Celebrate National Recycling Week (November 13-19) by brushing up on your recycling knowledge and dropping off your waste at our new recycling hubs.
Recycling helps recover valuable resources from the waste stream and protects the environment from harmful waste.
The easiest way to start recycling is by knowing what goes in the kerbside recycling bin. It’s just five types of items – paper, cardboard, glass (unbroken), hard plastic, and aluminium and steel tins.
We’re also working to help our staff and community to recycle and recover more tricky items of waste. We’ve installed new recycling hubs for items that shouldn’t be placed in kerbside bins.
Household batteries, coffee pods, aerosol cans, mobile phones and devices, and CFL bulbs can be dropped off at the Admin Building, MARC, Mandurah Library, Lakelands Library and Billy Dower Youth Centre. Waste from these hubs will be collected and taken safely through to the appropriate recycling program where valuable materials are recovered and recycled.
These hubs are part of our bigger-picture plans to encourage and empower our staff and community to reduce our environmental footprint and adopt more environmentally-friendly waste behaviours. Learn more about the City’s Waste Education Plan (2022-2025), endorsed earlier this year.
Recycling is not just about throwing things away. We want to get waste in the right place, but sustainably managing our waste also means looking at the source and considering whether there is a more sustainable option that you can ‘recycle’ at home. Gifting, donating, composting, or reusing can all be ways of recycling.
Learn more about waste and recycling in Mandurah and National Recycling Week.
