Greater Geelong
residents will have access to two free hard waste collections a year, after
council extended the service for a further 12 months from July.
Households
which have already had a hard waste collection will be able to book another
collection before the end of June and then twice from July 2020 to July 2021.
The
list of accepted items has also been expanded to include mattresses, which are
one of the region’s most illegally dumped items.
The trial has
been hugely successful with 20,300 bookings since it started in March last
year, equating to 18 per cent of all households across the municipality booking
a free collection. Over the past 12 months, 2484 tonnes of waste material was
collected of which over a quarter was diverted from landfill and recycled.
By diverting
waste from landfill into recycling streams, this program has saved the
community the equivalent of $85,000.
Stage four
coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions have seen a significant increase in the
program’s uptake, as residents use the time to clean up around the home.
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