Compost

one of the best

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gardens

Wormfarms

and bokashi

bins can easily fit

into a balcony or

courtyard.

Home compost informationCreating compost is a great way to cut down on your waste and give something back to your garden. All food scraps (except meat and dairy) as well as grass, clippings, dried leaves and prunings can all be composted at home. Compost is one of the best ways to put nutrients back into your gardens soil and reduces the need for artificial fertilizers.

If you don’t have a garden there are still many options to sustainably dispose of your organic waste. Wormfarms and stand-alone units such as bokashi bins can easily fit into a balcony or courtyard.

There are also many community gardens that can assist and provide information

on how best to dispose of organic waste. Port Phillip Resource Recovery centre and Port Phillip EcoCentre both sell compost bins and wormfarms to

residents at a reduced rate. Contact the Resource Recovery centre on 9209 6686 or visit www.ecocentre.com

Corner White and Boundary Streets, South Melbourne. Melways reference 2E F11 Phone 9209 6686 or 9209 6533

Hours of OperationMonday to Friday 7.30am to 3.30pm Saturday and Sunday 9am to 1pm Closed all public holidays

Fees and Chargesall recyclable items: A car load is free of charge, larger amounts may incur a feenon-recyclable items: A fee is charged on all rubbish. Contact the centre for details (9209 6686)

green waste: Up to one trailer load is free of charge to residents only

What can I drop off?non-recyclable items

General household rubbish, furniture, small amounts of timber (take larger amount to your closest landfill)

recyclable items

General household recyclables (glass, cans, plastic, paper and cardboard),

clean green waste, iron and steel in small amounts, white goods and electronic waste, household batteries, light bulbs, gas bottles, motor and cooking oil, corks, plastic pots, household paint, polystyrene

not acceptedbricks, soil or building rubble cannot be taken to the Resource Recovery Centre. They must be taken to landfill.

Green Waste is mulChed and made available to residents free of CharGe. supply is subjeCt to availability so Call ahead.

resourCe reCovery Centre

* source: 2012 Port Phillip kerbside waste and recycling audit

17%recyclables

31%food

37%real rubbish

15%greenwaste

Contact informationfor all enquiries, including lost and damaged bins, hard and green waste bookings and reporting dumped rubbish, please contact assist on 9209 6777 or online at www.portphillip.vic.gov.au

national relay service assistance 24 hour tty / Voice: 133 677 speak and listen: 1300 555 727

Port Phillip residents disposed of around 21,000 tonnes of garbage and just under 14,000 tonnes of recycling in the last year. This means we are recycling about 40% of all the resources we use. It’s a great effort but we can do better!

The image below shows the contents of the average garbage bin in Port Phillip. You can see there are a lot of recyclable and reusable products going to waste. Port Phillip Council and residents are working on new and innovative ways to increase the diversion of valuable resources from landfill.

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Aerosol cans

Aluminium cans

Aluminium foil

Animal droppings

Asbestos

Bag ties

Band aids

Baskets

Batteries

Batteries (alkaline, NiMH, NiCad)

Batteries (car)

Beer bottles

Books

Bottle tops (plastic)

Bottle tops (metal)

Bottles (glass, plastic)

Boxes (cardboard)

Branches

Bricks and rubble

Building materials

Cake trays (plastic)

Cans

Car auto parts (small)

Carbon paper

Cardboard

Carpet/ carpet underlay

Cartridges (printer/toner)

Cassette tapes

Cellophane

Ceramics

Cereal box inserts

Cereal boxes

Chemicals

Cigarette butts

Cleaning rags

Cling wrap

Clothing

Clothing baskets

Coffee cans/jars

Computer paper

Computer parts

Concrete

Corks

Cosmetic jars

Cotton reels

Cotton wool buds

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Light bulbs

Light tubes

Lolly wrappers

Lunch boxesMagazinesManure

Electrical appliances

Envelopes

Eye glasses

Flourecent tubes

Foam boxes

Foam meat trays

Foam underlay

Foil (clean)

Food cans

Food waste

Fridges

Fruit & vegetables scraps

Furniture

Garden waste

Gas bottles

Glad wrap

Grass clippings

Greeting cards

Hot water units

Household chemicals

Household goods

Hypodermic needles

Ice cream containers

Jar lids (metal)

Jar lids (plastic)

Jars

Juice cartons

Junk mail

Kitty litter

Cups and saucers (intact)

Cups and saucers (broken)

Curtains

Cutlery (metal)

Cutlery (plastic)

Detergent bottles (plastic)

Disposable nappies

Dog poo

Doors

Drink cans

Drums (empty)

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call assist on 9209 6777

hard waste booking

compost bin/wormfarm

detox your home

garbage bin

school, childcare centre or kindergarten

Landfill (see yellow pages)

recycling bin

resource recovery centre

charities/op shops

refer to yellow pages for suppliers

return to your local supermarket

Pizza Boxes (empty)PlacematsPlant cuttingsPlant pots

Plasterboard

Plastic bags

Plastics codes 1-7

Plastic strapping

Plastic wrappers

Plate glass (wrapped)

Polystyrene

Printer/toner cartridges

Pyrex ovenware (broken)

Pyrex ovenware (intact)

Rubble

School bags

Scrap metal

Seedling containersShoesSilver foil

Smoke alarms

Margarine tubs

Matchboxes

Mattresses

Meat scraps

Meat trays (foam)

Medicine bottles (empty/rinsed)

Medicines

Milk bottles

Milk cartons

Mobile phones

Motor oil

Nappies (disposable)

Needles

Newspapers

Office paper

Oils

Ovens

Paint

Paint tins (dry)

Pallets

Paper towel

Pet food tins

Pharmaceuticals

Phonebooks

Picture frames

Sweet wrappers

Syringes

Take away containers (empty and rinsed)

Tea bags

Telephone books

Televisions

Textiles

Timber (small)

Tin cans

Tissues

Toilet paper rolls

Toner cartridges

Tools

Toys

Tree prunings

Twine

Tyres

Vacuum cleaner dust

Vegetable scraps

Vinyl

Washing machines

Waxed cardboard

Waxed paper

Weeds

White goods

Windows

Wine bottles

Wrapping paper

Yoghurt containers

Soft drink bottles

Soft drink cans

Soil

Spectacles

Spirit bottles

Sporting goods

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Steel cans

Steel pots

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plastic plant pots

cardboard boxes (crushed and torn to prevent jamming)

letters, envelopes and advertising material

newspapers and magazines

telephone books and printing paper

aluminium and steel cans, aerosols, clean foil and meal pots

Milk and juice cardboard cartons

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not accepteddo not put these items in your recycling bin

accepted itemsplace these loose in your recycle bin (not in plastic bags)

General household waste

Put these items in your green lid garbage bin (maroon bin in south Melbourne, Middle Park and albert Park)

plastic bags waxed cardboard

nappies

syringes

food waste green waste

broken crockery or pyrex glass

cooking oil chemicals or liquids

Bins must be kerbside by 6am on collection day recyclables must be inside your bins – items outside the bin will not be collected

glass bottles and jars

steel pots and pans

nappies

pyrex

tableware and ceramics

plastic bags

cooking oil chemicals or liquids

syringes

gas cylinders

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Food and green waste can go in the garbage if you can’t compost or book a green waste collection.

bin placement Follow these guidelines to help make collection easy and efficient

Face the wheels of the bins away from the roadside and close to the kerb.

Overfilled bins will not be emptied. They cause street litter and can be too heavy for the trucks to lift. Extra bags and boxes outside the bins will also not be collected. For extra rubbish arrange a hard waste collection.

Everything in your garbage bin ends up in landfill and is buried that day. Before you put and item in the garbage bin make sure it can’t be reused or recycled.

Place the bins at least half a metre away from other bins, power poles, cars and other objects.

Bins must be kerbside by 6am

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please note that collection times in the south melbourne precinct area have changed. Consult the map or contact assist for further information.

Garbage and Recycling in the city of Port Phillip are collected weekly.

The map below shows your collection day.

mondaytuesdayWednesdaythursdayfriday

Port Phillip households are entitled to four free pickups and blocks of flats and apartments are entitled up to six free pickups per year. you must book before you put your rubbish out.

Making a booking – and easy step-by step process

On collection day please ensure all bins are out at kerbside by 6am. Please ensure you return bins to your property within 24 hours of collection.

WeeKly reCyClinG ColleCtion WeeKly Waste ColleCtion hard and Green Waste

ColleCtion map

unaccepted material

• Household rubbish or recyclables

• Rubble• Concrete• Bricks• Excavation or

building material• Industrial or

hazardous waste• Waste motor oil• Asbestos• Liquid waste• Chemicals, • Pesticides or paint• Car batteries• Tyres• Soil• Earth or topsoil• Untied clippings or

prunings or those tied with wire or plastic

• Gas bottles.

not accepteddo not put these items in your recycling bin

03 sort acceptable iteMs Please sort materials into three piles• hardwaste

Including household furniture, mattresses and bed bases, china, window glass and mirrors (securely wrapped and marked ‘glass’) timber (small quantities) carpet and linoleum

• Metal/ whitegoods/ electronic waste Including whitegoods and appliances (remove fridge doors), televisions, computers and monitors, metal baths, empty oil heaters/tanks and hot water systems, empty paint tins (lids off), metal car parts, spouting, scrap metal, tools and equipment

• green waste Grass clippings, weeds, vines, and leaves (boxed). Tree cuttings and prunings bundled and tied with string or twine with a maximum length of 1.5 metres

01 book• call and book before

you put your rubbish out. we will advise you of the collection date

• Telephone 9209 6777 between 9am and 4pm, Monday to Friday to arrange your pickup

• Remember if you don’t book your pickup we can’t collect it.

02 assess and place out• Place materials out no

earlier than the day before collection day.

• Minimum of a half a cubic metre

• Maximum of two cubic metres of hard waste and two cubic green waste (about the size of a single

axle trailer) for houses and up to 6 cubic meters for flats and apartments• Unaccepted material

(listed below) will not be collected

• Maximum length of 1.5 metres for all items

• Maximum 50kg per item

DUMPING RUBBISHis illeGal

to aVoid the fines Make a free booking for collection of your hard and green waste.

$289fine!

FInes FOr IllegallY duMPIng rubbIsH sTarT aT $289. don’t take the risk, book in a Free hard rubbish and/or green waste collection on 03 9209 6777.

alternatively, residents can drop off waste at the Port Phillip resource recovery Centre on the corner of White and boundary streets, south Melbourne.