A NEW recycling service has been started for such items as cables, mobile phones and cameras, DVDs, CDs, floppy disks and cases, videos, cassettes and cases, x-rays, light globes and fluorescent tubes.
The move is part of Mornington Peninsula Shire commitment to sending no waste to landfill by 2030.
Recovery stations for the previously hard-to-recycle items will be located at Mornington, Rosebud and Hastings and Somerville libraries.
The items will be collected by social enterprise Green Collect and taken to Braybook centre to be recycled.
Green Collect says 60 per cent of Items get re-used while 35 per cent are dismantled for recycling.
The new stations are designed to accept domestic amounts and large quantities and bulkier items should be taken to the shire’s resource recovery centres.
Details: mornpen.vic.gov.au/recoverystations
First published in the Southern Peninsula News – 23 August 2022
