The Regional Coordination Support Program

We provide waste and recycling program and infrastructure funding for local councils, and support for groups of councils to collaborate across regions.

Regional Coordination Support Program

We administer the Regional Coordination Support Program which provides support for regional collaboration on waste and resource recovery priorities to regional organisations of councils, joint organisations, and voluntary regional waste groups.

The NSW Government has committed $15.6 million over 5 years under the NSW Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy (WaSM) to build on the success of the program and continue support for regional collaboration and the transition to a NSW circular economy.

The program supports 14 participating regional waste groups who work together to improve resource recovery and waste management across NSW.

The regional waste groups monitor and facilitate improvements to waste management, resource recovery practices and the transition to a circular economy in rural, regional and metropolitan NSW. It also serves as an advisory body on matters like infrastructure sharing, resource recovery systems, regional procurement, drop-off centres and other circular economy activities.

They work with a range of stakeholders across state and local government, industry, communities, and other regional waste groups to provide leadership and innovation, drive continuous improvement in sustainable waste and resource management practices.

The groups are guided by the following principles:

• engaging regional groups and their member councils
• addressing differing issues and priorities
• enabling intergovernmental liaison
• balancing planning and action to ensure delivery of results
• supporting skills development
• advocating rural and metropolitan initiatives and programs
• guiding and developing effective and focused projects
• facilitating effective communication and education programs
• implementing community engagement and evaluation techniques
• sharing learnings and resources for adaptation to differing audiences
• integrating innovative sustainable resource management.

Explore the NSW Waste groups

Regional responses to WaSM

Regional Waste Groups prepare regional waste strategies called Regional Responses to WaSM and reflect regional and local priorities under the policy direction of the WaSM to guide the work of the groups and their participating councils. The EPA issued guidance (PDF 897KB) to assist regional waste groups plan and prepare their strategic responses to the WaSM.