What you can put in your recycling
Find out what you can and can't put in your kerbside recycling bin.
What you can put in your yellow recycling bin
- Aluminium and tin cans
- Plastic bottles and containers numbered 1, 2 and 5
- Flat cardboard and paper - envelopes, magazines, junk mail, egg cartons, and pizza boxes (you must remove pizza scraps and cheese residue)
What you can't put in your recycling bin
- Anything contaminated with food - wash it first, don't squash
- Aluminium foil, sachets and food trays
- Appliances - take them to Earthlink
- Batteries - put single use batteries (button and alkaline batteries) in your rubbish and save others for a hazardous waste collection day
- Baby car seats - take them to a SeatSmart recycling site
- Bottle tops and anything smaller than 5 centimetres in diameter
- Cartons - juice, milk and tetrapaks (they are lined with plastic)
- Ceramic - cups and plates
- Clothing - use local clothing bins
- Computers including parts and accessories - take to Earthlink for re-use and repair or a drop-off point supporting TechCollect
- Food scraps - try composting
- Kitchen utensils made from plastic, metal and wood - take to Earthlink or op shops
- Lids smaller than 5 centimetres in diameter
- Light bulbs
- Medical waste of any kind - return it to the hospital
- Mirrors
- Nappies of any kind
- Pizza boxes that are dirty
- Plastic numbered 3, 4, 6 and 7
- Plastic toys - take to op shops or toy libraries if still usable
- Polystyrene - cups, containers and packaging
- Pumps and triggers from bottles eg. soap dispensers or liquid sprays
- Soft plastics (bread bags, bubble wrap, chip packets, ice cream wrappers, plastic wrap/clingfilm) - take to a soft plastics collection point
- Waxed paper
- Wood including toys and utensils - take to toy libraries or op shops