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Bass Coast wins National AustStab Award for sustainable road recycling and innovative rehabilitation
Bass Coast Shire Council won the 2025 AustStab Award for Excellence for pioneering road recycling methods, cutting emissions by 85%, truck movements by 80%, and delivering faster, more sustainable, durable roads with less disruption.
Bass Coast Shire Council has been honoured with the 2025 AustStab Award for Excellence in Recycling Pavements in Local Government for its innovative approach to road rehabilitation. The award recognises council's leadership in delivering stronger, more sustainable roads while minimising disruption for the community.
Bass Coast Shire Council won the 2025 AustStab Award for pioneering road recycling, reducing emissions, truck movements, and delivering faster, sustainable, durable roads with minimal community disruption
Sustainable roads awarded
The award-winning project on Berry's Beach Road, Phillip Island, tried a new Paver Laid In-Situ Recycling process - a method that reuses existing road materials on site. A short time later, the same method was used at Archie's Creek. The method reduces truck movements, construction time, and environmental impacts while still delivering a durable road surface.
Bass Coast Mayor, Cr Rochelle Halstead, said the recognition is a proud moment. "Our community relies on safe, accessible and durable roads every day. By recycling materials on site, we're not only reducing greenhouse emissions and heavy truck traffic, but we're also completing work faster - which means less time and interruption for locals, businesses and visitors right across Bass Coast. This award shows that Bass Coast is leading the way nationally in sustainable road building," Cr Halstead said.
Greener roads ahead
The project achieved an 85 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to traditional road reconstruction methods and cut truck movements to site by more than 80 percent. With its unique geography - from Phillip Island's sensitive environment and single access bridge to the expansive rural and coastal road networks on the mainland - Bass Coast faces challenges that many other councils do not.
With its unique geography - from Phillip Island's sensitive environment and single access bridge, to the expansive rural and coastal road networks on the mainland - Bass Coast faces challenges that many other councils do not. By embracing sustainable road building methods and trialling new innovations, council is ensuring the community benefits from safer, longer-lasting roads, delivered with less disruption and greater value.
Pictures from Bass Coast Shire Council website.
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