waste-to-
landfill annually since 2014 at Redvale and at other landfills separately
I refer to my email to you on 1 September 2021, seeking clarification of the type of council
waste disposal service that you are referring to in this question. i.e., to council refuse,
inorganic, il egal dumping and refuse transfer station waste. You replied on 1 September and
5 September and confirmed as below:
“I would be pleased to receive the annual costs for AC's disposal of all kinds of waste to
landfil at each of the different landfil s used, as per my request. If this is further separated
out by categories of waste, as you indicate, because the data is collected this way, that
would be helpful.
My original request is for the annual costs (what AC pays to the operator, either directly or
through contractors used to transport waste to landfil ) since 2014 for disposal of any and all
types of waste at each of the landfil s it uses (used). I was requesting the costs of actually
using/accessing the landfil for disposal, not including the col ection or other processing or
transport costs of getting waste to the landfil , although e.g. (hypothetical since I don't know)
if AC has contracts for transport and disposal which do not separate out the landfil use cost
component I would not expect those to be separated out but just explained.
If the information is disaggregated or held separately by the type of waste service which
disposes of waste at a landfil i.e. to Council Refuse, Inorganic, Illegal Dumping and Refuse
Transfer Station waste, that would be helpful thank you.”
Please see Table 1 for how much Auckland Council has spent annually on disposal of waste
in total to Redvale, Whitford and Hampton Downs landfil s for the last six financial years. The
amounts are based on all purchase order expenditure during the period for suppliers Waste
Management (Redvale Landfil operator), Envirowaste (Hampton Downs Landfil ) & Waste
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Disposal Services (Whitford Landfil ). This includes expenditure on waste disposed at
transfer stations operated by the supplier.
Table 1:
2015/2016
2016/2017
2017/2018
Redvale & Waste Management
Transfer Stations
$8,557,091
$8,485,991
$8,541,057
Whitford Landfil
$6,009,203
$7,046,267
$6,245,152
Envirowaste Landfil & Transfer
Station
$414,341
$859,936
$924,191
Total disposal costs Waste
Solutions department
$14,980,635
$16,392,195
$15,710,399
2018/2019
2019/2020
2020/2021
Redvale & Waste Management
Transfer Stations
$9,071,857
$8,698,847
$7,804,922
Whitford Landfil
$6,761,731
$6,839,894
$10,641,920
Envirowaste Landfil & Transfer
Station
$959,037
$820,819
$851,763
Total disposal costs Waste
Solutions department
$16,792,624
$16,359,561
$19,298,605
The 2013/2014 & 2014/2015 financial years are provided as a total disposal cost in Table 2,
as a different method of financial reporting was used which did not collect this data
separately for each landfil .
Table 2:
2013/2014 2014/2015
Total disposal costs Waste Solutions department
15,484,501 15,042,674
The numbers are only for the Waste Solutions department in council. There could be other
departments in council that use landfil s, however the Waste Solutions department has the
bulk of disposals. Numbers do not include Great Barrier Island Claris landfil .
Please advise AC’s policy for awarding contracts for residual waste disposal to
landfill, including criteria for selection; and whether the contract includes transport to
landfill or if that is a separate contract or contracts.
The previous procurement of landfil disposal contracts were based on the following
weighted attributes:
• Relevant Experience 5%
• Resources 10%
• Methodology 7.5%
• Sustainability 2.5%
• Management and technical skil 5%
• Price 70%
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As the current landfil disposal contracts do not expire until 2024, the procurement plan for
the next contracts have not been written.
It is anticipated that the transportation to landfil wil be a separate contract to the disposal
contract(s).
Decisions about this response to your request were made by
Parul Sood, General Manager
Waste Solutions.
Should you believe Auckland Council has not responded appropriately to your request you
have the right to seek a review of the decision from the Ombudsman.
If you have any further queries please contact me on 09 301 0101, quoting LGOIMA No.
8140009165.
Yours sincerely
Jenny Hua
Senior Privacy & Official Information Business Partner
Governance Services
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