Photo (Above): Conveyor belt at a Materials Recycling Facility (MRF)

20th May: MRF Tour, 2.30pm Wangaratta Recycling Centre, 9-15 Kerr St, Wangaratta. Bookings Essential. Contact Heather Potter on (03) 5721 3341.

27th May: MRF Tour, 2.30pm Wangaratta Recycling Centre, 9-15 Kerr St, Wangaratta. Bookings Essential. Contact Heather Potter on (03) 5721 3341.

5th June: North East Schools Environmental Roadshow, Wangaratta. SEED website launched. Invited Schools only.

9th July: Murray Litter Taskforce Meeting, Cobram Civic Centre.

10th July: NevRwaste Board Meeting, Wangaratta Government Centre.

FACT: one million Australian children go to school everyday without breakfast or to bed without dinner.

However, Australians still throw away about $2.9 billion worth of fresh food, $630 million of uneaten take-away and $241 million worth of frozen food every year!!! Click here for tips to reduce your food waste.

Make a reusable teabag using material scraps.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990

• 24th May: Detox Your Home collection, Bright Council Depot, Chruchill Ave 8.00 - 11.00am.
• Mobile Muster drop-off points now at Shire Office in Bright and Mt Beauty and Myrtleford Libraries.
• Planet Ark Cartridge Recycling drop-off points now at Shire Office, library and Post Office in Bright, and Mt Beauty and Myrtleford libraries.
• Plastic bag recycling introduced at Bright IGA Supermarket.
• Please visit website.

• 13th May: MRF Virtual tour, 5.30pm Community Care Centre, 45 Coster St Benalla.
• 21st May: DrumMUSTER collection, Benalla Landfill, Old Farnley Rd.
• New surrounds and signage being installed, and cardboard/paper metal cages being replaced at recycling depots.
• Rural hardwaste collections scheduled for May and June.
• Presented Bronze Waste Wise certificate to SP Ausnet Benalla.
• Please visit website.

• Recycling crushed concrete.
• Participating in 'Save the Snow - Say NO to Plastic Bags' campaign.
• Green waste collections - native plant materials were chipped and composted to be used in rehabilitation works.
• Please visit website.

• 24th May: Detox Your Home collection, Beechworth Shire Depot, Radcliff Rd 1.30 - 4.30pm.
• DrumMuster collections, Rutherglen Transfer Station on the first Friday of each month between 1.00 and 5.00pm for quantities of less than 20. For any quantity above this, please contact Indigo Shire Council.
• Council is supporting the Mobile Muster, mobile phone recycling campaign.
• Household green waste collection service now available to rural residents with a weekly waste collection service. Contact Council for more details.
• Please visit website.

• Working with Goughs Bay Area Progress Association to man skips at recycle drop off sites on busy weekend to curb illegal dumping.
• Working with local CFA and DrumMuster to co-ordinate next DrumMuster in May 2008.
• Council offices, Depot and Maternal and Child Health Centre received Silver Waste Wise Certification.
• Involved in Recycling Annie education programs at local events.
• Please visit website.

• Participating in the 'Save the Snow - Say NO to Plastic Bags' campaign.
• Continued work on the "Don’t Be a Tosser" cigarette butt litter campaign.
• Resort Management offices became Bronze Waste Wise Certified and are implementing action plan.
• Offices also joined Eco-buy in October 2007 and are setting up a green purchasing system.
• Public Place Recycling extended on Mt Stirling.
• Trialling Worm Farm to manage organic waste from the Resort Management offices this winter.
• Please visit website.

• Trialling space saving twin bin systems in apartments during winter to improve the service and recovery of recyclable materials on the mountain.
• Participating in the 'Save the Snow - Say NO to plastic bags' campaign.
• Developing stickers to be put in kitchens throughout the Resort encouraging people to dispose of their cooking oil in th bin once it has set rather than down the sink.
• Please visit website.

• 30th August: Detox Your Home collection, Corryong Council Depot, Sugarloaf Rd 8.00 - 9.30am.
• Commenced work on rehabilitation of the Walwa Landfill (reshaping).
• Completed slippage repair at the Bethanga landfill.
• Monitoring bores and surface waters at some local landfills.
• Hard rubbish collections for east of shire.
• Scrap steel collection by Norstar Steel Recyclers.
• Please visit website.

• “Leave your worries behind not your litter” information packs were distributed to Wangaratta, Myrtleford and Bright information centres during the easter period.
• Bowser landfill – new cell 4 construction plans out for tender.
• Concrete crushed at Bowser Landfill and Wangaratta Transfer station.
• The Wangaratta Government Centre received Silver Waste Wise certification.
• Permanent DrumMuster facility now located at the Wangaratta Transfer Station. Bookins essential, phone (03) 5722 0888.
• Please Visit website.

• 19th May: Opening of permanent Detox Your Home facility at Wodonga Transfer Facility.
• Council Offices received Bronze Waste Wise certification.
• Used cooking oil now accepted at the Transfer Station - no charge.
• Trial period to commence soon for separation of non-ferrous metals from the waste metal stream.
• Slab has been poured for a re-sale shop at the Transfer Station.
• Please visit website.