Tamworth landfill: Forest Road Master Plan means waste from outside local government area can't come to Tamworth

The newly adopted Forest Road Master Plan means waste from outside the local government area can't end up in the city's landfill.

The two-year contract that earned Tamworth Regional Council $2.7 million with Coffs Harbour's Biomass Solutions will end in March 2021, after the company found a more convenient place to dump its mixed waste organic material.

The contract length was only ever going to be an interim agreement, a TRC spokeswoman said.

"The newly adopted Forest Road Master Plan does not allow or include waste from outside of Tamworth Local Government Area, therefore the council's resourcing plans will not consider these arrangements in future," she said.

"... the ending of the contract will not have any unforeseen impact on council revenue for the 2020 to 2021 financial year.

"Gate fees for 2021 to 2022 will be reviewed as normal in order to offset operational costs."

Mixed waste organics are made up of the organic material in the red general waste bins.

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Before October 2018, the material was sold or given to farmers to use on agricultural land, for mine site rehabilitation and plantation forests.

It has been used to improve soil for two decades but regulation only began in 2010.

That's when the NSW Environmental Protection Authority created strict controls for how much of the material could be used on agricultural land, it was also not allowed to be used at home.

In October 2018 it was decided to ban the use of mixed waste organics altogether and the material needed to be disposed in landfill.