The City of Whittlesea is continuing the implementation of their rethinking waste strategy with the rollout of glass separation bins to align with state government requirements.
The 120 litre glass recycling bins will be supplied and distributed to residential households across the municipality.
In a council meeting on Monday, May 16 it was announced that the introduction of a residential curbside glass recycling service was expected for September of this year.
The project is in line with the state government’s recycling Victoria policy which requires all Victorians to have either a separate glass bin for recycling by 2027.
Administrator Chris Eddy said the glass bin rollout was imperative to quell the issue of recycling in Whittlesea.
“I think this is an important first step. Our survey responses tell us that the community wants to see glass recycling in some way, shape or form. I think at a high level, it’s really important that we start to address this because there’s so much contamination of glass in other curbside waste, and we need to separate them to do a better job in terms of our environmental sustainability.
So I’m very supportive of whatever steps we can take towards this,” he said.
