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The City of Ballarat is taking a major step towards a sustainable ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ model of waste management with a strategy designed to transition the municipality to a circular economy.At its July meeting, the Ballarat City Council endorsed the public exhibition of the Draft Waste as a Resource: Our Circular Economy Strategy 2024-2028 for community feedback.  The draft is an update to the Resource Recovery and Waste Management S...

Ballarat Youth have engaged local artist Diokno Pasilan to help create an Art Installation made from fabric waste.  The Fabric Forest, on display in the Ballarat Mining Exchange, is an initiative for 2021 Victorian Youth Week funded by the Victorian Government and City of Ballarat and supported by the Ballarat Youth Services Team.  Victorian Youth Week is a week-long celebration of young people (aged 12–25).  It giv...

The City of Ballarat is raising awareness about State Government changes to how Victorians will soon be sorting their household waste and recycling into four streams.  All local government areas, including the City of Ballarat, will transition to a new glass service and a new food organics and garden organics (FOGO) service in the near future.   In March, the City of Ballarat will present a range of waste and recycling option...

The City of Ballarat’s new $5.7 million cell at the Ballarat Regional Landfill will begin taking the municipality’s household waste next week.Known as Cell 1 Stage 2, the cell (a large space dug at a landfill site where waste is compacted and layered within the ground) covers an area of 19,900m2 and will hold 325,000m3 of household waste. It is estimated it will reach capacity in three years.The existing and adjoining cell, known as Cell 1 Stage ...

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...

After extensive community engagement, Ballarat Council will consider a report on the future of kerbside waste and glass collections at its meeting on Wednesday 25 October.The officer recommendation to Council proposes the introduction of a new weekly Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) collection, household waste collection changing from weekly to fortnightly, the introduction of a monthly residential glass bin collection and for mixed recyc...