Southern Region Waste Resource Authority

SRWRA is a regional subsidiary established by the Cities of Onkaparinga, Marion and Holdfast Bay, pursuant to Section 43 of the Local Government Act, 1999.

Under our Charter, SRWRA is responsible for providing and operating waste management services on behalf of our constituent Councils.

At a practical level, our core business activity is the management of our wholly-owned SRWRA Landfill and Recycling Operation employing innovative resource recovery approaches in managing all products and materials as valuable and finite resources. SRWRA is one of the State’s major landfill operations currently receiving over 100,000 tonnes of waste annually.

Since 1996 the Authority has been extracting landfill gas (methane) through its gas management plant. On average, the Authority generates over 18,000MWh per annum from the SRWRA Landfill facility, equivalent to powering more than 2,500 local homes. As a result, more than 6.8m cubic metres of methane from the SRWRA’s Landfill Gas site is consumed, CO2 abatement equivalent to taking 26,000 cars off the road.

The SRWRA’s joint venture operation with Integrated Waste Services (IWS) has developed through 2016/17 with significant improvements in the recycling programme through the jointly operated Southern Recycling Centre (SRC) realising significant improvements in the reduction of waste to landfill.