Take a tour and get on board with recycling

Canungra's waste and resource recovery facility

Scenic Rim Regional Council is celebrating National Recycling week in November with guided tours of its waste and resource recovery facilities at Bromelton, Boonah and Canungra. 

The free tours aim to reduce the waste disposed of in landfill and boost recycling by showing Scenic Rim residents how valuable resources are recovered from household waste. 

Mayor Tom Sharp, the Scenic Rim's representative on the Council of Mayors Waste Working Group, said the walking tours offered a unique insight into Council's waste operations and the recovery of recyclable materials. 

"This is a great way to get members of our community to think more carefully about recycling, which will help reduce the volume of waste ending up in landfill," he said. 

"The guided tours by Council's Waste Education Officer will show the range of materials recovered and answer any questions visitors to our facilities may have about recycling." 

One-hour tours will run from 9.30am to 10.30am at Bromelton on Tuesday 12 November, Boonah on Wednesday 13 November and Canungra on Thursday 14 November. 

Tickets can be booked online at scenicrim.qld.gov.au/waste-resource-recovery-centre-tours and places are filling fast. 

National Recycling Week, from 11 to 17 November 2024, aims to raise public awareness of the importance of keeping valuable resources out of landfill which also benefits the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 

The week is bookended by two weekends of the Garage Sale Trail, on 9 to 10 November and 16 to 17 November, when some 400,000 Australians are expected to cash in on more than one million unwanted items. 

"From Aratula to Tamborine Mountain, Scenic Rim residents have already begun promoting their sales for free on the Garage Sale Trail page on Council's website," Cr Sharp said. 

"As buyers and sellers on the Garage Sale Trail, Scenic Rim residents in recent years have achieved impressive results in finding new homes for thousands of items which might otherwise have ended up in landfill.  

"This year's Garage Sale Trail is another great opportunity to clear out, cash in and connect with others. 

"What you may consider to be trash could well be that certain something someone has been searching for."