Annual Report 2010-11 - Zero Waste SA - SA.Gov.au

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The aluminium and mercury will be used to make new
light globes, the phosphor powder into fertiliser, and the
glass will be re-used into a variety of other glass products.
Household and Farm Chemical Collection mobile collections
In 2010–11, the mobile collection program collected 89.5
tonnes of household hazardous waste and farm chemicals
from more than 1,800 members of the public in four
regional and six metropolitan council collections.
Number of
vehicles
Total weight
(kg)
Country collections
Port Pirie Regional
55 3,014
Council (two collections)
Mid Murray 3 279
Rural City of Murray
20 3,673
Bridge
Metropolitan collections
Adelaide City Council 85 3,246
Norwood, Payneham and
319 9942.5
St Peters, Walkerville,
Campbelltown and
Burnside councils
City of Onkaparinga
899 43,974
(two collections)
Adelaide Hills Council 220 9,491
Town of Gawler, the City
264 15,898
of Playford and City of
Salisbury
TOTAL 1,865 89,518
Details of collections can be found at: www.zerowaste.
sa.gov.au/at-home/hazardous-waste/household-hazardouswaste-collection-timetables.
Light globe recycling program
On 18 January 2011, Zero Waste SA launched a three-year
pilot program – the BackLight Household Light Globe
Recycling Program. Householders can now drop off a
range of used fluorescent light globes for recycling at
24 metropolitan and 26 regional Mitre 10 stores across
the State, free of charge. The globes are then recycled by
Chemsal Resource Recovery. The aluminium and mercury
will be used to make new light globes, the phosphor
powder into fertiliser, and the glass will be re-used into a
variety of other glass products.
After six months, the program has collected more than
12,000 lamps and globes from householders for recycling,
equating to a total of 1,266 kilograms.
The BackLight program supports a number of State and
Federal Government initiatives including:
> the State Government’s commitment of directing
$100,000 towards a householder ‘take back’ scheme
for used globes with retailers.
> the Environment Protection (Waste to Resources)
Policy 2010 which will ban fluorescent and other
mercury containing lighting from landfill, from
September 2012 in metropolitan Adelaide, and
September 2013 for the rest of the State by ensuring
the safe disposal of the mercury contained in energy
efficient light globes
> the Australian Government’s ban on the retail sale of
incandescent light bulbs from November 2009
> the Australian Government’s voluntary Fluoro-Cycle
scheme that aims to recycle the majority of commercial
mercury-containing lighting.
In the period 2010–11, Zero Waste SA collected a total of
174,035 kilograms of hazardous waste from 3,382 people.