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Recycling

What you can recycle

Paper and cardboard - including newspapers, magazines, brochures, office paper, envelopes, cardboard boxes (no waxed fruit boxes). Flatten cardboard boxes; no waxed cardboard boxes or pizza boxes

Glass jars and bottles (clear, brown and green glass)

Milk and juice cartons

Aluminium cans

Steel cans and steel aerosol cans (no lids)

Rigid, disposable plastic bottles  Some examples of these plastics include:
 

(PET) - like clear and coloured soft drink bottles 

(HDPE) - like 2L and 3L milk bottles 

(vinyl) - includes plastic cordial and juice bottles

(LDPE) - includes ice cream container lids  

(PP) - includes ice cream containers and take-away containers

(PS) - note that expanded polystyrene foam (EPS) is not accepted in the yellow lid bin

(Other) - All other resins and multi-materials. Please wash any plastic meat trays of excess blood

 

Don't forget!
Please take lids off bottles, jars and aerosol cans, and rinse bottles, jars and cans before putting them in the bin.

What not to put into your recycle bin

PLEASE DO NOT PUT PLASTIC BAGS OR STYROFOAM INTO RECYCLING BINS

Household rubbish, food scraps and nappies

Clothing, food and textiles

Garden vegetation

Crockery, ceramics, porcelain, light globes, window glass, frosted glass and mirrors

Waxed cardboard boxes

Pizza boxes and paper soiled with food scraps

Oil and paint tins

Chemicals and hazardous materials

Syringes

Liquids

Don't know what to recycle? Call Council on 9789 9300 before putting it out.

Yellow for Recycling

Recycling is collected only from the yellow lid recycling bins.  Houses, villas and townhouses have a 240L yellow lid recycling bins emptied every 2 weeks; units have 240L yellow lid recycling bins to be shared 1 bin between 3 units and emptied weekly. Recycling is collected on the same day as your rubbish.  Recycling not inside a bin (eg. loose cardboard boxes) will not be collected.

What week is my recycling collected? (Houses, Villas, Townhouses)

If you live in a house, villa or townhouse, your recycling will be collected every 2 weeks on the same day as your rubbish. Check your recycling calendar to find out which week to put out your recycling, or call Council  on 9789 9300 to receive a calendar or download the applicable one from the panel on the right hand side of this page.

Easy Guide to Recycling

The Department of Environment and Conservation NSW states that "Australians love to recycle. In fact, we are one of the best recycling nations in the world! But recycling can be tricky, this (Easy Guide to Recycling) brochure offers some tips on how to make it a little easier."

Recycling Card

We have reproduced our easy-to-understand Recycling Card in a number of community languages. This card will show you what recyclable materials you can place into yellow-lid bins and which waste materials cannot be recycled. This is just another way we are encouraging "Living with Less Waste"!

 English -- Recycling Card (481KB)

 Arabic -- Recycling Card (1.17MB)

 Chinese -- Recycling Card (1.14MB)

 Greek -- Recycling Card (1.09MB)

 Italian -- Recycling Card (1.1MB)

 Korean -- Recycling Card (1.16MB)

 Vietnamese -- Recycling Card (1.11MB)