New bin stickers spell out council recycling message 11 July 2018 New bin stickers will be stuck on yellow top bins from Monday until the end of August, explaining the new Recycle 4 strategy in Ipswich.Council has contracted workers from local charity organisation yourtown and not-for-profit organisation NORTEC to put approximately 78,000 stickers on residents’ yellow top bins.The brightly coloured stickers will highlight the Recycle 4 message, which targets four specific items:Paper – newspaper, magazines, junk mail, office paperPlastic – bottles and containers (milk, soft drink and shampoo bottles; yoghurt and ice-cream tubs)Cardboard – boxes including pizza boxesCans & Tins – aluminium and steel (drink cans, food tins and aerosol cans)Works, Parks and Sport Committee Acting Chairperson Cr David Morrison said workers will get to between 3500 and 4000 yellow top bins per day over the month-long operation.“They will have identifiable name tags and they will not go into or on properties.

Ipswich City councillors today said they can’t understand why the State Government is setting up a kangaroo court at the

Extraordinary steps deny opportunity for justice 09 July 2018 Ipswich City councillors said today they were disappointed that Local Government Minister Stirling Hinchliffe has refused them an opportun…

Concrete beams give life to historic Tallegalla Cemetery 09 July 2018 The historic cemetery at Tallegalla is looking better than ever.Ipswich City Council has finished a $45,000 project to construct c…

Council calls for expressions of interest for new sports fields 28 June 2018 Sport and recreation clubs are being encouraged to lodge Expressions of Interest (EOI) to use new sports fields.Three new p…

Ipswich buoyed by State Government commitment to Supreme Court 28 June 2018 Ipswich City Council is grateful to be allowed in the immediate term to get on with the job of managing this city and findin…

Council to review libraries’ forward planning and growth strategy 29 June 2018 Ipswich City Council will review its libraries’ forward planning and growth strategy for the first time in almost a decad…

Pictures now part of the Environmental Weed Control Rebate 29 June 2018 Changes to the Environmental Weed Control Rebate will help ensure the program’s success.From July 1 residents applying for the r…

Two Ipswich park and leisure initiatives have won peak industry awards.The 2018 Queensland Park and Leisure Australia (PLA) Awards of