Kerbside Recycling Rewards Program

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Are you among our region’s best when it comes to sorting your waste?

You could be in line to win a special prize pack as part of our Recycling Rewards Program!

The program aims to recognise and celebrate residents who are using their kerbside recycling services correctly.

Other aims include:

Highlighting the importance of waste diversion
Raising awareness around correct bin use and circular economy
Lowering contamination rates in kerbside recycling and organics bins
Decreasing the amount of recycling and organics in the rubbish bin
Celebrating good waste management practises
Recognising community members doing the right thing
Recognising good kerbside bin placement
Providing waste education

Our latest round of inspections is coming to the following locations on the following dates:

Week 1

Date	Streams	Street addresses	Area	Township
Monday 2 March 2026	Food and Gardens Organics and Recycling	Kelvin Avenue, Brown Street, San Mateo Avenue and Hunter Street	1	Mildura
Tuesday 3 March 2026	Food and Gardens Organics and Recycling	Barraclough Way, Bottams Street and Bene Vista Boulevard	1	Mildura
Wednesday 4 March 2026	Food and Gardens Organics and Recycling	Kiewa Avenue and La Trobe Avenue	1	Red Cliffs
Thursday 5 March 2026	Food and Gardens Organics and Recycling	Commercial Street, Park Street and Chaffey Street	1	Merbein
Friday 6 March 2026	Food and Gardens Organics and Recycling	Fifteenth Street, Lochhead Avenue and Armagh Crecent	1	Irymple

Week 2

Date	Collection type/s	Street addresses	Area	Township
Monday 9 March 2026	NA	Public Holiday – no inspections	NA	Mildura
Tuesday 10 March 2026	Recycling/FOGO	Sturt Court, Wills Court and Burke Court	2	Mildura
Wednesday 11 March 2026	Recycling/FOGO	Fourteenth Street, Eulinga Drive and Walnut Avenue	2	Mildura
Thursday 12 March 2026	Recycling/FOGO	Eleventh Street, Hillcrest Close and Massey Close	2	Mildura
Friday 13 March 2026	Recycling/FOGO	Washington Drive, Canberra Avenue, Rural Drive, Wanera Way and Ranger Court	2	Mildura

FAQs

How does the Kerbside Recycling Rewards program work?

The program will focus on the organics and recycling streams from residential collections.

Our Waste team will conduct visual inspections of residential bins in a selected area just prior to collection. We’ll be looking at the top of the bin, with no physical contact to be made to any of the waste to protect the health and safety of the inspecting officer(s).

Council will post which areas have been selected to take part in inspections on our website and social media prior.

Depending on the outcome of the inspection, a sticker will be put on the bin informing the resident on if they did or didn’t have contamination in the bin.

What will we focus on?

For this round we will focus on the following:

Recycling

Bagged rubbish and recycling
Soft plastics

Organics

Plastic bags

Eligibility

Any residents within the MRCC municipality area who receive a kerbside collection is eligible to be entered into the program. Council staff will be exempt from winning any prize packs.

Candidates will be identified by using the following criteria:

No contamination within their organics or recycling bins
No current removal of organics or recycling bins
No unauthorised bins
No overflowing bins

What can I win?

Two winners will be selected by the inspecting officers across the two-week competition.

Winners will receive the following prize pack that focuses on waste minimisation:

1x Urban coffee cup
1x Flexo water bottle
1x Recycled Plastic & Wheat Straw Lunch Box
1 x winner’s sticker to affix to the winner’s bin
1x reusable metal straw

Terms and Conditions

The promoter is Mildura Rural City Council, 108 Madden Avenue, Mildura 3500
This program is only available to addresses located within the Mildura Rural City Council municipal area with access to kerbside bin collections
Only approved Mildura Rural City Council bins will be eligible to be inspected and be entered into the competition
Employees of Mildura Rural City Council and their direct relatives and anyone else directly connected to Mildura Rural City Council are not eligible to be entered
There is no entry fee or purchases required to be entered
Information regarding the program will be communicated through the Mildura Rural City Council website and social media channels
A property’s bins, regardless of approved additional bins, will be counted as one entry
The promoter reserves the right to cancel or amend these terms and conditions without notice in the event of a catastrophe, war, civil or military disturbance, natural disaster or any actual or anticipated breach of any applicable law or regulation or any other event outside of the promoter’s control. Any changes will be notified to entrants as soon as possible by the promoter
The prize pack for each winning entry will be the following; 1x Urban coffee cup, 1x Flexo water bottle, 1x Plastic & Wheat Straw Lunch Box, 1 x winners sticker to affix to the winner’s bin, 1x MRCC keychain, 1x reusable metal straw and 1x Jute Produce Bag – Large
Two winners will be selected from inspected hours during the two-week program
The prizes are as stated and no cash or other alternatives will be offered. The prizes are not transferable. Prizes are subject to availability, and we reserve the right to substitute any prize with another of equivalent value without giving notice
The winners of each daily inspected area will be selected by the inspection team with input from the department manager
All reasonable attempts will be made to contact winners within one week
If all reasonable attempts to contact a winner fail within that week, we reserve the right to withdraw the prize from the winner and pick a replacement winner
The promoter will notify the winners of when and where to collect the prize pack
The promoter’s decision in respect of all matters to do with the competition will be final and no correspondence will be entered into
The competition and these terms and conditions will be governed by Australian law and any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Australia
The winners agree to the use of their name and photograph in any publicity material, as well as their entry. Any personal data relating to the winner or any other entrants will be used solely in accordance with current Australian privacy laws and will not be disclosed to a third party without the entrant’s prior consent. The winners’ names will be available 28 days after closing date by emailing the following address: mrcc@mildura.vic.gov.au
This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook or any other social media network. You are providing your information to Mildura Rural City Council and not to any other party. The information provided will be used in conjunction with Mildura Rural City Council’s Privacy and Data Collection Policy which can be found at www.mildura.vic.gov.au/Privacy
Mildura Rural City Council shall have the right, at its sole discretion and at any time, to change or modify these terms and conditions, such change shall be effective immediately upon posting to this webpage
Mildura Rural City Council also reserves the right to cancel the competition if circumstances arise outside of its control