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Impressive waste contamination rates continue

For the month of November, nearly 750 tonnes of food and garden waste was composted and will ultimately go back to earth.

Greater Shepparton City Council Director Infrastructure/City Engineer Phil Hoare said this is an outstanding result for which residents are to be commended. “Thank you to all residents for the steady improvement in contamination rates over time and maintaining these great results. In June 2017 we had a contamination rate of 2.4 per cent and in September 2017 it was only 1.83 per cent,” he said.

“These are very pleasing results and it shows Greater Shepparton residents are thinking carefully about which bin they use for their waste,” said Mr Hoare.

“Putting organic waste in the green lid bin has many benefits, primarily protecting our environment and diverting waste from landfill which has long term benefits for all.”

“We are heading into the festive season where we will enjoy food with our families and many left overs are placed in the bin, I would like to remind residents if they do have leftover food to please place them into their green bin. Dumping food and garden waste in landfill is a waste of available space and loss of a useful resource which could be used to enrich our soils and help to grow healthy crops and pastures that produce food for everyone”.

“If you have excess rubbish this festive season, Council takes domestic quantities of cardboard, wrapping paper, polystyrene and household recyclable items for free at any of our three Resource Recovery Centres”.

“If you have any household items like old couches, bikes and excess kid’s toys, they can also be taken to the Shepparton Resource Recovery Centre. If deemed suitable by staff, they’ll sell them in the Shepparton Resale Shop, making them free to dispose of as well”.

“Residents have done a great job in separating their waste and maintaining a low contamination rate, let’s continue this by keeping plastic bags and rubbish out of the green bins to ensure the organics collected from households is free from contamination,” said Mr Hoare.

For more information about contamination, what can and can’t go in the green lid bin and more visit Green waste.