Victorians are great recyclers
Victorians are great recyclers and they’re proud of it, but research shows they’re not correctly sorting their household waste resulting in contamination.

Contamination
Contamination is a major issue in household recycling and markets for recyclables demand ‘cleaner’ high quality recycling, which means households need to reduce contamination in their recycling bins. Household recycling contamination is a cost to councils and therefore the community.

Need for behaviour change
Industry and councils have been asking for help and information to reduce contamination to increase the quality of recycling to support the viability of the sector.

Know Your Recycling
The recycling.vic.gov.au website provides information to take the confusion out of recycling, including:
• ‘Can I recycle this?’ item search tool
• Why your recycling matters
• Where your recycling goes

The Victorian Government is banning e-waste in landfills from July 2019. This campaign is about the safe management of hazardous materials found in e-waste, and enabling greater recovery of the valuable materials.

Find out more on the Sustainability Victoria website.

Victorians have taken the challenge to avoid single-use shopping bags. A ban will come into place by the end of 2019, with a supporting plastic pollution plan to prioritise actions to reduce other types of plastic pollution.

Find out more on the Sustainability Victoria website.

Love Food Hate Waste is a campaign that aims to raise awareness about avoidable food waste from Victorian households. Love Food Hate Waste is brought to you by The Victorian Government and delivered by Sustainability Victoria.

Find out how you can love food and hate waste.

Delivered by Sustainability Victoria, TAKE2 is the state’s collective climate change program supporting individuals, government, business and other organisations to help our state achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

Find out how you can get involved in the TAKE2 project.

Sustainability Victoria's Waste Data Service collects and stores waste and recycling data from a number of sources and regularly produces statewide waste, recycling and litter data reports.

Find out more on the Sustainability Victoria website.

Better practice guidance is critical to the operation and management of resource recovery centres, to divert materials from landfill and ensure the safe management and handling of recovered materials and residual waste.

Find out more on the Sustainability Victoria website.

Illegal dumping can threaten wildlife and can also lead to long-term contamination of land, waterways and groundwater.

Find out more on the epa website.

A number of government and non-government entities administer grants and funding for programs.

Find out more about upcoming grants and funding.