Sean Ginnivan, the Waste Facilities Coordinator at the Benalla Rural City spoke to members at the March Meet and Mingle meeting.  Sean’s role is to manage all waste management including kerbside collection & landfill operations.  In addition to this Sean manages all the Recreation Reserves and Facilities within the municipality.

The intent of the presentation was to provide an overview of the kerbside collection, defining what is collected and how it is processed.

Currently Council have a three bin system:

• Green Bin FOGO Organics (Food Organics and Garden Organics),
• Yellow Bin Comingles,
• Red Bin General Waste.

The Green Bin has only been rolled out within the Urban area of the municipality at this stage.

Sean has provided a copy of his presentation  to share - 'Kerbside Collection - presentation to U3A Benalla' (pdf)  ​ We have also been able to access the Contamination Letter and Posters send to offending residents.                        
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Bill Parris

See also:  'Be a good sort - rules for waste collection' on Benalla Rural City's website.

​Shaun Ginnivan, Waste and Facilities Coordinator at Benalla City Council, will be the guest speaker at U3A Meet and Mingle group at 10.00 am on Wednesday 20th of February 2019. 

The topic – ‘Waste Management (green and yellow bins in particular').  We have asked Shaun to provide information to make sure we are ‘getting it right’; to tell us what we are getting correct and what people are incorrectly putting into the bins.

Some questions Shaun might answer include

. Should bottle and jars have the lids removed or left on?
. Is folded or rolled up aluminum foil ok for recycling
. Is there a preferred minimum size of paper put into the yellow bin, e.g. old raffle tickets
. Is it ok to recycle a metal kettle and a plastic kettle?


Bill Parris