All Victorians to get four wheelie bins to enable recycling of soft plastics and pizza boxes

Victoria will be the first state to roll out the same bins to every household: red for general rubbish, green for food and garden waste, yellow for plastics and purple for glass. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

All Victorian households will soon have four wheelie bins at home and be able to recycle pizza boxes and soft plastics, as part of the state government’s $515m reform of the recycling system.

Victoria’s environment minister, Lily D’Ambrosio, was on Thursday joined by her federal counterpart, Tanya Plibersek, to announce the framework for the four-bin system, as well as a joint $14.3m worth of funding for recycling projects in Victoria.