Valley set to launch recycling

RECYCLING bins are coming to the Lockyer Valley.

RECYCLING bins are coming to the Lockyer Valley.

The Lockyer Valley Regional Council has announced the development of a two-bin rubbish collection system will be put out to tender this year.

Lockyer Valley Mayor Steve Jones said he hoped the tender would be awarded before the end of the year.

"Council's vision is to have rubbish and recycling bins collected from every property in the Valley," he said.

Before the recycling collection program comes into effect across the Valley residents of Mulgowie and surrounding areas will see an interim single-rubbish bin collection put in place.

The Mulgowie area is without any rubbish service after a three-bin dump was removed by the then-Laidley Shire Council.

Cr Jones said the Lockyer Valley council was in negotiations with its waste contractor to provide the service.

The Mulgowie and communities residents will receive a single-bin collection system before the middle of the year.

Cr Jones said Mulgowie would come in line with the rest of the Valley as the two-bin waste system was up and running.

Residents of the Mulgowie area have had to take their rubbish to a refuse station in Laidley Heights since the removal of their own local tip by the Laidley council prior to amalgamation.

Currently only a limited number of residents in townships in the previous Gatton Shire Council area are provided with recycling services.

Residents of the Valley can drop of rubbish to be recycled at the council's dumps across the region.

The implementation of the recycling bins has been put in place after the State Government's waste levy, designed to increase recycling, came into effect in December last year.

Originally published as Valley set to launch recycling