The Brighton community has been busy dropping off hard-to-recycle items to the recycling booth at the Brighton Council chambers. As a result of these efforts, 30kg of x-ray film, 5kg of light bulbs, and a whopping 61kg of batteries were able to be recycled. This earned Brighton Council, and by extension the wider community, a Certificate of Recycling Excellence by Ecocycle. Well done, everyone. Remember that batteries are considered hazardous waste and should never be put in your recycling or general waste bin. Luckily there are plenty of places to dispose of them safely, including at the Council Chambers, and all major supermarkets.

There was also a recent collection of electronic waste, or e-waste, from the collection point at the Cove Hill Waste Transfer Station. It was about 75 percent full and contained 100kg of waste, consisting of a PC, six laptops, one switch, one modem, a UPS, assorted cables, two power tools, and other miscellaneous electrical items. There were 12 computer monitors and one printer but those items could not be accepted because there’s not a current way of scrapping them, so they were only suitable for landfill. The e-waste is collected from Brighton, sorted through manual recycling in South Hobart, and then sent to various recycling facilities interstate and throughout the world.