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Learn more about your green bin

The delivery stage of the green bin roll-out is now complete! We’ve delivered over 42,000 bins over the past few months. Every household in Hume City should now have a food and garden bin.

The purpose of the green bin is to help remove food and garden waste from landfill. By weight, food makes up half of red bin contents. In landfills, organic material breaks down and creates harmful greenhouse gases like methane that contribute to climate change. However, everything in the green bin goes to a local facility to be recycled into compost!

You can put any kind of food in the green bin, including:

  • meat and bones
  • cheeses
  • eggshells
  • desserts or lollies
  • processed foods

Make sure you remove any packaging! Packaging goes in the red bin. You can’t put things like plastic (including bin liners), tea bags, pet poo, kitty litter, rocks, soil or timber into your green bin.

For more information, visit hume.vic.gov.au/green-bin

Elections/changes to wards

Victorian council elections will be held on Saturday 26 October 2024.

This is your chance to vote on who represents Hume City.

Hume City Council will transition to 11 wards, each represented by one Councillor.

The decision to transition to 11 wards was made in February 2024 by the Victorian Local Government Minister.

The aim is to improve local representation and make sure each area of Hume is well represented.

In the lead up to elections, Councils must ensure they do not publish or spread any information which could affect election voting.

From 12pm Tuesday 17 September – 6pm Saturday 26 October, we will only be communicating essential news.

Voting is compulsory. You must enrol and vote if you:

  • are 18 years or older
  • are an Australian citizen
  • have lived at your address for longer than one month.

Enrol to vote, checking or updating your enrolment https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/enrolment.

The election will be held by postal ballot.

The ballot will be sent to your enrolled address.

You will receive your ballot pack Tuesday 8 October – Thursday 10 October.

Complete and post your ballot by 6pm on Friday 25 October.

 

For our next edition of Hume Highlight, we want to hear from the community!

Share your seasonal tips, photos, recipes or highlights for spring for the chance to feature in our next edition of Hume Highlight.

To learn more.

Bookable

You can now easily book Council facilities and venues online.

Our new platform Bookable allows you to search, view and book a range of Council facilities.

Facilities include community centres, halls, senior citizen centres, youth centres community buses and more.

There are venues across Hume City to suit any event – birthday parties, weddings, work events and more.

You can make single or repeat bookings and manage your booking and payments online from your account.

Visit hume.bookable.net.au to browse and register for a Bookable account or visit hume.vic.gov.au/bookings-how-to to find out more about using Bookable.

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