Future Planning

Waste Strategy 2025 – 2035

The Gympie Regional Council Waste Strategy 2025-2035 provides a framework for transforming waste management in the Region over the next decade. Our vision is to build a waste infrastructure system that promotes circular services and practices to foster a resilient and resource-efficient community.

Waste Strategy 2025-2035

Planning for our region's next waste facility

Gympie Regional Council is planning now for the region’s long-term waste management needs to ensure reliable and affordable waste services are available for generations to come.

Council has purchased a 162-hectare property at Lower Wonga as the preferred site for detailed investigation as a potential future waste management facility.

Lower Wonga was identified as the preferred site following several years of investigations into long-term waste management options, including consideration of a range of locations over time and, most recently, an assessment of 12 potential sites across the Gympie region.

Purchasing the property allows Council to undertake the detailed investigations needed to demonstrate whether Lower Wonga can meet the required planning and environmental standards and provide the long-term waste solution the region needs.

This work is expected to take more than two years and will include environmental, engineering, technical and planning investigations and the required planning and environmental assessment and approval processes.

To find out more, visit Gympie Region Future Waste Facility | Gympie Regional Council