Changes are afoot to the Mornington Peninsula’s kerbside collection program, but there’s no cause for alarm: Mornington Peninsula Shire is taking steps to avoid any confusion over which bins to put out and when.
In response to the State Government’s Recycling Victoria policy, the shire is currently transitioning to new bin lid colours, which are being standardised across the state. The blue recycling bin lids will be changed to yellow, and the dark green rubbish bin lids to red. There will be no change to the food and garden organics bins, so your green lid bin will remain for food and garden organics.
“The transition to the new bin lid colours will be gradual,” the shire said in a statement, “with damaged or new bins being issued in the new colours to begin with. This means while we transition to the new standardised bin lids, your bin lid colour may be different to your neighbour’s. These changes will not affect bin collections, how you dispose of your items, or the service in any way.”
To make the process easier, the shire has a new collection calendar you can download and stick on your fridge. Covering the Peninsula’s two collection zones, it also includes the schedule for weekly food/green waste and recycling collections over summer. To download the calendar and find out which day to put your bins out, simply enter your address in the shire’s handy ‘find my bin day’ tool at mornpen.vic.gov.au/findyourbinday
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