The City of Stirling is the only local government in Western Australia that provides a single bin recycling service to its residents. This innovative recycling system is effective and user-friendly, allowing residents to dispose of all waste in one bin and enabling the City to recycle at least 65 per cent of household waste handled by the recycling plant.
The system is more efficient than conventional multi bin services, as the onus of waste separation is on the City and its contractors, not the residents.
Since implementing the single bin recycling system in November 2001, the City’s waste recycling has increased from 14 per cent of the total household waste up to a high of 68 per cent.
In response to the success of the single bin recycling system, the City of Stirling has re-branded its rubbish trucks to ‘Recycling Trucks’. The branding is designed to increase awareness of the City’s recycling initiatives and reinforce that with single bin recycling, every waste collection vehicle is a ‘Recycling Truck’.
In addition to the single bin recycling system, the City of Stirling also provides a diverse range of other recycling and waste disposal options, including four verge collections per year, recycling of green waste into mulches and other garden products and the safe disposal of hazardous household waste including dry cell batteries.
Furthermore the City of Stirling, under the Western Australian State Government Resource Recovery Rebate Scheme, accounted for 22 per cent of all tonnes recycled by participating local governments in the scheme.
