Although the aluminium foil and plastic wrappers on Easter eggs may look pretty, it’s not so pretty when it comes to the impact it has on our environment due to the energy and resources required to produce it, with most still ending up in landfill. Why waste it? This Easter, Read more…
MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday, 20 December 2023 One year on from a battery fire that destroyed a recycling facility in Australia’s capital city, the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR) is overwhelmingly concerned about increasing incidents involving the incorrect disposal of batteries causing property damage, serious injury and death—with these expected to Read more…
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Congratulations to the winners of this year’s International Compost Awareness Week, Take the Pledge to Compost competition! By comitting to compost more food scraps using their kitchen caddy and green bin, or by their home compost bin or worm farm, each winner was awarded with three bags of Jeffries‘ compost Read more…
Compost them As gardening expert Graham ‘Willow’ Williams once said: “Autumn leaves are ‘Gold in the Garden” He recommends turning them into a leaf mould (semi-decomposed leaf matter) by making a pile, adding some water, covering them, then turning them over every few weeks. In three months or so you’ll Read more…
Many of you will have heard the unfortunate and sad news that REDCycle has put their soft plastics collections on hold. What should I do with my soft plastic now? For the short-term, we advise residents to place soft plastic wrappers and bags in your landfill bin (red or blue Read more…
If your Green (Food and Garden Organcis) Bin is not emptied, please leave it on the kerb for 24 hours before contacting East Waste’s Customer Service Team. Due to the recent high rainfall we have experienced unprecedentedly high volumes and weights of green organic material being placed out for collection. Read more…
Following a unanimous decision by Council at its July meeting, Mayor Michael Hewitson is pleased with what he has called ‘the dawn of a new era for Unley’ in its waste management endeavours. The City of Unley is announcing it has joined a quorum of seven other councils to become Read more…
Single use, disposable coffee cups are NOT recyclable through the yellow lid recycle bin! Why? They are lined with plastic and/or wax which is very difficult to separate from the paper. They are also contaminated with coffee and milk residue. Public place recycle bins are often a slurry of coffee Read more…
Poor kerbside behaviour by South Australian households is creating $20 million each year in extra waste management costs, according to industry experts.