The Eaglehawk Recycle Shop has been recycling mattresses at its site for the past five-plus years and is currently receiving approximately 350 mattresses per month, a majority of which are recycled on site, with some being sent to the mattress recycling facility (TIC Mattress Recycling) mentioned in the article. Along with mattresses, we also receive many other household items including refrigeration, whitegoods etc.

We are also a collection point for the Detox your Home Program in which people can drop off their old fluorescent lights, household and car batteries and unwanted paint tins at no cost. 

As we cannot take household chemicals on a daily basis, the Detox your Home Program also visits the site twice a year for this purpose.

The Eaglehawk Recycle Shop has been operating for 24 years. We receive a huge variety of unwanted household items for recycling or resale.

By doing this it creates employment and if the residents of Bendigo sort their loads prior to going to the landfill we take off their reusable/recyclable items, which can reduce their costs at the landfill as well as reduce the waste going to landfill.

Last year the Eaglehawk Recycle Shop diverted over 9000 tonnes of household items from the landfill through their recycling practices. It is not a council-run operation, it is a not-for-profit organisation run by a voluntary board of management.

After hearing from friends who were most upset and distraught by renting their house out for 12 months while on holidays and thinking that they could trust tenants, only to come back and find their house very badly damaged, it makes one wonder where the trust and respect has gone from our society.

Working endlessly to get the house made comfortable so that another family can have the privilege of renting and comfort while they were away, yet to come back and find their dream house with broken doors, bathroom rails off, kitchen badly damaged, gates half off – why offer to give other people a chance in renting your private property or even public property for that matter?

What has happened to our respect and trust? Yes, they are paying for it, however, their paying for what they receive when they first take hold and they should have the decency to leave other people’s property, or any property, the way it was left to them.

It makes it so hard for others who are badly in need of accommodation and would give anything to rent a house off such loving and trustworthy as my friends are.

Daniel Andrews admits Victoria is facing “rising drug crime”, but has delivered little to keep Victorians safe.

Today, Labor announced 30 new rehabilitation beds for Victoria in the next 12 months.

Daniel Andrews claims they’re not wasting any time, but what he failed to say is Labor had added zero public residential rehab beds in Victoria after more than two years in government.

Daniel Andrews wouldn’t now be playing catch-up if Labor had adopted the Liberal Nationals’ plan to add more than 200 residential rehab beds in Victoria, which was committed before the 2014 election.

The ice epidemic is out of control, fuelling violence in our communities and in the home.

A Liberal-Nationals government would introduce tough new sentencing and bail reforms to make Victoria safe again.