WE WELCOMED SHANI WOOD

Our speaker this week was Shani Wood, Holdfast Bay Council

At our meeting on 19th February, Shani Wood from the Holdfast Bay Council spoke about the council’s waste management projects.

As a resident of the City of Holdfast Bay, you can access a wide range of services for reusing, recycling or disposing of unwanted household items and materials. Each rateable household in Holdfast Bay is entitled to one 140L red lid garbage bin, one 240L yellow lid recycling bin and one 240L green lid organics bin. Additional services can be arranged with a private waste contractor.

The three bin system, allows for residents to use a weekly general waste collection and fortnightly recycling and green waste collections (alternating weeks for recycling and green waste). Items that can go in the recycling yellow lid bin include: paper and cardboard products, tins, cans, glass bottles and jars and hard plastics containers.

Anything that grows can go in the green organic bin; All organic matter (such as food, grass clippings, flowers and plants) and contaminated paper products (such as dirty paper towel and tissues) can go in the green bin.

Households with a kerbside bin service are entitled to one kitchen organics basket and roll of 150 compostable bags to assists with disposal of food scraps into the green organic bin. To have a basket delivered to your property please call customer service on 8229 9999 or email mail@holdfast.sa.gov.au.

For information on recycling e-waste and other goods go to https://www.holdfast.sa.gov.au/