Draft Waste Strategy 2026 - 2031

This consultation closed on Wednesday 8 July 2026.

In 2025, hundreds of residents shared their thoughts on waste and recycling in Kingston through surveys, face-to-face conversations and community events. You told us that while current services are working well, there are opportunities to improve recycling, reduce waste, and better address illegal dumping. Your feedback has helped shape the Draft Waste Strategy and will guide our future priorities.

This is your opportunity to review the draft strategy and let us know whether it reflects what you told us matters most.

View the Draft Waste Strategy 2026 - 2031.

About the Strategy

The Draft Waste Strategy outlines how we will deliver waste and recycling services over the coming years. It focuses on:

• Reducing waste and increasing recycling
• Providing reliable and easy-to-use services
• Keeping services affordable and delivering value for money
• Improving education and access to information
• Reducing litter and illegal dumping
• Using innovation and technology to improve outcomes

The draft strategy also responds to new state government requirements, including changes to how waste and recycling services are standardised across Victoria.

Key initiatives include:

• Expanding hard waste service options, including for apartments
• Increasing food waste recycling services
• Improving access to waste and recycling information in formats that suit everyone
• Strengthening enforcement for illegal dumping and littering
• Introducing updated waste guidelines for new developments
• Exploring new technologies to improve service delivery

Your feedback will help shape the final Waste Strategy and ensure it reflects the needs and priorities of the Kingston community.

Have Your Say

Online: via the short survey below

In-person: at our community convo event, Karkarook Park Run on 13 June from 7am-9am

Email: info@kingston.vic.gov.au

Phone: 1300 653 356

Mail: City of Kingston, PO Box 1000, Mentone 3194.

This consultation closed on Wednesday 8 July 2026.

The future of our waste - 2025 consultation

Waste is an ongoing challenge for local communities across Australia. With landfills rapidly filling up, we must continue to evolve and find solutions to managing waste in Kingston.

Together, let's reduce, reuse, recycle... and reimagine our waste.

We're developing a waste strategy to help guide our waste services and education programs in the future - with the aim to increase recycling and reduce the amount of waste Kingston produces and sends to landfill.

We're seeking your feedback on a range of topics to inform the development of our plan, including:

→ our current waste services

→ the introduction of glass recycling

→ waste education and programs

→ future waste priorities.

Kingston's waste

We have an opportunity to improve the cost effectiveness, and efficient management of our waste, and understanding how you use our waste services is key to planning how best to do this.

The Victorian Government has set a target of diverting 80% of waste from landfills by 2030.

Currently, Kingston's households compost and recycle 55% of their total waste.

While we have seen a 7% increase in our diversion rate following the introduction of food waste recycling in Kingston, there is still room for improvement.

*The City of Kingston's waste services operate on a cost-recovery model, meaning additional waste services may increase the waste charge on your rates notice. When developing our waste strategy and exploring solutions to managing Kingston's waste, we must continue to maintain a balance between affordability and service provision.

We want to hear your values, preferences and ideas on reducing and recycling waste via:

Online: via our survey
Mail: City of Kingston, PO Box 1000, Mentone 3194

Submissions closed on Monday 3 November.