Patrick and Kate are Street Champions who started a community recycling drop-off station on their street. They already collected various tricky items for recycling in our home such as batteries, e-waste and light globes.
They had the idea that, why just take our own waste? Why not collect it from our community and also recycle it on their behalf?
The project was simple. Install a bin at our front gate with some good signage and wait and see what happened.
In less than 2 hours the bin was used so they had a feeling they were onto something
Every few days they empty the bin and stockpile the materials in our garage until they have enough to justify dropping them off at the various recycle points. They are careful to combine drop off’s with other tasks to reduce any impacts from taking dedicated drives to drop off the recycling.
The bin has been on the street for 12 months and they have collected
45kg of ewaste, 42kg batteries, 16kg of xrays, 412 light globes