WHEN you pull your bin from out on the street this week, remember from now on your red bin is no place for food and lawn clippings.
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Green bin collection starts on Monday so now is the time to get your rubbish sorted.
Once your bin is collected this week you must only place food scraps, including meat and dairy products, lawn clippings and twigs and leaves in the green bin. The red bin is for waste such as plastic bags, nappies, foam and plastic wrappers.
The green bins, which will be used for food waste, will be collected weekly on the same day as residents’ red bin collection.
Ratepayers began paying an $80 fee for the green bin last July with the money going to the construction of the Hub waste facility on Euchareena Road and a compost buy-back system where, for about $35, residents will be able to purchase the compost they have contributed to creating.
The introduction of the green bin waste system has been wrought with controversy, from residents complaining they have had to pay for a system they would not get for a year to complaints there would not be enough room in unit complexes to store the green, red and yellow bins.
Environmental sustainability community committee chairman Neil Jones said despite criticism, the system was a big win for the area.
“Everyone pays the same amount, because, for example, everyone pays for the library and the swimming pool whether you use it or not. Everyone is paying for an affordable waste system for the whole community,” he said.
In a unit complex with 10 units, up to 30 bins would be out for collection.
Mr Jones suggested residents could share bins and return the unwanted ones, but would still be required to pay the full fee.
The size of the bins and regularity of collection may be reduced if the volume of red bin waste decreases when the green bins are introduced.
What goes where ...
Red bin: Foam, nappies, tissues, ceramics, crockery, plastic bags, packets, cling wrap, bubble wrap, honey containers and honey products, drinking glasses, mirrors.
Yellow bins: Steel and aluminium cans and empty aerosols, glass bottles and jars, cardboard boxes, milk and juice cartons, newspaper, magazines, office paper and junk mail, rigid plastic containers from your kitchen, bathroom and laundry.
Green bin: Fruit, vegetables, meat, cake, bread, rice, pasta, dairy food, tea, coffee, lawn clippings, dry leaves, twigs and prunings.
nicole.kuter@fairfaxmedia.com.au
