Councils offer extra recycling services over Christmas period

Regardless of when their usual recycling week is, Warrnambool residents will have their recycling and rubbish bins collected in the week before Christmas and the week of Christmas.

The first extra service will be on December 17 for residents with a Sunday bin night.

Warrnambool City Council city amenity manager Glenn Reddick said the additional service would provide the city’s residents with a greater capacity to manage their additional recyclables.

“This is the time of year when many residents’ recycling bins are approaching capacity,” he said.

“We want to ensure that all of the glass bottles, aluminium cans, cardboard boxes and even balls of wrapping paper that are so prevalent during Christmas and New Year are properly recycled and don’t end up in landfill.”

Due to Christmas falling on a Monday, there are changes to the kerbside collection nights for all residents for the weeks of Christmas and New Year. During these weeks, residents should place their bins out one night later than usual.

Some Moyne residents will get a Christmas bonus this year, with an extra kerbside recycling bin collection to take place between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. 

The initiative came about after requests from the community, which resulted in Moyne Shire councillors agreeing to approve the extra bin pick-up.

The pick-up will take place on the first collection after Christmas, which means residents will need to put out all three bins (rubbish, recycling and FOGO).

The decision was made to help people correctly dispose of their recyclable materials and deal with the excess quantities of Christmas wrappings, cardboard and glass that accumulates at this time of year.

The holiday period has also slightly altered the kerbside bin collection routine, with no collection on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day due to those public holidays falling on Mondays.

This effectively pushes all collections back one day, except for those on a Friday, which will happen later in the day.

Collections over the Christmas-New Year period for Moyne is as follows: