Litter

Reporting Litter Offences

Littering can be in the form of:

• Dropping paper, food wrappers, bottles, cans or cigarette butts from vehicles
• Dumping rubbish including household or commercial waste on vacant land
• Dumping fill (soil, etc) onto vacant land
• Leaving picnic rubbish behind in a park or shopping area
• Placing unauthorised posters on poles, bus shelters or buildings
• Leaving household rubbish on nature strips and
• Observing a person intentionally leaving a shopping trolley in a street, reserve or waterway

What can you do about it?

Contact one of our Customer Service Centres to take any action against alleged offenders. We need as much information:

Date and time you saw the littering

• Location e.g. street name, suburb and house number (e.g. outside number 10)
• Description and the number of offenders
• Address of offender (if known), e.g. “I saw them come out of Unit 1 at No 50”.
• Description of material dumped e.g. lit cigarette butt; truckload of soil; concrete, etc.
• Your name, address and contact telephone number.

Please note: You may have to attend at a Magistrates’ Court and give evidence of what you saw however, this happens in less than 2% of cases.

To report littering please complete a Litter Report Form and return it to Council.

Further Information

For more information call 9249 4000 or email info@brimbank.vic.gov.au