INFORMATION

Yellow Recycling Bin

 

Don't bag your recycling! Please do not place your recycling in plastic bags.  

Recycling in plastic bags is contamination and goes straight to landfill.

 

Accepted items:

✅ Milk and food/juice cartons, including tetra packs

✅ Newspaper and magazines

✅ Aerosol cans (empty)

✅ Clean paper and cardboard, including egg cartons

✅ Plastic bottles and containers

✅ Glass bottles and jars

✅ Aluminium and metal cans, including clean aluminium trays and scrunched foil (golf ball size or larger)

 

Items NOT accepted in the recycling bin:

❌ Batteries

❌ Broken glass

❌ Ceramics

❌ Compostable or biodegradable labelled items and packaging

❌ Clothing and textiles

❌ Food-soiled cardboard and paper

❌ Mirrors

❌ Paper towels and tissues

❌ Plant pots

❌ Polystyrene foam

❌ Pyrex and glassware

❌ Recyclables in plastic bags

❌ Sharps and medical waste

❌ Shredded paper

❌ Soft plastics

❌ Takeaway coffee cups

 

 

Plastic Identification Code - This is not a recycling symbol. The code shows the type of plastic that the product is made of. Unfortunately, these codes can be confusing and misleading, and we ask you to ignore them as a reference to what can and cannot go in the recycling bin. 

 

Check The Australasian Recycling Label system for a reliable way to identify if a product or product part is recyclable instead.

Tips:

  • DO NOT bag your recycling or place plastic bags in your yellow-lidded recycle bin. Recyclable materials in plastic bags cannot be processed and may mean the contents of your entire recycling bin ends up going to landfill.
  • Flatten large cardboard boxes, but do not jam boxes in the recycling bin – they will get stuck and it may not empty.
  • Keep glass bottles whole. Broken glass should be placed in your red-lid landfill bin.
  • Make sure items are EMPTY - no need to wash, just give them a rinse out.
  • Lids larger than a credit card can be placed in your recycling bin separately.
  • Household 240 litre yellow lid bins are provided as a standard size for recycling and are collected on a fortnightly basis.  Council also has 80 litre and 360 litre yellow bins (fees apply) - visit this page to apply to change the size or number of your bins.
  • YES, sometimes recycling bins and landfill bins are emptied by the same truck. You're recycling isn't going to landfill, the truck has split chambers.  Red-lid bin waste goes to landfill and yellow-lid bin recycling goes to a Material Recovery Facility (MFR) for processing.
  • You can recycle common household problem waste like paint, gas bottles, fire extinguishers, motor and cooking oil, car and household batteries, fluorescent tubes and globes and smoke detectors for FREE at our Community Recycling Centre.
  • Has your bin been tagged? Council has a kerbside bin Contamination Policy to manage incorrect bin usage. Visit Councils website for more information.

 

Placing your bins out:

  • Place bins out the night before collection, at the kerb or roadside with the opening to the road.
  • Keep bins 0.5 metre apart and at least 2 metres away from obstructions like parked cars and trees.
  • Make sure the bin lid can shut - overfilled bins may not be emptied.
  • If you're struggling to pull the bin, it may be too heavy for the truck to life and empty (80kg limit).

  • Bring bins back to your property as soon as possible after collection. Do not leave bins at the roadside, verge or nature strip.

     

A kerbside service is not available to all residents. Please call Council on 6499 2222 to discuss your options.