Dealing with business waste sustainably
Here are just some ways you can deal with business waste in a sustainable way. For general information on business waste services, visit our business waste collection page.
Electronic waste
The metals and plastic recycle well, while left in landfill, the metals can be damaging. Yarra Council has electronics drop-off points available for residents, and Officeworks will take small-scale electronic waste such as a phones, computers or keyboards. The Mobile Muster website shows the places phones can be dropped off for recycling – including the Salvos in Victoria St. From 1 July 2019, electronic waste will be banned from landfill.
Coffee grounds
Yarra has a very healthy café culture, and coffee grounds are a useful form of organic waste. A medium-sized cafe can easily stop 3 tonnes of coffee grounds a year from ending up in landfill. That’s stopping 4.2 tonnes of methane gas being released into our atmosphere.
Here are some suggestions for how to deal with coffee ground waste:
- Have a worm farm. Worm farms can take a small amount of coffee grounds.
- Compost bins like coffee grounds.When adding them, a mix of two thirds coffee grounds to one third leaves is a good mix.
- The Collingwood Children’s Farm accepts coffee ground waste.There’s a limit to how much they can mix in, so contact them directly to find out more.
- There are services such as Reground, which charge a small fee to pick up your coffee ground waste. Reground redistributes the coffee waste where it’s needed - to community and home gardens and farmers.
Get your recycling right
Did you know that soft plastics can be recycled, but not in your normal recycling bin? And that it’s okay to put a greasy pizza box in the recycling bin? Visit our recycling page for detailed information on what goes into your business’s recycling bin.
Spread the word on good recycling
If you’d like to inspire your customers, clients or staff to get recycling right, Yarra Council has free recycling posters available for you to download and print for your business.
Here are just some ways you can deal with business waste in a sustainable way. For general information on business waste services, visit our business waste collection page.
Electronic waste
The metals and plastic recycle well, while left in landfill, the metals can be damaging. Yarra Council has electronics drop-off points available for residents, and Officeworks will take small-scale electronic waste such as a phones, computers or keyboards. The Mobile Muster website shows the places phones can be dropped off for recycling – including the Salvos in Victoria St. From 1 July 2019, electronic waste will be banned from landfill.
Coffee grounds
Yarra has a very healthy café culture, and coffee grounds are a useful form of organic waste. A medium-sized cafe can easily stop 3 tonnes of coffee grounds a year from ending up in landfill. That’s stopping 4.2 tonnes of methane gas being released into our atmosphere.
Here are some suggestions for how to deal with coffee ground waste:
- Have a worm farm. Worm farms can take a small amount of coffee grounds.
- Compost bins like coffee grounds.When adding them, a mix of two thirds coffee grounds to one third leaves is a good mix.
- The Collingwood Children’s Farm accepts coffee ground waste.There’s a limit to how much they can mix in, so contact them directly to find out more.
- There are services such as Reground, which charge a small fee to pick up your coffee ground waste. Reground redistributes the coffee waste where it’s needed - to community and home gardens and farmers.
Get your recycling right
Did you know that soft plastics can be recycled, but not in your normal recycling bin? And that it’s okay to put a greasy pizza box in the recycling bin? Visit our recycling page for detailed information on what goes into your business’s recycling bin.
Spread the word on good recycling
If you’d like to inspire your customers, clients or staff to get recycling right, Yarra Council has free recycling posters available for you to download and print for your business.
