B’inspections starting soon
From this week, we’ll be lifting the lid on Bayside’s recycling habits with our dedicated bin-spectors checking 5,000 randomly selected food and green waste and recycling bins.
With a simple lid lift – the bins will be visually checked to ensure the right things are going in the right bin.
We’ll be leaving feedback, via a bin tag, with tips on how to get your recycling right with reminders of which items can be recycled.
No private or identifiable information is being collected, with all waste and recyclables to be disposed of as per the normal collection process.
Why are we doing this?
When the wrong things are placed in a bin, the bin is considered contaminated. Contamination makes the bin collection service more costly, compromises the sorting of materials, and poses a risk to the staff involved in the sorting process. This is why we regularly conduct bin inspection audits for household recycling and food and green waste bins, to check if we’re disposing of items correctly.
Our bin health checks are a great opportunity to refresh our knowledge and reduce our contamination rates.
Refresh your recycling knowledge
If you are unsure about what goes in what bin, visit our What can go in your bins webpage or
our comprehensive A-Z Waste & Recycling Directory.
What happens to our recycling and food and green waste?
Learn how your recyclables and food and green waste is processed by visiting our what happens to my recycling or food and green waste pages.
