‘Halve Waste - reduce, reuse, recycle’ is a public awareness and education campaign developed to engage the whole community in efforts to reduce waste and increase recycling in the region.
For more information on how you can reduce, reuse, recycle and dispose of your waste in Greater Hume visit the Halve Waste website www.halvewaste.com.au (then click on Greater Hume Council logo on front page).
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Community Recycling Station
Residents can now drop off the following household problem waste items for FREE disposal:
- Mobile phones
- Household batteries
- Flouro light globes
- Smoke detectors
Only household quantities of the above materials will be accepted.
Dangerous goods and items other than those listed will not be accepted.
By separating your problem wastes and taking them to your local recycling station, you are helping to improve recycling, reducing waste to landfill and looking after your local environment.
Recycle Mate is a mobile phone app and supporting education program that is working to help remove the confusion around what can and can not be recycled and where.
Recycle Mate has comprehensively catalogued each council’s recycling system and non-kerbside disposal options, to provide quick access to localised information to help people recycle wherever they are in Australia.
Recycle Mate will give users the ability to photograph an item or do a word search of an extensive item catalogue to find out where to recycle or dispose of that item either in their local council bin system or elsewhere.
Getting involved is quick and easy:
- Download Recycle Mate - available on the App Store for iPhones and Google Play for Androids.
- Click on 'Recycle Soldier'.
- Hit "Let's go'.
- Enter the name of the item you will be taking photos of.
- Position the item in the centre of the frame and take a photo or multiple photos from different angles.
- Hit 'Submit Photos' - over 100 images can be uploaded in one easy upload.
For more information on Recycle Mate go to recyclemate.com.au.