Randwick has undertaken a diverse range of projects to respond to the waste challenge facing our society. Like many developed countries, our affluent lifestyle has provided Australians and Sydneysiders with an abundance of choice on everyday products we use and potentially discard.

This consumption of resources, often reflected as a calculation of our Ecological Footprint, has been measured and shows our society is consuming the amount of resources equivalent to 3 to 4 Planet Earth's each year. With only one Planet Earth available to all of us, this shows how important it is for Randwick, and all Local Councils to help their communities 'reduce, re-use, recycle and recover' the materials that are often thrown out as rubbish and eventually end up in landfills across the country.

Randwick has additional projects aimed at improving the level of recycling from our schools, homes and businesses; recovering the waste items put out in our red-lid rubbish bins or kerbsides as part of schedule or on-call clean-up collections and the different types of organic wastes placed into our separate green-lid garden organics bins.

These projects are often funded through NSW Government programs introduced to help Local Councils work with their communities and businesses to recover what was previously covered as waste and develop the material as a new resource that continues to re-use material rather than simply dispose of it.

Randwick City Council waste reduction programs

A full list of projects funded and implemented by Council will be available shortly.