At the council’s July meeting last Wednesday, Infrastructure Services manager Bernie Naylor said council hoped to secure funding to construct the stations at its Murtoa, Warracknabeal and Hopetoun transfer stations.

“As a result of the E-Waste ban which will now come into effect on the July 1, 2019, additional e-waste will flow into the existing resource recovery network,” he said.

“The current council owned network of transfer stations and resource recovery centres will be the preferred e-waste disposal sites for domestic e-wastes, as these sites are accessible, well located and are already used for the recycling and recovery of other materials.”

He said Sustainability Victoria had undertaken assessments and had developed three types of sites being primary, secondary and tertiary.

“Yarriambiack shire has one secondary site at Warracknabeal and the remaining sites are tertiary, with only the primary and secondary sites receiving Infrastructure funding in the first round,” he said. “I have submitted a request that the secondary site at Warracknabeal and two of the tertiary sites, being Hopetoun and Murtoa, all be funded within the first round.

“Council has now been advised that all three sites will be classified as secondary sites receiving funding of around $50,000 per site, which council will now make a funding application for.”

Mr Naylor said the community would need to be educated about what was and wasn’t classified as E-Waste.

“A lot of people don’t know what it is,” he said.