All Victorian households will be able to recycle soft plastics at home as part of the State Government’s new $515m recycling reforms and four-wheelie bin system and fucking finally!!! No more creepy bag overflowing with soft plastics lurking under my kitchen sink or in my laundry, no more lugging a pillow-sized sack to the supermarket to be recycled every month. I can finally have my dignity.
Well, I will have my dignity by 2030 when the scheme is fully rolled out.
Vic households will be given four beautiful wheelie bins for their trash — reminiscent of successful house waste management schemes in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe.
The red lid bins will be for landfill, green for food scraps and garden waste, yellow for all plastics, metal and cardboard and purple for glass. Soiled food containers including pizza boxes, which are infamously unrecyclable due to the greasy patches and cheese stuck to the bottom, will also be able to be recycled in the yellow bin by 2030.
Seven local government areas in Vic already have the new four-wheelie-bin system and a couple more will be rolled out next year.
Victoria’s environment minister Lily D’Ambrosio made the announcement on Thursday with Federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek. It’s an election year for Victoria so they’ve really wheeled out the big guns.
“We’re the first state in Australia to roll out the same bins to every household, and the first to include soft plastics and pizza boxes in those bins,” D’Ambrosio said.
