Resource Recovery & Waste Management
All environmental impacts are associated with our consumption patterns and associated waste, with energy and water used to make the houses we live in, the roads and cars we drive and the goods and services we purchase and use.
Council works to raise awareness of the need to reduce consumption patterns as part of our wider promotion of sustainability in everyday living.
This part of the website provides educational information on ways to turn ‘waste’ to resources.
Find ways to avoid waste by supporting Extended Producer Responsibility Schemes; manage your organics in your own backyard by composting and wormfarming; watch Making Compost - it's Easy DVD!; reuse valuable items, meet your neighbours and earn some cash via our SecondHand Saturday garage sale program; see our publications and resource section for educational brochures, posters and stickers; and find out more about the impacts of Illegal Dumping what to do if you see illegally dumped items. See the left hand panel for details.
Visit You and the Environment for more tips on a range of actions you can take at work and home to protect our environment.
Visit Services, Waste & Recycling for details on all Council's services including collection days for your street; what to put out in your collection; Council facilities, how to order bins and other resource recovery and waste management information.