Our Services
We have a proud history of delivering on a wide range of projects for our clients. Our multidisciplinary team and expertise enable us to offer a wide range of services, ready to meet the needs of every project, organisation, and location.
Waste service tenders and contracts
Each year, local councils procure waste contracts valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. For most, it is the largest single contract they manage. Due to the typical ten-year procurement cycle – bringing challenges of staff turnover, institutional knowledge atrophy and lack of urgency – it can also be the most cumbersome, costly, time consuming, and risky.
Impact helps dozens of councils each year to de-risk the crucial task of waste services procurement. We have extensive experience in the development, assessment, and oversight of local government waste collection and processing contracts, working in partnership with our clients to ensure services respond effectively and efficiently to the needs of local communities.
Grant writing and delivery
The NSW Government is investing millions into waste and recycling initiatives. Applying for grants can be labour-intensive and timeframes are often short, making it difficult for councils to identify and respond to current opportunities alongside already busy work schedules.
Impact has decades of experience and success supporting local government organisations to secure and manage grant funds, from drafting realistic and achievable grant applications to the full spectrum of project management from concept and delivery to evaluation and reporting. We’ve delivered grants for a wide range of projects spanning organics Infrastructure collections and education, textiles reuse and recycling, landfill closure and environmental improvement, Bin Trim, Your Business is Food, litter management and bushfire recovery.
Behaviour change and education
Effective strategic planning for the delivery of waste and resource recovery services requires councils to understand the needs of the communities they serve.
Community willingness to respond positively and adopt new strategies and service changes is also heavily reliant on clear, consistent and continuous education and engagement.
Impact partners with councils around the country to develop strategic frameworks and documentation for community engagement. We also develop and deliver comprehensive education programs that create awareness and acceptance and drive positive behavioural change, from community workshops to managing large LGA-wide campaigns around service changes.
Our approach is immersive, with extensive experience gathering valuable data in the field through waste audits and analysis of the three-bin system, council depots, and business waste.
Regional and rural waste facility EPA compliance
Regional and rural councils often lack economies of scale that can make the management of waste infrastructure – and meeting the requirements of routine EPA inspections – challenging.
Impact works with councils to ensure that their facilities meet all EPA requirements.
For licensed landfills, this can take the form of a voluntary compliance audit where our team visits the facility and assesses its performance against the licence conditions.
Unlicensed facility performance can be measured against section 142 of the POEO Act, which provides a defence against potential prosecution for land pollution.
Strategy and options analysis
Waste management is a constantly and rapidly evolving field, made increasingly complex by the interplay of technological advances and regulation.
Local councils must balance the environmental benefits of resource recovery against their unique economic and political constraints.
Impact provides customised services to councils to improve strategic decision-making, working in partnership to capture strategic objectives aligned with community expectations.
We help councils identify viable options from competing scenarios through comprehensive modelling, generating proposed action plans tailored to local characteristics.
Event management
There is a wealth of collective capability across the government and private sectors.
Coming together as professionals and operators to share knowledge and experience is essential to shaping a better waste industry, now and into the future.
Impact is uniquely positioned as both an event manager and a specialist waste consultancy.
We’re exposed to the latest innovations in the waste industry every day through our work with our clients, drawing on this to design and deliver the celebrated Coffs Waste Conference and a variety of events, workshops, and training programs for local government.
Contact Impact Environmental
Phone: +61 (2) 6583 8118
Email: impact@impactenviro.com.au
Address: PO Box 5057, Port Macquarie NSW 2444
