Recycling bin

Clean, rigid plastics numbered 1, 2 or 5*, which typically includes:

✓ Milk and other plastic drink bottles
✓ Yoghurt, ice cream and margarine tubs
✓ Detergent and shampoo bottles
✓ Berry punnets
✓ Biscuit trays
✓ Takeaway containers
✓ Plastic plates
✓ Clear plastic meat trays


*Check the bottom of the item for a triangle containing a number
* Items should be about the size of a credit card or larger. Otherwise put them in the landfill bin.

Paper and Cardboard
✓ Boxes - uncoated
✓ Newspapers
✓ Magazines
✓ Junk mail
✓ Envelopes (you can leave the clear windows in)
✓ Egg cartons
✓ Clean, empty pizza boxes (if the base is greasy or has food attached, rip the box apart and put the clean cardboard in the recycle bin, and the greasy part in your FOGO bin.)

Metals

✓ Drink cans
✓ Tins and cans (including Milo tins, etc)
✓ Ferrous metal (magnetic) lids
✓ Empty aerosol cans (lid off)
✓ Aluminium foil – scrunched into the size of a golf ball
✓ Aluminium foil trays (rinsed clean)


X Glass (bottles and jars go in the glass-only bin)
X Rigid plastic not numbered 1, 2 or 5
X Plastic bags or soft packaging of any sort (if you can, drop them into REDcycle bins at participating Coles and Woolworths stores)
X Cardboard Milk or juice cartons (includes long life cartons) - coated cardboard packaging made for holding liquids goes in the general waste bin.
X Takeaway coffee cups and lids (place in general waste bin)
X Any plastics not numbered 1, 2 or 5
X Small plastic lids (plastic lids larger than credit card size can go in your recycling bin)
X Clingwrap (put it in the general waste bin)
X Polystyrene foam (take it to a transfer station)
X Foam meat trays or black plastic meat trays (regardless of the number)
X Light globes and tubes (take e-waste to a transfer station )
X Electrical items or appliances (take e-waste to a transfer station)
X Batteries (take e-waste to a transfer station or battery collection tube)
X Window glass
X Mirrors
X Broken drinking glasses
X Pyrex, crockery or ceramics
X Coffee pods (check to see if you can recycle yours somewhere)
X Video tapes
X Gas bottles
X Fabric or clothing
X Food scraps or garden organics (these go in the FOGO bin)
X Nappies
X Wire and rope
X Timber
X Hazardous or medical waste such as sharps or sharps containers

You sure can.

• There is no cost to downsize bins.
• If you would like an extra recycling bin there is a yearly fee.
• If you would like a larger recycling bin, there is a once-off fee.

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