Kerbside Recycling Rewards Program

The program will focus on the organics and recycling streams from residential collections.

Our Waste team will conduct visual inspections of residential bins in a selected area just prior to collection. We’ll be looking at the top of the bin, with no physical contact to be made to any of the waste to protect the health and safety of the inspecting officer(s).

Council will post which areas have been selected to take part in inspections on our website and social media two weeks prior.

Depending on the outcome of the inspection, a bin tag will be put on the bin informing the resident on if they did or didn’t have contamination in the bin. For any bins with gross contamination (entire bin full of rubbish for example), a sticker will also be placed over the lid and the bin will not be emptied.

For the first round we will focus on the following:

Recycling

• Bagged rubbish and recycling
• Soft plastics

Organics

• Bagged rubbish and recycling
• Soft plastics

Any residents within the MRCC municipality area who receive a kerbside collection is eligible to be entered into the program. Council staff will be exempt from winning any prize packs.

Candidates will be identified by using the following criteria:

• No contamination within their organics or recycling bins
• No current removal of organics or recycling bins
• No unauthorised bins
• No overflowing bins

One winner will be selected for each of the weekly inspected areas by the inspecting officers.

Winners will receive the following prize pack that focuses on waste minimisation:

• 1 x Reusable coffee cup
• 1 x Reusable water bottle
• 1x Reusable metal straw
• 1 x No junk mail sign
• 1x MRCC keychain
• 1x Paper caddy liners
• 1 x winners sticker for their bin

1. The promoter is Mildura Rural City Council, 108 Madden Avenue, Mildura 3500
2. This program is only available to addresses located within the Mildura Rural City Council municipal area with access to kerbside bin collections
3. Only approved Mildura Rural City Council bins will be eligible to be inspected and be entered into the competition
4. Employees of Mildura Rural City Council and their direct relatives and anyone else directly connected to Mildura Rural City Council are not eligible to be entered
5. There is no entry fee or purchases required to be entered
6. Information regarding the program will be communicated through the Mildura Rural City Council website and social media channels
7. A property’s bins, regardless of approved additional bins, will be counted as one entry
8. The promoter reserves the right to cancel or amend these terms and conditions without notice in the event of a catastrophe, war, civil or military disturbance, natural disaster or any actual or anticipated breach of any applicable law or regulation or any other event outside of the promoter’s control. Any changes will be notified to entrants as soon as possible by the promoter
9. The prize pack for each winning entry will be the following; A reusable coffee cup, reusable water bottle, reusable metal straw, No junk mail sign, a MRCC keychain, paper caddy liners and a Winners sticker to affix to their recycling bin.
10. One winner will be selected each week
11. The prizes are as stated and no cash or other alternatives will be offered. The prizes are not transferable. Prizes are subject to availability and we reserve the right to substitute any prize with another of equivalent value without giving notice
12. The winners of each daily inspected area will be selected by the inspection team with input from the department manager
13. All reasonable attempts will be made to contact winners within one week
14. If all reasonable attempts to contact a winner fail within that week, we reserve the right to withdraw the prize from the winner and pick a replacement winner
15. The promoter will notify the winners of when and where to collect the prize pack
16. The promoter’s decision in respect of all matters to do with the competition will be final and no correspondence will be entered into
17. The competition and these terms and conditions will be governed by Australian law and any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Australia
18. The winners agree to the use of their name and photograph in any publicity material, as well as their entry. Any personal data relating to the winner or any other entrants will be used solely in accordance with current Australian privacy laws and will not be disclosed to a third party without the entrant’s prior consent. The winners’ names will be available 28 days after closing date by emailing the following address: mrcc@mildura.vic.gov.au
19. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook or any other social media network. You are providing your information to Mildura Rural City Council and not to any other party. The information provided will be used in conjunction with Mildura Rural City Council’s Privacy and Data Collection Policy which can be found at www.mildura.vic.gov.au/Privacy
20. Mildura Rural City Council shall have the right, at its sole discretion and at any time, to change or modify these terms and conditions, such change shall be effective immediately upon posting to this webpage
21. Mildura Rural City Council also reserves the right to cancel the competition if circumstances arise outside of its control