A-Z Recycling guide for residents
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Acids/Alkalis
6
Aerosol cans
4
Aluminium cans
2
3
13
Aluminium foil
2
3
Animal droppings
7
9
Asbestos
6
Ash
7
9
Auto Batteries
4
Batteries
4
Beer bottles
2
3
13
Beer cartons
2
3
Bird Netting
1
Blankets
6
Bleaches
5
Bones
9
7
Books
2
3
Bottle tops - plastic
13
Bottles
2
Branches
7
9
Bricks
3
Broken glass
1
8
Bubble wrap
1
3
8
12
building materials
3
Bullets, ammunition and firearms
6
Cane Baskets
3
Cans
2
3
13
Car batteries
4
Car parts (metal)
3
Cardboard
2
3
Carpet
8
CD/DVD & Floppy Drives
10
Ceramics
1
3
8
Cereal boxes
2
3
Chip packets
1
12
Cleaning products
5
Clothes Dryer
3
Clothing & shoes
1
Coat Hanger Plastic
1
Cockroach baits
5
Coffee cups disposable - not recyclable due to plastic liner
1
Coffee jars/tins
2
3
Computers & accessories
10
Concrete
8
Cooking oil
4
Cork
7
CRT/LCD Monitors
10
Cutlery (metal)
3
Cutlery (plastic)
1
8
Dead Animals
7
8
Dentures
1
Dirt & soil
6
Disposable cups - not recyclable due to plastic liner
1
Disposable nappies
1
Drilling Mud
6
Drink cans
2
3
13
Drums
2
3
Egg cartons
2
3
Electrical appliances
10
Electrical cables
10
Electrical equipment
10
Fertilisers
5
Fiberglass insulation
1
8
Fire Extinguishers
4
Foam meat trays
2
3
Foil
2
3
Food
7
9
Fridge/Freezer
3
Fruit & vegie scraps
7
9
Fruit juice cartons
2
3
Furniture (broken)
8
Furniture (usable)
3
8
Garden chemicals
5
Garden Clippings
7
9
Garden hoses
1
3
8
Gas Bottle
4
Glad wrap
1
12
Glass broken
1
8
Glass jars
2
3
Glassware
3
Grass Clippings
7
9
Green Waste
7
9
Hair
9
7
Hubs/Routers/Switches
10
Ice cream containers
2
3
Insecticides
5
Jars
2
3
Junk mail brochures
2
3
Keyboards & Mice
10
Kitty litter
7
9
Laptops
10
Lawn Clippings
7
9
Light bulbs (fluroscent)
4
Light bulbs (older glass style)
1
8
Lounge Suite
8
Magazines
2
3
Manure
7
8
Margarine containers
2
3
Mattresses including Futons
1
8
Meat Trays
2
3
Medicines
5
Metal
3
Microwave Oven
3
Milk containers
2
3
Mobile phones
10
Modems
10
Motor Oil
4
Nappies
1
8
Needles and Syringes
6
Network equipment
10
Newspaper
2
3
Oil (cooking)
4
Oil (mineral)
4
Oil drums
2
3
Paint
4
Paint tins (empty)
4
3
Paper bags
2
3
Paper towels
2
3
Pet food tins
2
3
Petrol
5
Phone books
2
3
Photocopiers
10
Pizza boxes
2
7
Plastic bags
8
12
Plastic bottle lids
2
3
Plastic Buckets
2
3
Plastic containers
2
3
plastic meat trays
2
3
Plastic plant pots
2
3
Plastic Wrap
12
1
Poisons
5
Polystyrene foam
1
8
Pool chemicals
5
Pottery
3
Power Supplies
10
Power Tools
10
Printer cartridges
6
Printers/Scanners & Fax Machines
10
Projectors
10
Pyrex
3
Rat poison
5
Refrigerator
3
Rope
1
3
8
Sauce bottles
2
3
Seafood
9
7
Seedling containers
2
3
Soap
1
8
Soft drink bottles
2
13
3
Soft drink cans
2
13
3
Soil
6
Spirit bottles
2
3
Steel
3
Steel cans
2
3
Styrofoam
1
8
Tablets (computer)
10
Take away food containers (plastic)
2
3
Teflon Cookware
3
Telephones
10
Terracotta pots
3
1
8
Tetra Packs
3
2
Timber
3
8
Timber (treated)
3
8
Tissues
1
Toilet paper rolls
2
3
Toner Cartridges
10
Toothbrushes
1
Toothpaste tubes
1
Toys
3
Toys (broken)
1
8
TV's
10
Tyres
3
UPS's
10
Vacuum cleaner dust
1
8
7
9
VCR's/DVD's, Set Top Boxes
10
Washing Machine
3
Waxed cardboard
2
3
Weeds (declared)
6
Weeds (non declared)
7
9
White goods
3
Windows
3
Wine bottles
2
3
Wood
3
9
Wooden furniture
3
Wrapping paper
2
3
X Ray Film
6
1
Yoghurt containers
2
3
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