Council’s municipal solid waste (MSW) recycling rate currently tracks at 27%, well below the recycling target of 50% by 2025. Research shows that our city's yellow-lid recycling bin contamination rate is high compared to some neighbouring councils. Additionally, many recyclable items are being lost to landfill through the red-lid general waste bins. There is an urgent need for council to improve yellow-lid recycling to work towards the targets, in line with the Resource Recovery Strategy.

Council is participating in the state government's Let's Get It Sorted initiative to support waste reduction, improve recycling and implement behaviour change interventions in order to improve kerbside recycling collection services.

We have now gathered feedback from the community to understand public perspectives and drivers behind waste and resource recovery behaviours. These insights will help us continue to improve our services and become a more sustainable and liveable city. A second phase of engagement will then be run in September 2025 to see the initial impact of changes made based on phase 1 feedback.

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The community was invited to submit their feedback using one of the engagement channels below:

• Completing our online survey
• Attending a pop up event (see details below)
• Submitting a hard copy survey
• Emailing us directly at communityengagement@ipswich.qld.gov.au
• Calling our Contact Centre at 3810 6666