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Keep coffee cups, shredded paper, tissues, bagged recyclables and glass out of your recycling

Keep your recycling loose for a big impact

The City of Ballarat is promoting to residents the importance of keeping recyclable items loose in the yellow-lid recycling bin, so that more of our mixed recycling can be turned into new products.The City of Ballarat, in partnership with Sustainability Victoria, has launched a Small Acts, Big Impact campaign.More than 6,140 tonnes of household recyclables were collected by City of Ballarat recycling collection vehicles in 2023. The Ballarat muni...

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Bin collection at your home

Find out when your next bin collection isPlease have your bins placed correctly by 6am on collection days.Correct placement:bin handle and wheels facing your house and the bin opening facing the roadbins 50cm apart from each otherdo not place bins behind parked cars, near trees or other obstructionsdo not overfill or place anything on top of your bins

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Have your say on our recycling and waste collections

Would you like to see a new purple-lid kerbside bin for glass or do you prefer the Pass on Glass drop-off system? Are you likely to place your food waste in the green waste bin as part of a new combined food organics and garden organics (FOGO) kerbside collection? Are your bins a good size and how often would you like to see your waste and recycling collected? These are some of the questions that the City of Ballarat is...

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City of Ballarat uses recycled asphalt in road construction

The City of Ballarat has for the first time used recycled asphalt from an existing road within the municipality to perform road upgrades at another location. Existing asphalt pavement from Sturt Street, between Dawson and Grenville streets, was removed by a profiling machine. This asphalt was then reused in the subgrade pavement at the Eureka Street / Warrenheip road roundabout, which is under construction. ‘Subgrade’ refers to the...

City of Ballarat Mayor Cr Des Hudson with the Ballarat Waste app

City of Ballarat launches new waste and recycling app

Never forget your bin night again!The City of Ballarat has launched a Ballarat Waste app to put local waste and recycling information right at your fingertips.Available free from iPhone and Android app stores, the app empowers residents to access information about their waste and recycling services from the convenience of their smart phone.With the Ballarat Waste app you can:Access kerbside collection schedules and set bin night remindersReceive ...

Ballarat Soft Plastics Pilot Program launch

City of Ballarat launches soft plastics recycling pilot program

Ten thousand households across the Ballarat municipality will be able to recycle their ‘scrunchable’ soft plastics as part of a new 12-month kerbside collection pilot program.The City of Ballarat, in partnership with the Australian Food and Grocery Council, has launched a kerbside soft plastics recycling collection, enabling residents to recycle their soft plastics in a City of Ballarat-supplied orange bag that can now be placed in residents’ yel...

ASPIRE online platform

Research from Europe shows moving to a circular economy could increase economic growth by between 0.8% and 1.4% per year. This would mean an annual increase in Ballarat’s GRP of $57-$100 million and 380-680 extra jobs. We are encouraging Ballarat businesses to think twice about adopting a circular economy.

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Don’t forget to have your say on our recycling and waste collections

Just two weeks remain for you to have your say to help shape the future of our kerbside waste and recycling collections. Under the Circular Economy (Waste Reduction and Recycling) Act 2021, all Victorian councils must introduce a food organics and garden organics (FOGO) collection for all households by 2030 and a separate glass recycling collection by 2027. In line with the changes, the City of Ballarat is now reviewing its kerb...

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Transfer Station

The City of Ballarat Transfer Station can take green waste, hard waste, recycling, and chemical waste.

Materials Recovery Facility

Ballarat Materials Recovery Facility and Circular Economy Precinct the key to cut recyclables going to landfill

The City of Ballarat is calling for support from the Victorian and Australian Governments to build a Materials Recovery Facility in Ballarat. The facility, which would be built as the centrepiece of a Circular Economy Precinct at the Ballarat West Employment Zone, would reduce the amount of recyclables going into landfill and support&...