Join in on Clean Up Australia Day for your chance to win

February 5, 2019Posted in: Community, Events

Wingecarribee Shire Council is calling on residents to lend a hand on Clean Up Australia Day for their chance to win a home compost bin. Clean Up Australia’s Managing Director, Terri-Ann Johnson, explained the importance of continuing founder Ian Kiernan AO’s work. “Ian firmly believed that every single one of us can and should make...

Council kicks off annual Summer Clean Up

January 31, 2019Posted in: Events

WSC waste

Wingecarribee Shire Council’s Resource Recovery Centre will commence its annual Shire-wide Summer Clean Up in Balaclava, Mittagong, Renwick and Welby starting Monday 4 February 2019. The Clean Up is available to all current domestic Council waste service users and is operated on a pre-book and pre-paid basis. Old furniture, metals and white goods with doors...

Garbage bin collections over Christmas period

December 12, 2018Posted in: Roads and Assets

Aerial shot of the RRC in Moss Vale

Wingecarribee Shire Council wishes to advise that the Moss Vale Resource Recovery Centre will remain open over the holiday period only closing for the public holidays. The Resource Recovery Centre’s Christmas operating days will be as follows: Monday 24 December                               ...

Bikes bound for Myanmar depart Council’s RRC

December 11, 2018Posted in: Community, Environment, Other

Volunteers Hans Radowitz and Bob Clark with Wingecarribee Shire Mayor Duncan Gair and representatives from Bikes 4 Life

Disadvantaged school children in Myanmar are set to benefit from the generosity of Southern Highlands residents with the imminent arrival of a shipping container of refurbished bicycles. Closing the door on the shipping container packed with hundreds of bikes was Wingecarribee Shire Mayor Councillor Duncan Gair and volunteers from Bikes 4 Life. “This container is...

Council to celebrate Compost Awareness Week

May 4, 2018Posted in: Community, Environment, Events

Wingecarribee Shire Council is set to celebrate International Composting Awareness Week with free activities to promote the benefits of composting. International Composting Awareness Week is an annual event, this year held between 6 and 12 May 2018. Council’s Waste Education Officer Libby Guest explained that activities aim to raise the profile of composting and the...

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