Recycling Service - Where Does It All Go
Where Does It All Go?
1. Recyclable items only are placed in the yellow lid bin for collection at the kerbside.
2. Recycling items are taken to a Visy Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) where they are sorted.
3. Did you know that many of the recyclables collected are hand sorted? Please do not place recycling in plastic bags or include hazardous or dangerous items to be recycled. Please consider the workers safety
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4. Once sorted the items are baled and sold. They will be shredded, pulped or melted before being turned into new products.
5. Great jackets are just one example of products that can be made from recycled plastic bottles.
Plastic Bags Are Our Biggest Problem
Plastic Bags are not recyclable through the household recycling service. Please do not place recyclables inside a plastic bag or place plastic bags in the recycling bin or the garden organics bin.
An average of half a million shopping bags are collected every year on Clean Up Australia Day. Plastic shopping bags also appeared in the Top Ten Rubbish Items in the 2006 Clean Up Australia Rubbish Report.
Saying 'No' to plastic bags is easy. When shopping, take reusable alternatives like "green bags", calico bags, string bags, baskets or boxes with you. Find a local supermarket that offers plastic bag recycling the next time you go shopping.
Our Shire's Streams and Wasterways
Sea birds die every year around the world as a result on plastic litter. When the animal dies and decays the plastic is free again to repeat the deadly cycle.
Back to Your Waste Service or see what happens to the contents of the green lid garden organics bin.
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