WASTE CYCLE

● Residential and commercial self-hauled waste is separated at one of 13 waste and recycling centres across the city.

● Mixed recyclables are sent to the Materials Recovery Facility at Carrara and sorted and sent to relevant recyclers.

● Green waste from kerbside collections and centres is sent to a composting facility.

● Other separated materials (car batteries, oil, electronic waste, whitegoods, scrap metal, cardboard, gas bottles, charity bins etc) are sent to relevant recyclers.

● Some construction and demolition materials (concrete, asphalt, soil, rock, masonry) can be reused for land-forming and cover at landfills, as well as in new works.

● Reusable materials collected at the Molendinar and Reedy Creek facilities are onsold at council recycling shops.