Bayside Council's street cleaning program is continuing to keep local streets clean during the current lockdown.
Council's five large mechanical street sweepers and two manual sweeping crews provide a service capable of sweeping every street in the LGA twice a month. This equates to over 1400km of kerb and gutter swept every month.
This street cleaning operation, run from depots at both Bexley and Botany, removes over 2200t of leaves, litter and debris from Council streets each year.
As well as keeping streets clean, removing this waste material keeps it out of the gutters.
This keeps it out of the stormwater system and ultimately out of our creeks, waterways and oceans.
Council has also established recycling bays to stop this street waste from ending up landfill.
Council transports the street sweepings to purpose-built facilities that separate the street sweepings into resources such as, leaves, sand and plastics that can be reused.
This process results in the recovery and repurposing of over 85% of the waste material swept from Council streets.
Council also separates waste materials from our civil construction works into concrete, asphalt, steel and green waste.
The steel is recycled while the asphalt and concrete is taken to places that process it into roadbase material.
Green waste is chipped and stored on-site in a specially constructed bay and used to mulch various landscaped areas across the LGA.
Excavated natural material is stockpiled for reuse on Council construction projects.
Processed asphalt and concrete are also stored in the purpose-built bays for use as roadbase throughout the LGA.
