Two months into the Better Sorted Waste services, Council's waste team has reported excellent results from the nine rural glass collection points.
While rural residents do not have a kerbside collection for glass, out-of-towners have responded positively to the rural collections points across the municipality.
The collection points are being used regularly and, apart from a few aluminium dog food cans left in the Natimuk bins, there has been no contamination – that is to say there is only glass in the glass bins.
It's a fantastic result and Council appreciates the rural community's willingness to do the right thing.
Keeping other types of waste out of the glass collection means less time needs to be spent removing contaminates before the glass is crushed in Warracknabeal.
Once processed, the glass returns to Horsham to be used for rural road projects and footpath construction.
The collection points are located at:
- Brimpaen (157 Brimpaen Laharum Road)
- Dadswells Bridge (Briggs Track Dadswells Bridge)
- Jung (Jung Tip Road)
- Laharum (1586 Northern Grampians Road)
- Mount Zero Transfer Station (Wonwondah Dadswells Bridge Road)
- Natimuk (Lake Avenue)
- Pimpinio (Pimpinio Tip Road)
- Toolondo Transfer Station (Telangatuk East Rocklands Road)
- Quantong (497 Lanes Avenue)
- Horsham Transfer Station (Kenny Road).
