General News
9 March, 2025
Making things spick and span
ROADSIDES and a recreation ground are looking tidier after Loddon residents signed up for Clean-up Australia Day. Inglewood Primary School students headed to the town’s recreation reserve on Friday morning picking up rubbish and growing civic...
ROADSIDES and a recreation ground are looking tidier after Loddon residents signed up for Clean-up Australia Day.
Inglewood Primary School students headed to the town’s recreation reserve on Friday morning picking up rubbish and growing civic pride.
And on Sunday, the Ingleward Landcare Group had its first activity since being formed last month when volunteers filled more than a dozen bags with litter strewn on the roadside between Inglewood and Kingower.
Organiser Katie Gillett said enthusiasm of volunteers for having a clean environment would see a further clean-up morning in May.
Sunday’s effort saw a handful of volunteers and Katie said she hoped that foundation would continue to see group participation grow with future events in the Loddon Shire’s Inglewood ward.
Loddon Shire Council’s annual hard waste collection, timed for after the Clean-up Australia Day weekend, started on Monday.
Around Loddon towns, residents have left everything from old furniture to white goods outside homes ready to be taken to rubbish tips.
Council’s operations director Steve Phillips said the hard waste collection was for properties in the mandatory kerbside waste - towns, low density residential zone and rural living zones. “Residents in those zones may place items up to a total of one cubic metre out on the nature strip,” he said. “Outside of these zones, the kerbside bin collection service is optional and a kerbside hard waste collection is not provided.”
Clean-up Australia Day started 35 years ago and with its focus now on preventing rubbish entering the environment and removing what has already accumulated.