NOVEMBER 2022

Hello! Welcome to the November edition of the Word on Waste, a monthly newsletter about reducing waste and recycling right from the Western Metropolitan Regional Council.

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It’s National Recycling Week

Recycle the five

This week, 7th - 13th November, is 2022’s National Recycling Week! Although recycling is great, binning less is better, and reducing packaging means your bin will be lighter. When you are recycling at home, remember to only recycle the five - paper, cardboard, cans, plastic and glass (both bottles and jars) - and keep it rinsed, loose with the lids off. You’ll be a GREAT Sort.

Visit www.recycleright.wa.gov.au for an easy A-Z guide for your bins, or here for a quick downloadable guide.

Be a GREAT Sort

1m3 free greenwaste disposal

For all our Member Council residents, we have a special offer for you! This week only, bring up to 1m3 of greenwaste and pay no disposal fee. Simply bring proof of address (a drivers licence or rates notice is sufficient) and your load of greenwaste*. Your greenwaste will be turned into mulch available free of charge all year-round for your garden.

* anything over 1m3 will be charged at the standard greenwaste rates.

Learn more

Exciting Upcoming Events

Festive Food and Gifting workshop

Spice up your Christmas gifts! Come to our workshop and learn all about decorating, gifting, and food preparation while keeping waste in mind. We’ve organised a personal tour of Clean Pantry in the Town of Mosman Park, to help make thoughtful, low waste gifts for your loved ones.

Saturday 3rd December, 10am-12pm

Only $5 plus booking fee

Book and learn more

West Metro Recycling Centre tour

Discover the recycling possibilities at the West Metro Recycling Centre, by attending our tour and learning all the ins and outs of your local recycling centre! We collect a range of items for recycling, to reduce waste from landfill and dispose of them safely where needed.

Saturday 26 November, 9am-11am

Only $5 plus booking fee

Book and learn more

National Asbestos Awareness Week is coming

Planning some renovations or home improvement projects? If you need to remove and dispose of asbestos, make sure you do things the right way. For National Asbestos Awareness Week (21-27 November), we’re spreading the word about how and where to dispose of asbestos safely. Remember, asbestos cannot go in your kerbside bin or bulk waste collections. Prepare it appropriately to avoid posing a risk to human health and the environment, and take it to the West Metro Recycling Centre.

To keep yourself and your family safe, it’s strongly recommended that you call in a professional in to help locate, manage and remove asbestos safely.

Find out who to contact about asbestos

Book Verge Valet™ in advance for Christmas

Verge Valet™ is the convenient bulk and/or greenwaste collection service on your timeline. As you tidy up for your Christmas celebrations, keep in mind that there will be no Verge Valet™ collections between 23 December 2022 and 6 January 2023, as the Verge Valet Collection Team will be taking a well-deserved break. The good news is that you can book 8 weeks in advance, and bookings are already open for late December and early January.

Got items that still have life in them, but no longer for you? Visit our How to Reuse and Recycle Unwanted Items, so you can rehome what you can and Verge Valet™ what you can’t.

Verge Valet™ Councils and booking info

Keep toothpaste tubes out of your recycling bin

Even if the packaging and display in-store says they’re recyclable, toothpaste tubes cannot be recycled through your yellow-lidded recycling bin in WA.

Instead, you can squeeze out any remaining product and bring them to our Community Recycling Hub at the West Metro Recycling Centre (free for residents of our Member and Participating Councils).

Otherwise, please keep them in your red general waste bin to avoid contaminating the recycling stream.

It’s a wild world of waste out there! What waste issues would you like to hear more about in this newsletter? Tell us here.

The Western Metropolitan Regional Council manages waste wisely for the Towns of Claremont, Cottesloe, Mosman Park, Shire of Peppermint Grove and City of Subiaco. Town of Cambridge is a participating council.