Presentations and Tours

The ACT NOWaste Education team is encouraging community groups and clubs to join them on site for FREE presentations and tours of the waste management facilities at the Materials Recovery Facility (where your household recycleables are taken) and Resource Management Centre (where waste may go to landfill, be sold for reuse, or recycled) at Hume. We are offering a choice of three formats (content detailed below) on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the school year.
We understand that each group or club has a different focus and are happy to discuss how to tailor each presentation so that it is relevant to you.

1. Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) presentation - 45mins
   
   
   
   • What we want you to put into the recycling bin and the common mistakes people make.
   • What the recycling gets turned into once it leaves the MRF
   • How the recycling from our kerbside bin is sorted and baled at the MRF.
   • Landfill and resource recovery facilities available at the Resource Management Centre (RMC) .
   
   Please note that this is presented in the education room at the Hume MRF so own transport to the venue is required.
   
   
2. MRF and RMC presentation and tour – 1 hour
   
   
   
   • How to use the two kerbside bins at home.
   • Half of the tour is in the education room learning about the MRF (see above).The other half of the tour is learning about the resource recovery facilities at the RMC.
   • Methane gas extraction, leachate ponds and landfill construction.
   
   You need to organise your own bus for the duration of the tour.
   
   
3. MRF, RMC, green waste and building demolition presentation –90 minutes
   
   
   
   • See content at point 2 above, plus
   • Construction and demolition and Green waste.
   
   You need to organise your own bus for the duration of the tour.

We need a minimum of 10 people at each session and can accommodate a maximum of 60 people per session.
For more information, please call 6207 7008 / 6207 6350 or email MRFTours@act.gov.au.