March 11th, 2023Some hub help to tackle the hard-to-recycle bits

The Hepburn Shire Council has moved to remind residents they can take their tricky-to-recycle items, including e-waste, to their closest Hepburn Shire Customer Service hub for recycling.

In a move hoped to help ensure e-waste and other potentially toxic or environmentally hazardous items don’t slip through the recycling system and into landfill – or worse – the council has issued a public reminder, using its latest newsletter to reach residents.

It draws attention to the fact that some items like light globes and printer cartridges contain valuable materials that cannot be recovered and recycled through the yellow kerbside bin.

Other items, like electrical appliances and batteries, contain toxic heavy metals that pollute the environment and are therefore banned from residents’ red kerbside bins.

Items that can instead be taken to the shire’s customer service hubs for safe recycling include:

• Small electrical items (e-waste)
• Batteries (excluding car batteries)
• Plastic bottle lids
• Mobile phones
• Plastic bread tags
• Spectacles (no cases)
• Oral care products and packaging
• Light globes
• Printer cartridges.