Put it in the right bin!
Here is your guide to resource recovery. To check how you should dispose of your waste items, simply look the item up in the A-Z list below and check the coloured icon.
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Yellow items go in your yellow-topped recycling bin. |
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Green items go in your green bin. |
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Red items must be taken to disposal sites. |
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Other items can be recycled by a range of community services. |
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Junk and Greenwaste items are collected from your verge. |
For Hazardous Household Waste Disposal please click here.
A-Z List of Waste Items
A
Acids (HHW)
Aerosol cans
All glass, any glass
Aluminium cans
Aluminium foil
Ammonia (HHW)
Auto Batteries (contact local council)
B
Band-Aids
Baskets
Batteries (HHW)
Beer bottles
Beer cartons
Blankets
Bleaches (HHW)
Books
Bottles (tops/lids off)
Bottle tops/lids
Bricks (C&D)
Broken glass
Building materials/waste (C&D)
Bulky items
C
Carbon paper
Cardboard (boxes & other types)
Car parts
Cassette tapes (audio & video)
Cellophane
Ceramic (broken plates, pots)
Cereal boxes
Cleaners (HHW)
Clothing/shoes
Cockroach bait (plastic)
Coffee jars & cans
Computer components/accessories
Computer paper
Concrete (C&D)
Cork
Cosmetic jars
Cotton wool
Cotton wool buds
Cups & saucers
Cutlery (plastic)
Cutlery (other)
D
Dirt and soil
Disposable nappies
Drink cans
E
Electrical appliances
Electrical equipment
Envelopes
F
Fertiliser (HHW)
Fly tape
Foam boxes
Foam meat trays
Foil
Food cans (rinsed)
Food and vegetable scraps
Fruit juice cartons
Furniture (fixed)
Furniture (broken)
G
Garden chemicals/poison (HHW)
Garden waste (small prunings and grass clippings)
Garden waste (large)
Gas cylinders
Glad wrap
Glass (All types)
Glossy magazines/brochures
Grease proof paper
H
Hosepipe (garden hose)
Household goods
I
Ice cream containers (cardboard)
Ice cream containers (plastic)
Insecticides (HHW)
J
Jars
Jar lids
Juice cartons/bottles/containers
Junk (too large for Green Bin)
Junk mail
K
Kitty litter
L
Large garden waste
Light bulbs/fluorescent tubes
Liquid paper board
Long-life cartons
Lunch boxes
M
Magazines
Manure/animal droppings
Margarine tubs
Meat trays
Medicines (HHW)
Milk bottles and milk cartons
Mineral Turpentine (HHW)
Mobile Phones
Motor Oil (contact local council)
N
Newspapers
Needles
O
Oil (motor) (HHW)
Oil (cooking)
P
Paint tins (empty)
Paint tins (not empty) (HHW)
Paper towel rolls
Paper bags
Pens/biros/textas/pencils
Pest control concentrates (HHW)
Pet food tins (rinsed)
Petrol and flammable liquids (HHW)
Phone books
Picture frames (broken)
Picture frames (fixed)
Pizza boxes
Placemats
Plastic containers
Plastic cutlery
Plastic bags empty
Plastic plant pots
Plate glass
Poison (liquid/solid) (HHW)
Pool chemicals (HHW)
Pottery
Polystyrene
Printer cartridges
Plastic bottle lids
Pyrex (ovenware)
R
Rat poison (HHW)
Rope
Rubber tyres
S
Sauce bottles (rinsed)
Seedling containers
Soft drink bottles (empty)
Soft drink cans
Soil
Sweet wrappers
Spirit bottles (empty)
Steel cans (rinsed)
T
Take-away food containers (rinsed)
Terracotta tiles/pots
Timber
Timber - treated
Tissues
Toilet paper rolls (inner)
Tops (jars/bottles)
Toys (broken)
Toys (fixed)
Tyres
V
Vacuum cleaner dust
Vinyl school bags (broken)
Vinyl school bags (fixed)
Other vinyl (kitchen tiles etc)
W
Waxed cardboard
Waxed paper
Weeds
White goods
Windowpanes
Wine bottles
Wood (gardening prunings)
Wooden planks/bits of wooden furniture
Wrapping paper
Y
Yoghurt containers