Gannawarra Shire Council operates four Transfer Stations throughout the Shire which accept a range of materials. All Transfer Stations are staffed and have specific operating hours. Household types and quantities of recyclables are accepted free of charge at all Stations.
Below is a listing of operating hours and charges. Should you require more information please contact the Kerang Office on (03) 5450 9333.
Cohuna
Chuggs Road, Cohuna
Phone: (03) 5456 2613
Kerang
Kerang-Murrabit Road, Kerang
Phone (03) 5450 4334
Lalbert
Wood Avenue, Lalbert
Quambatook
Meering Road, Quambatook
Barham
Barham East Road, Barham 2732 (NSW)
For more information, including operating hours, please visit the Murray River Council website.
- Cohuna: Friday 9am - 11am and Sunday 1pm - 4pm
- Kerang: Tuesday, Friday, Sunday 1pm - 4pm
- Lalbert: Open for the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month 10am - 12 noon
- Quambatook: Open for the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month 1pm - 3pm
Please note that these facilities are closed on days which coincide with a public holiday.
To view Council's Transfer Station Fees & Charges, please click here(PDF, 200KB).
For Barham Transfer Station fees, please contact Murray River Council on 1300 087 004.
Residents are able to recycle their household glass bottles for free at any of Council’s transfer stations.
Thanks to funding from the State Government’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, designated glass recycling skip bins are located at the Cohuna, Kerang, Lalbert and Quambatook transfer stations and the Koondrook Depot (View Street), enabling all materials collected to be recycled and turned into new products.
drumMUSTER is the national program for collection and recycling of empty, cleaned farm chemical containers.
Chemical users pay 4 cents per litre or kilogram levy on eligible products sold in non-returnable containers. Containers are identified by a logo (sticker, label or embossed) which shows they are eligible for recycling through drumMUSTER.
All of Gannawarra Shire Council's Transfer stations are drumMUSTER locations. The Transfer Stations will accept drums during normal operating hours, but will require you to book in advance.
For more information visit the Drummuster website.
As of 1 July 2019, e-waste products are banned from being placed in rubbish bins and landfills throughout Victoria.
After this date all e-waste, which refers to any item with a plug, battery or cord that is no longer working or wanted needs to be dropped off at e-waste drop off locations.
Gannawarra Shire Council's e-waste drop off locations are the Cohuna, Kerang, Quambatook and Lalbert Waste Transfer Stations.
What is e-waste?
If it’s got a plug, battery or cord and is unwanted, it’s e-waste. It could be any of a whole range of items from work, home or even the garden shed. From old phones, computers and household appliances to power tools and toys.
E-waste is full of valuable resources we can reuse, as well as some nasty materials that are bad for the environment. Rather than putting it in the bin and sending it to landfill, we should take it to a better place where we can remove the bad and save the good.
Electronic waste is growing up to three times faster than general municipal waste. The good news is that e-waste is more than 95 per cent recyclable. For example, old mobile phones can be recycled to make stainless steel goods, new batteries and even plastic fence posts.
Interesting Facts
- It takes around 100,000 phones to recover 1 kilogram of gold
- 99% of your mobile phone can be recycled and re-used
- 208,256 trees planted is equivalent to carbon emission savings of recycling 26,032 tonnes of e-waste
- 1 in 5 Australians admit to hoarding their old electronic devices
Why recycle it?
There are many reasons why you should recycle e-waste.
It’s good for the environment.
All e-waste products can contain hazardous materials. Ranging from heavy metals like lead, mercury and cadmium to ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS) and flame retardants.
Even in small amounts these dangerous chemicals can cause environmental contamination.
But when you multiply it by the millions of e-waste items being left in landfills the situation becomes much more serious.
It’s good to recover and reuse.
E-waste also contains a whole range of valuable materials, including tin, nickel, zinc, aluminium, copper, silver, gold and plastic.
A million mobile phones contain an estimated 15–16 tonnes of copper, 340–350 kilograms of silver and 24–34 kilograms of gold. When you consider there are more than 22 million discarded mobile handsets in Australia and growing, we’re throwing away a lot of precious resources.
Keep it out of landfill.
In 2016, 44.7 million metric tonnes of e-waste was generated worldwide. Of this enormous figure, only about 20 per cent, or 8.9 million metric tonnes was recycled. The rest ended up in landfill. Hazardous and precious metals aside, this huge volume of ‘stuff’ we’re trying to hide underground is not sustainable. When you think about all the other rubbish that goes to landfill, keeping e-waste out is a much smarter idea.
What environmental and human harm can be caused by e-waste?
70 per cent of toxic chemicals found in landfill come from e-waste. Many electronic products contain hazardous materials such as lead, mercury, arsenic, phosphor, fluids and refrigerants and when left in landfills or stored inappropriately, these materials can leach into groundwater and soil, or release into the air, creating long term contamination and human health issues.
Thanks to Council's partnership with Solar Recovery Corporation, residents can take exhausted, damaged or soiled solar panels to any of our transfer stations for recycling free of charge.
As part of this program, Solar Recovery Corporation will collect these solar panels, separate all materials and pack them for reuse.