Major Changes Planned for Recycling and Waste Services
Published on 10 June 2022
From July 2024, Mansfield Shire Council plans to introduce separate glass and food & garden organic waste services as well as continue to collect and process commingled recycling, similar to our current recycling bin, and the residual waste that goes to landfill.
Changes to how recycling is processed globally and new Commonwealth and Victoria Government legislation places new obligations on Council to introduce a four stream recycling and waste service for glass, food & garden organic waste, recycling and residual waste.
The new services will be progressively introduced from July 2024 when Council’s new contract for the collection and processing of recycling and waste in the Shire will begin.
Mayor James Tehan said that waste management of recycling and green waste is an important issue for the Shire’s residents.
“A Council community survey in 2019 found that the biggest environmental issue in the Shire is waste management of recycling and green waste followed by pest, plants & animals and then climate change.”
“Recycling and waste services in the Shire are large and complex. Last year Council contractors collected kerbside bins that contained 2,630 tonnes of residual waste, that was sent to landfill, and 1,370 tonnes of recycling that is processed in Melbourne.
“It’s also an expensive service. In the last year the contract to collect and dispose of waste and recycling in Mansfield Shire costed over $2.3 million.”
The Mansfield Shire Council is about to start an in-depth community engagement process, called a deliberative engagement, to re-imagine the collection, processing and disposal of recycling and waste in the Shire.
Mayor Tehan added that, “With the Shire’s many diverse communities and their different recycling and waste needs, agreeing the details of these changes such as the methods of collection, the frequency of pickups and the timing of these changes could be challenging.”
To find out more about these changes & what’s driving them and to have your say please go to the Council’s engage.mansfield.vic.gov.au site