Highlands Regional Waste Management Group

• About HRWMG
  • Directors
  • Advisors
  • Annual Reports
  • Business Plans
  • Regional Waste Management Plan
  • Staff
• Education
  • Business
  • Events
  • Litter
  • ResourceSmart AuSSI Vic Schools
  • Schools
  • School Success Stories
  • Waste Wise
• Projects
  • BlinkyBulb
  • ChemClear
  • Detox Your Home
  • Dob in a Dumpsite
  • drumMUSTER
  • FluoroCycle
  • Get it Sorted!
  • Kerbside Pride
  • Western Hwy Roadside Litter Prevention Campaign
• Research + Reports
  • Benchmarking for Regional Litter Reduction
  • Community Perceptions
  • Kerbside Garbage Bin Audit
  • Organics Waste Reduction & Recovery Scoping Study
  • Prospective Organic Processing Sites
  • Resource Recovery Centre Audit
• Recyclable Products
  • Batteries
  • BBQ Gas Bottles
  • Car bodies & parts
  • CFL globes & Fluorescent tubes
  • Clean excavated soil
  • Clothing
  • Concrete/bricks/building materials
  • E-waste
  • Glass
  • Green Organics
  • Mattresses
  • Metals
  • Mobile Phones
  • Motor Oil
  • Paint
  • Paper/Cardboard
  • Plastics
  • Printer toners & cartridges
  • TV's
  • Timber
  • White goods
• Recycling Locations
  • City of Ballarat
  • Central Goldfields Shire
  • Golden Plains Shire
  • Hepburn Shire
  • Moorabool Shire
  • Pyrenees Shire

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Glass is 100% recyclable.

Recycling glass saves about 70% of the energy it takes to make glass from raw materials.

Glass can be recycled over and over, keeping the same quality every time.

Recycled glass can be made into

• new bottles and jars
• abrasives
• as a substitute for sand in concrete