Kerbside Recycling Rewards Program

The program will focus on the organics, recycling and glass 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 prior.

Depending on the outcome of the inspection, a sticker will be put on the bin informing the resident on if they did or didn’t have contamination in the bin.

For the first round we will focus on the following:

Recycling

• Bagged rubbish and recycling
• Soft plastics

Organics

• Plastic bags

Glass

• Non-eligible items
• Plastic bags

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

Two winners will be selected by the inspecting officers across the two week competition.

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

• 1x Reusable coffee cup
• 1x  Reusable water bottle
• 1x  Reusable Lunch Box
• 1 x Winners sticker to affix to the winner’s bin
• 1x MRCC keychain
• 1x Reusable metal straw