Bayside City Council using ‘bin police’ to check residents are recycling properly

Bayside City Council officers have been seen snooping through residents’ bins in the middle of the night as they crackdown on people recycling incorrectly.

Residents in Bayside City Council may find strangers rifling through their rubbish over the next couple of weeks, with a bin audit taking place.
The council confirmed reports that people were going through residents’ bins and examining their contents.

Some Brighton residents have taken to social media to report their shock at council officers checking bins at 2.30am.

“That’s our rates at work,” one person commented.

“The bin audit is occurring over a couple of weeks, and covers our kerbside general waste, recycling and food and green waste bins,” a council spokesman said in a statement.

Bayside City Council are checking residents are recycling property during a bin audit. Picture: Facebook

“A random selection of bins within Bayside is audited with the contents sorted and categorised, to better understand the composition of our waste. This assists in understanding what the average Bayside bin looks like.

“The project is common practice among councils to provide accurate information on community recycling behaviours to inform our recycling and waste education campaigns and increase our diversion from landfill.”

The spokesman said the bin audits would be carried out between 6am and 5pm on weekdays.

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