Page 13 - City Chronicle Summer 2020

Environment - Page 13

Recycle Right This Summer

The festive season often leads to higher consumption • Wrapping paper belongs in your yellow lidded
of goods, so it’s important to remember good recycling recycling bin, but foil or plastic wrapping does not.
practice to keep as much waste out of landfill as possible.
• Try to reduce usage of disposable items and choose
• Keep and collect eligible containers for the Containers to reuse where you can.
for Change container deposit scheme. You will get a
10c refund for each container when returned at For more information visit the City’s website, or check out
allocated refund points. the full list of recyclables at the Recycle Right homepage
recycleright.wa.gov.au
• Make sure all materials are clean and dry before you
pop them in your recycling bin. Don’t forget to remove
the lids.
• Food and drink containers that can’t be washed
(like greasy pizza boxes), and napkins and tissues,
can’t be recycled so put them in your red-lidded
landfill bin.
• Soft plastics cannot be recycled through our kerbside
collection service, but you can return clean materials
to a Red Cycle collection point at most major
supermarkets. Soft plastics are those that can be
‘scrunched’ into a ball, like shopping bags, chip and
biscuit wrapping, frozen food bags and bubble wrap.

Bin Collection and Landfill

Services Over Summer

Millar Road
Dates Bin Collection Reuse Shop
Landfill Facility

Christmas Day
25 December 2020 Yes Closed Closed

Boxing Day
26 December 2020 Yes Open Open

New Year’s Day Yes Open Open
1 January 2021

Australia Day
26 January 2021 Yes Open Open

Bins may be collected earlier than usual on public holidays.
Please ensure bins are on the kerb by 6am on your bin collection day.