Sunraysia residents can now receive special prize packs simply for using their kerbside bins correctly.
Mildura Rural City Council’s Recycling Rewards Program aims to celebrate and reward residents doing the right thing with their bins throughout August.
Council’s Waste team will conduct visual inspections of residential bins in a selected area just before the area’s collection date.
The first round of the program will focus on:
- Ensuring bagged rubbish/recycling and soft plastics aren’t placed in recycling bins
- Ensuring plastic bags are not used to dispose of organic waste in green waste bins.
Selected areas will be posted on Council’s social media channels two weeks before inspection dates.
Other aims of the program include:
- Highlighting the importance of waste diversion
- Raising awareness about correct bin use and the circular economy
- Lowering contamination rates in kerbside recycling and organics bins
- Decreasing the amount of recycling and organics in general rubbish bins (red lid)
- Celebrating good waste management practices
- Recognising good kerbside bin placement
- Providing general waste education.
Winners will receive prize packs comprising:
- Reusable coffee cup
- Reusable water bottle
- Reusable metal straw
- ‘No junk mail’ sign
- Paper caddy liners
- Mildura Rural City Council key chain
- A winner’s sticker to put on one of their bins.
Any Mildura Rural City Council resident who receives kerbside collection is eligible to enter the program.
Residents can check to see which area is being inspected at mildura.vic.gov.au/RecyclingRewards.
Bin inspections are visual-only. There will be no physical contact with waste inside bins.
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