Victorian households would get up to six bins to better sort their recycling as part of a proposed solution to the state’s ongoing waste crisis.

The radical proposal is among a series of ideas contained in an interim report by Infrastructure Victoria to prevent tonnes of recycling being sent to landfill.

However, the proposal could prove divisive with a key waste group arguing community education is a better way to reduce contamination in recycling.

Over the past 18 years, the amount of waste that Victorians have produced has doubled, rising from 7.4 million tonnes in 2000 to 13.4 million tonnes in 2018.