Urban residential

Urban residential – Actions

Overview
Actions

Practical actions that can help managers reduce waste pollution in the urban residential sector include:

Community clean-up campaigns
Litter vacuum systems
Tractor-powered sifters
Street sweepers
Treatment wetlands
Constructed treatment systems
Sediment traps
Vegetated buffers and swales
Litter fences
Litter booms
High-flow bio-filtration technology
Gross pollutant traps
Gravity filtration technology
High efficiency coalescing separator
Stormwater filter systems
Full capture storm drain netting systems
Litter-collecting wheels and conveyors
In water oil and litter removal systems
Microplastic laundry filters
Marine filters
Litter clean-up kits
Cleaning stations
Manual waste collection - waterways
Manual waste collection - land
Recycle
Stockpile covers and bags
Sensor technologies
Surveillance cameras
Surveys, projects and compliance systems
Automatic underground waste collection

Last updated: 10 May 2021

This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2021) Urban residential – Actions, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/management/pressures/litter-illegal-dumping/sources/urban-residential/management.html