Recycling

In recent years, vaping has become a growing public health concern, with products frequently marketed to young people and mislabelled to hide their nicotine content. Despite often being promoted as harmless, vaping poses serious risks, so we stepped up efforts to tackle the issue.

For the safety of both visitors and staff, the City of Greater Geelong is extending the current arrangement at the Geelong Resource Recovery Centre, which temporarily stopped accepting garden organics, soil and rubble in 2024.

Garden waste from your garden bin is being transformed into high-quality compost for our region’s public parks, sporting grounds and even local farms.

Woolworths has announced it's rolling out collection units for end-of-life batteries across all of its stores.  

A Geelong collection point is the star of an innovative running and sport shoe recycling program, with more than 3,000 pairs being dropped off in just under 18 months.

The City has partnered with Barwon Water and five other local councils to transform food, garden and commercial organic waste into renewable energy and nutrient-rich products for agriculture.

Permanent and mobile CCTV cameras and patrols are being used by the City of Greater Geelong to target illegal dumping in the community.

The peak body for engineering and public works in Australasia has recognised a project to deliver two bridges in North Geelong for innovation, excellence, and sustainability.

Three contractors based in the G21 region have been selected by council to move bulk household and green organics throughout the municipality until July 2025.

The Council is closing in on its ambitious aim of becoming carbon neutral, with emissions from its operations slashed by more than 50 per cent since June 2017.

The introduction of a bin beautification project and a soft-plastic recycling system for the home are among recommendations put forward by the City of Greater Geelong’s Youth Council in its second report of 2022.