By Oliver Lees
The Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group (MRSG) is offering a free recycling service to help the community to properly dispose of household items.
With stalls set up at the Woodend and Macedon farmers’ markets, residents can drop off items to the MRSG team such as used batteries, toothbrushes and coffee pods that can’t be recycled in the yellow top bin.
After collecting the items, MRSG hands them over to recycling organisation Terracycle, who facilitates the items recycling through direct relationships with different businesses.
MRSG president David Gormley-O’Brien said everybody can do their part to make sure they’re making the right choices with their waste.
“It’s about closing the loop, whereas typically these items would end up as part of landfill, they can instead be repurposed,” he said.
“It just makes sense to dispose of these items intentionally. When you think about these things, batteries in particular, they’re incredibly corrosive and polluting of the environment.
“I encourage people to go to the MRSG website because there you’ll find what to do with your waste.”
Mr Gormley-O’Brien said residents can also drop off items such as batteries at Macedon Ranges council’s transfer hubs.
Other organisations in the shire, such as the Lancefield Neighbourhood House and the Woodend Library, have a similar service.
Details: mrsg.org.au/
