Rubbish bin auditors in Noosa Shire are leaving sad face emojis on bins of residents who have not been recycling correctly.
The eight-week trial will see council officers checking bins, leaving a happy or sad face sticker and information on how to separate waste correctly.
Councillor Joe Jurisevic said “One of the ways of trying to improve recycling rates and avoidance of waste to landfill, is to go through and see what people are putting in their bins and trying to enhance the education about which bins certain waste should go in”.
Noosa council's Emma Menzies said an earlier audit showed Noosa had a “6.3 per cent rate of recycling bin contamination with either general rubbish or plastic bags”.
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