Recycling for Businesses
Mount Isa City Council supports businesses in adopting sustainable waste management practices through tailored recycling programs. Find out how your business can participate.
Council Recycling Trial
What is happening?
Council is offering a commercial recycling trial from 1 February to 30 June 2025 for local businesses. Participants will receive 240L yellow wheelie bins for recycling, along with a free collection service until the end of the financial year.
What’s included in the trial?
- Delivery of 1 or 2 x 240L yellow wheelie bins for recycling.
- Free collection service for five months.
What does it mean for you?
This is an opportunity for your business to take part in recycling in Mount Isa and contribute towards our landfill reduction goals. Detailed information on what can and cannot be recycled can be found here.
What do you need to do next?
If you are interested in joining us please fill out the survey here.
Below are programs to help businesses recycle and reduce consumption.
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Many hospitality businesses are using more plastic than they think. Grow your customer base and build your reputation with the help of the Plastic-Free Places program.
The program works with hospitality businesses to:
- Reduce single-use plastic waste and packaging costs
- Grow customer loyalty
- Save time and effort
Best of all, this Queensland Government-funded program is completely free. To join, click here.
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EcoBiz is a free program for small and medium-sized Queensland businesses with less than 200 full time equivalent (FTE) employees. The program provides personalised coaching, training, and tools to help reduce consumption of water and energy, waste, manage your carbon emissions, and improve resource efficiency and sustainability.
ASPIRE is a digital tool that supports social business networks. As industries face the challenge of rising waste disposal costs and the pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from excessive landfill, it is neither cost-effective, operationally efficient, nor socially responsible for companies to ignore the end-of-life impacts of unwanted resources.
Free drop-off: Bulk Bags & Sacks
Join Mount Isa City Council’s Circular Economy Initiative!
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Mount Isa City Council invites local businesses to participate in the Big Bag Recovery program – a FREE recycling service designed to:
✅ Cut down waste and disposal costs
✅ Enhance your sustainability reputation
✅ Save time with easy drop-off
What Happens to Your Bags?
Instead of heading to landfill, your empty and decontaminated bulk bags and sacks (woven polypropylene & LDPE, from 15kg/l+) will be turning waste into useful products like school seating and water-saving equipment.
Be part of the solution: Sort Right. Recycle Better
- Dropped off at: Waste Transfer Station, 150 Jessop Drive, Mount Isa. (Free of charge.)
- Sorted & baled, then sent to Toowoomba.
- Recycled into resin pellets used for community products like school seating and floating covers for water evaporation.
Learn more: bigbagrecovery.com.au
Email us: recycling@mountisa.qld.gov.au
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