CHANGES to weekly bin collections are expected to be assessed by Kingston Council sometime in the next year.
Knox Council caused a stir last week by announcing that it would only pick up rubbish bins fortnightly from mid-next year. It will pick up food and garden waste bins weekly instead. Bayside Council made the same switch last month.
Kingston Council has confirmed that it is planning to undertake a review of its weekly bin collections within the next 12 months. For the time being it is not planning on making changes.
“There are no plans to change the waste collection frequency within Kingston at this time. The City of Kingston already provides a Food and Garden waste collection service to nearly 50,000 properties that is diverting approximately 3000 tonnes of food material from landfill annually,” council CEO Peter Bean said. “We are proposing to undertake a review of the kerbside waste service in the next 12 months and will consider what other councils are delivering and if this would be suitable for Kingston.”
Frankston Council mayor Nathan Conroy said that weekly bin collections in Frankston also remain unchanged “at this stage”.
“Any changes to the household kerbside collection services will involve engagement with the community as part of the development of our waste circularity master plan,” he said.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 3 August 2022
