The Bayside Waste and Recycling Centre located at 144 Talinga Rd, Cheltenham provides a valuable and much-needed service to the Bayside and neighbouring communities. The centre currently offers a variety of waste and resource recovery services for both residents and commercial businesses.
The current site lease is ending in August 2023, creating an exciting opportunity to increase resource recovery at the facility, as well as improve the overall customer experience.
We undertook a five-week community consultation process in March - April 2022 to understand how our community use the centre, what their experience has been, and what type of services they love or want to see added to the centre in the future. Almost 1,000 community members shared ideas and feedback on the Bayside Waste and Recycling Centre.
Following community consultation, a two-stage expression of interest process was held to find a suitable tenant to deliver the reimagined recycling centre. From this process, Future Recycling Pty Ltd, were selected as the preferred tenant to operate the Bayside Waste and Recycling Centre.
Under the proposed lease, Future Recycling Pty Ltd will contribute $4,698,000 to fully fund the redevelopment of the centre. The proposed redevelopment will transform the recycling centre into a state-of-the-art facility focused on resource recovery and the circular economy.
The redevelopment will also include the addition of a new repair café where members of the community can bring in items for repair, and a recycle shop where recycled items can be purchased by the community.
Future Recycling Pty Ltd will also increase the number of materials that can be accepted at the facility as well as install a Container Deposit Scheme drop-off point.
Consultation on the proposed lease is open until 28 May 2023.
