Event funding for local not-for-profit groups
Community Grants Program
Published on 31 May 2023
Two months into the Better Sorted Waste services, Council’s waste team has reported excellent results from the nine rural glass collection points. While rural residents do not have a kerbside collection for glass, out-of-towners have responded positively to the rural collections points across the municipality. The collection points are being used regularly and, apart from a few aluminium dog food cans left in the Natimuk bins, there has been no contamination – that is to say there is only glass in the glass bins. It’s a fantastic result and Council appreciates the rural community’s willingness to do the right thing. Keeping other types of waste out of the glass collection means less time needs to be spent removing contaminates before the glass is crushed in Warracknabeal. Once processed, the glass returns to Horsham to be used for rural road projects and footpath construction. The collection points are located at: