Randwick residents divert over 30,000 kilograms of tricky-to-recycle items from landfill using free home recycling service
Residents in the City of Randwick have taken recycling to new heights with the help of an on-demand home collection service for problem waste. Randwick City Council partnered with Sydney-based startup RecycleSmart in September 2019 to offer free recycling subscriptions to local residents. The service known as a ‘Power Pickup’ offers all residential addresses in the Randwick LGA on-demand collection of tricky-to-recycle items: items that are recyclable, but cannot be recycled when disposed of in any of the household bins (i.e. soft plastics, e-waste, clothing, and misfits such as batteries and bulbs). In the month of May, residents surpassed the…
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