Recycling tricky household items just got easier

Mornington Peninsula Shire has committed to sending zero waste to landfill by 2030, so we’re now introducing a new and free recycling service for those hard-to-recycle objects that can’t go in your kerbside recycling bins.

New recovery stations will be located at Mornington, Rosebud, Hastings and Somerville libraries, and all residents are encouraged to take advantage of them during library opening hours. The following items can be disposed of free of charge:

• Cables;

• Mobile phones and cameras;

• DVDs, CDs, floppy disks and cases;

• Videos, cassettes and cases;

• X-rays;

• Light globes; and,

• Fluorescent tubes.

You’ll find the recovery stations at Hastings Library, 7 High St, Hastings; Rosebud Library, McDowell St, Rosebud; Mornington Library, Vancouver St, Mornington; and Somerville Library, 1085 Frankston-Flinders Rd, Somerville.

The recycled items will be collected by social enterprise Green Collect and taken to its complex in Braybrook to start their transformation journey. Green Collect is dedicated to keeping these items out of landfill and within the circular economy through reuse, remake, and recycle. Sixty per cent of items get re-used and 35 per cent of items are dismantled into materials for recycling.

The new stations are designed to accept household amounts only and cannot accommodate large quantities, so please take large quantities and bulkier items to our Resource Recovery Centres. To learn more, visit mornpen.vic.gov.au/recoverystations

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