Released 30/08/2019
Tuggeranong and Gungahlin residents will be the first Canberrans to enjoy a free household bulky waste collection service from July 2020, before a city wide roll out.
“We’re delivering on our election commitment to provide Canberra households with free bulky waste pick up to make it easier for people to dispose of household waste in a sustainable and accessible way,” Minister Steel said.
“Our guarantee to Canberrans is that we will continue to provide the services a growing city needs.”
“Earlier this year we completed the rollout of green waste bins to all of Canberra a year in advance and under budget. We have started the detailed design of a food organics processing service and I am pleased that next year we will further extend the waste and recycling services available with the rollout of bulky waste collection.”
For the past eight years, only eligible concession card holders have been able to access one free household bulky waste collection per year. We are now extending this popular service to all ACT households over the next four years.
Households will receive a single collection per year for items including furniture and household appliances which will be based on a booking system.
We want to make it easier for Canberrans to get rid of unwanted items in a sustainable way, reducing illegal dumping around the city and in our nature reserves.
The Government is committed to ensuring that our city services are accessible to all Canberrans, including older persons or people with a disability.
“Not everyone has a trailer or large car to take their unwanted items to the Green Shed or the resource centre, and some Canberrans are physically unable to remove bulky items from their homes,” Minister Steel said.
“We will provide an extension service available to residents who are unable to move the bulky goods from their home to the kerb themselves. This service will be provided for a fee, but will be free for eligible concession card holders.”
The collection service is also likely to include a system to separate reusable items and recyclables such as metals and e-waste from landfill waste.
Over the next three months we will be focusing on the detailed design of the service, looking at specifics such as the deployment of a booking system.
Local industry will be briefed on how they can participate in the tender process.
For more information on the bulky waste collection service please visit www.act.gov.au/bulkywaste.
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