Did you know

Recent bin inspections found that many red lidded household waste bins were overfull with materials which could be recycled or mulched. Do you know what items can be recycled in your yellow lidded bin, or mulched via your green lidded bin?

What can you do?

Take the online pledge below to commit to sending less to landfill, by using your yellow and green lidded bins for recyclable and compostable materials. Once you have taken the pledge, we will send you a sticker to place on your red lidded bin to show everyone you are committed to reducing landfill. You will also go in the draw to win a gift box from the Tourism and Arts Centre, or a voucher to the Waste Transfer Station (valued at $30).

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Use our online form to Take the Pledge Now!

Terms and Conditions
The promoters of this competition are the Port Pirie Regional Council, 115 Ellen Street, Port Pirie SA 5540, and KESAB Environmental Solutions, 214 Grange Road, Flinders Park SA 5025

Eligibility:
Entry is available only to Port Pirie Regional Council residents. Residents must complete and submit the online ‘Take the Pledge’ entry form (housed on the Port Pirie Regional Council website) to be eligible for the competition.
Prize:
All Port Pirie Regional Council residents who ‘Take the Pledge’ will go in the draw to win theirchoice of either a voucher to the Waste Transfer Station or a gift box from the Tourism and Artscentre, (valued at $30). A total of 50 prizes will be available over the 10 week competition period. Total prize pool value is $1,500 (including GST). Up to 5 prizes will be available per week of the competition period.Vouchers are subject to the terms and conditions imposed by the voucher provider. Once awarded, the Port Pirie Regional Council is not liable for and will not replace any voucher that has been lost, stolen, forged, damaged or otherwise expires.
Only one prize will be awarded per eligible property during the competition period. No compensation is payable if a winner is unable to or does not use the prize.
How to enter:
Using the Port Pirie Regional Council website, entrants must submit the ‘Take the Pledge’ online form. All Port Pirie Regional Council residents who ‘Take the Pledge’ will be sent a sticker to place on their red lidded bin to demonstrate their commitment to reducing landfill.
Competition Timeline and Structure:
Pledges received via the online form will be organised by KESAB into groups defined by collection day. Each week of the competition period (April - June), a collection day will be selected at random, with up to 10 households on that collection day chosen to have their bins visually inspected. Bin inspections will be conducted by Cleanaway collection truck drivers, Council staff and or KESAB. The purpose of a bin inspection is to determine whether correct bin usage has occurred at the selected property.
Correct bin usage will be determined by no visible signs of recycling or garden organics in the waste (red lidded) bin, and no sign of contamination in the recycling (yellow lidded) or organics (green lidded) bins (whichever is presented at the time). The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Each week of the competition, the first 5 of the selected houses inspected who are deemed by the judges to be using their bins correctly will be eligible for a prize. Once 5 winning households have
been selected from the 10 chosen in that inspection week, inspections will cease and the remainder of chosen households for that week will not be inspected. Only households presenting bins with the ‘I’m Sending Less to Landfill’ sticker will be included in the
judging, and therefore be eligible for a prize. Winning households will be awarded a voucher which must be taken to the Port Pirie Regional Council Office, 115 Ellen Street, Port Pirie SA 5540, to be redeemed for their chosen prize (either a gift box from the Tourism and Arts centre, or a voucher to the Waste Transfer Station (valued at $30). The Council reserves the right to request prize winners provide proof of identity and/or proof of occupancy before claiming any prize. If suitable proof cannot be provided, the prize will be forfeited.
In the event that correct bin usage is not identified in relation to any bins inspected in a week, or over the competition period, no prize will be awarded.
Bin inspections will take place between March and April 2023. Further rounds of the competition may be conducted at the discretion of Council. If so, dates will be published on the Council website.
Other Terms and Conditions:
Port Pirie Regional Council reserves the right to publish on the Council’s website, social media or in print materials, a brief summary of the bin inspection results, including the first name and suburb of winning residents/properties. Property numbers and street names will not be published.
Council will not be responsible for any incidents occurring or suffered in connection with this competition, or in accepting or using any prize.