Magnetic Island's
Zero Waste Strategy
Towards Zero Waste Magnetic Island - SURVEY
You can help shape the Island’s new Waste Strategy by clicking on the button below to complete the Survey.
This is your chance to help shape the Towards Zero Waste Magnetic Island Strategy 2025–2030 as a community-led roadmap to smarter, more sustainable waste solutions for our Island.
Let's work together to protect our Island home, reduce our environmental footprint, and care for the Great Barrier Reef.
This survey closes on Thursday 31st July 2025.
Significant documents include:
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Download/View: Draft Towards Zero Waste Magnetic Island Strategy 2025-2030
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Download/View: APC Waste Strategy 2025-2030 Discussion/Technical Paper
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Download/view: APC Community Consultation and Stakeholder Engagement Report
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Download/View: APC Waste Audit 2024 Magnetic Island
ADD YOUR FEEDBACK TO THE DRAFT STRATEGY VIA THIS SURVEY:
Towards Zero Waste Magnetic Island Strategy Consultation Feedback
About the Strategy
The Towards Zero Waste Strategy has been developed by MICDA with support from Townsville City Council and funded by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. It’s based on two years of:
• Community and visitor surveys
• Focus groups and stakeholder input
• A detailed island-wide waste audit
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This Strategy sets out a practical path to reduce waste, cut emissions, and protect our World Heritage Island and Reef values.
Based on Circular Economy principles – rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle, and more.
Informed by local data – including events, waste and survey of residents, business and visitors.
Targets aligned with State and Federal policy.
Actions backed by timelines and budgets.
Why waste matters on Magnetic Island
Magnetic Island generates significant waste — not just from our 2,400 residents but from 290,000 annual visitors, staying an estimated 880,000 nights per year.
When organic waste ends up in landfill, it creates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Addressing this helps tackle climate change — the biggest threat to the Reef — and keeps our island clean and healthy.
Reducing waste = Saving energy, emissions, raw materials and money.
Who's behind the strategy?
We’ve partnered with APC Waste Consultants, island waste strategy specialists with over 35 years experience. Led by Anne Prince, APC has delivered successful strategies for:
• Lord Howe Island - with a 84% diversion from landfill!
• Norfolk Island, Kangaroo Island and Rottnest Island.
• 16 Torres Strait Islands and 25 First Nations communities
… and many more communities.
Anne Prince and her team brings decades of experience Australia-wide in waste solutions tailored for remote, regional and island communities.
Anne Prince from APC.
A shared vision
The Magnetic Island community shares a vision of becoming a leader in sustainability — including becoming a 'Towards Net Zero Waste Island".
The Strategy reflects our values and practical needs, and it will help guide future waste programs, projects, and policies.
Let’s make this a strategy we can all be proud of.
Stay involved!
• Download the draft strategy.
• Submit your feedback.
• Join the Zero Waste Magnetic Island mailing list
• Follow the journey on Facebook and Instagram.
What happens next?
We will be finalising the Towards Zero Waste Magnetic Island Strategy 2025-2030 after our final Community Consultations in July 2025. Please like the MICDA Facebook page to stay up to date, and see the News page.
If you would like to become involved, or for more information, please complete the form below, or contact the Advisors directly below this form:
Email inquiries
ZERO WASTE
Resident Zero Waste Solutions and Towards Zero Waste Magnetic Island Strategy:
Aniko Papp
Business Zero Waste Solutions:
Adriana Labante
The Community Climate Action Project for Magnetic Island (Yunbenun) is funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.
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