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Whitehorse residents are keen recyclers, and most residents want to do the right thing and recycle right. To help, we have a Gold Star Bin Education Program. The program involves our Gold Star team doing visual checks of household recycling and food organics and garden organics (FOGO) bins, and providing educational feedback tags.
The program aims to help residents recycle right and care for the environment and our community by:
- Updating waste and recycling knowledge: Knowing what can and can’t go in your recycling and FOGO bins can seem confusing. We provide you with tailored feedback to help you learn what items can and can’t go in your bins so you can feel confident to use your bins correctly.
- Reducing contamination in our bins: Contamination occurs when an incorrect item is put in the bin. Heavily contaminated bins can cause an entire truckload of recycling or FOGO to be sent to landfill. By putting the right items in the bin, we can help ensure accepted items can be recycled or composted, rather than being sent to landfill. This helps reduce the demand for new materials, and reduces water and energy needed to make new products.
- Keeping the community and workers safe: Incorrect items need to be removed by hand at sorting facilities and this can put workers at risk of injury. Some items are also hazardous, such as batteries and electronic waste. Putting these items in your bin could cause fires in the truck, at sorting facilities or in landfill.
Residents who use their bins correctly are automatically entered into the monthly draw to win a $50 Coles Myer gift voucher.
