 Council's Waste Services are
designed to help the community re-use its resources. We are
strengthening our commitment to reducing the City’s impact on the
environment by actively recycling and reprocessing as much waste as
possible and reducing the amount of rubbish sent to landfill areas.
Reducing landfill lessens the impact waste has on our local
environment. Council’s extensive waste services are detailed in the
links below.
Business Waste Collection
Service
General Clean-Up Service
Clothing Bin Locations
Free Green Waste Drop-off
Service
On-call Heavy Household
Item Service
On-call
Clean-up Service
Recycling Process
Recycling Service
WSN’s Rockdale Waste
Centre
Garbage and Organics Recovery
Service
Free Medical Sharps
Disposal Service
New Resident Services
Waste Hotline
Free Recycling Tours
New
Waste Service
Council's new waste service will ensure
collected waste
that can be
reused or recycled will increase over the next 10 years from 25 per
cent to 70 per cent. Click here to
watch the video.
As a result of the new waste service,
residents have two garbage bins
that will do it all:
- A red-lidded Garbage & Organics
Recovery Bin for food scraps and green waste, and
- A yellow-lidded Recycling Bin for
paper, glass, plastics, aluminium and steel (no plastic bags).
Recycling using your yellow-lidded bin
helps the environment by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases,
reducing energy use and by saving water. The greenhouse gas benefit
from Rockdale’s annual recycling is equivalent to removing 1200 cars
from the road.
By processing the materials in the new red-lidded bin using new
technology, Rockdale will further reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas
footprint by 11,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (compared to
landfilling) which would have the same effect as removing another 2600
cars from the road.
Recycling benefits calculated using Department of Environment and
Climate Change’s Environmental Benefits of Recycling Calculator, July
2006
Rockdale Council's newest recycling
mascot recently starred in his own 30 second commercial. You can watch
and download the ads by following the link to the Steel Can Steve Ad page.
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