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  2. Kerbside collection - Wikipedia

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    Kerbside collection or curbside collection is a service provided to households, typically in urban and suburban areas, of collecting and disposing of household waste and recyclables. It is usually accomplished by personnel using specially built vehicles to pick up household waste in containers that are acceptable to, or prescribed by, the ...

  3. Waste management in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Transports, collection, associated costs and the indigenous way of thinking towards garbage are some of the main aspects that have been pondered. [154] The NSW "Aboriginal Communities Waste Management Program" and "Aboriginal Land Clean Up and Prevention Program" are some of the programs addressed to the Aboriginal communities. [156] [157]

  4. Recycling in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Hard waste collections occur in most suburban and regional councils and is designed to collect waste that is too large for a kerbside collection bin or for items that aren't accepted in any of the standard waste collections. [55] Fixed hard waste collections happen twice a year, typically during the seasons of autumn and spring.

  5. Municipal solid waste - Wikipedia

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    The types of means and facilities that are now used for the recovery of waste materials that have been separated at the source include kerbside collection, drop-off, and buy-back centres. The separation and processing of wastes that have been separated at the source and the separation of commingled wastes usually occur at a materials recovery ...

  6. List of waste management acronyms - Wikipedia

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    DCF Designated Collection Facility; DCLG Department for Communities and Local Government; DECC Department of Energy and Climate Change; DECLG Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Ireland) DEFRA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; DGXI Directorate General of the European Commission responsible for the ...

  7. Container deposit legislation in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Container deposit legislation (CDL), also known as a container deposit scheme (CDS), is a scheme that was first implemented in South Australia in 1977 and over the decades has spread to the Northern Territory in 2012, New South Wales in 2017, the Australian Capital Territory in June 2018, Queensland in November 2018, Western Australia in October 2020 and Victoria in November 2023.

  8. Talk:Kerbside collection - Wikipedia

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    Since Kerbside collection is only used in the UK, and Curbside recycling is used elsewhere, I propose that this article be moved to Curbside recycling. Pumeleon T 19:52, 12 August 2008 (UTC) Support. (But then, I'm from the U.S.) --Quuxplusone 05:42, 14 August 2008 (UTC) Support as

  9. New South Wales Land and Property Information - Wikipedia

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    The New South Wales Land and Property Information (NSW LPI), a division of the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation in the government of New South Wales, was the division responsible for land titles, property information, valuation, surveying, and mapping and spatial information in the Australian state of New South Wales.