The council has plans for what it calls an improved resource recovery park at Green Island as it plans to close its municipal landfill at the site before the end of the decade and introduce a new kerbside collection system across the city from the middle of next year.
A council spokesman said after the kitchen and garden waste collection facility was completed next year, complementary facilities would be built at the site, to open in 2025.
"We’re planning to build an Organics Receival Building (ORB) on the site which has now been cleared, which will be used to receive food scraps and garden waste that are collected as part of the new kerbside collection service," the spokesman said.
"The facility will form part of the redevelopment of Green Island Resource Recovery Park ... and is due to be operational in time for the launch of the new kerbside collection service on July 1, 2024.
"Remaining facilities, including composting and processing, are due be operational in 2025."
Construction of the ORB building had begun and was expected to be complete about early June, at a cost of about $3.6m, he said.
The building would be of a rectangular steel design. There would be a parking area for trucks, with some landscaping and plantings, he said.
From the middle of next year the council will introduce kerbside food scraps and garden waste collection, along with wheelie bin collection for rubbish, replacing the prepaid plastic rubbish bags now in use.
The Green Island landfill has been Dunedin's primary landfill for decades, but is nearing capacity.
It is due to be replaced by a planned landfill at Smooth Hill, south of the city, which was given the go-ahead last year after Environment Court mediation between the council and a Brighton community group that opposed the plan.
