Car-share firm offers free vans so you can be your own garbo

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If you don't want your recyclables going to landfill, there's now some help to do the dirty work yourself.

For those sick of groaning about the recycling crisis, here's a novel solution: be your own bin collector.

Free vans will be available for environmentally responsible Melburnians to take their recycling to a waste transfer centre under a new promotion from a car-share company.Until at least the end of the month, GoGet is handing out free van trips to residents in the City of Melbourne, City of Port Phillip and City of Moonee Valley who can prove the journey was to drop off recycling.The deal is not just limited to taking your own recycling.

Some residents have already started taking their recycling directly to waste transfer stations to be sorted.

 

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