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Waste and recycling

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Get ready for your FOGO and glass bins

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Ballarat Waste and Recycling app

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Bin collection at your home

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Your general waste bin

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Your recycle bin

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Your Green waste bin

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Food waste and compost

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Glass recycling

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Leaf collection

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Transfer Station

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Hard waste

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Electronic waste

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Syringes and sharps

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Asbestos and mould

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Ballarat Soft Plastics Collection Pilot Program

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The Phoenix

25 Armstrong Street South
Ballarat, Vic, Australia

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The City of Ballarat acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land we live and work on, the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways. We pay our respects to their Elders past, prese​nt and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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