A
Aerosol cans
Air conditioners (split systems)
- Book a free collection by calling Kids Off The Kerb on 9982 5600
- Drop off to Wollert Landfill for free recycling
Aluminium foil, trays & cans
- Put in your recycling bin. Collect foil until you can make a ball about the size of a lemon.
- Take to the skip bin at Wollert Landfill for free recycling
Asbestos
Ash
- Let cool, then put on your garden or in your home compost bin
- Let cool, bag and place in garbage bin
B
Baking tray
Balloons
- Put in garbage bin
- Please do not use balloons outdoors. Use flags, bubbles, bunting or banners instead. Council run community events are balloon free. For more information see Melbourne Zoo
Bassinettes (suitable for reuse, less than 10 years old)
Bassinettes (old or damaged)
Batteries - household
Batteries - mobile phone
Biscuit trays (not including the soft plastic packaging on the outside)
Blankets
Bottles (glass and plastic)
Bricks and building materials
Building and renovation material
C
Cameras including accessories
Cans (aluminium, steel & tin)
Car batteries
Car engines
- SRS Metals Pty Ltd
304-308 Mahoneys Road, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday - 8am to 4pm, Saturday - 8am to 12.30pm
- Take to an car scrap recycler
Car parts
- SRS Metals Pty Ltd
304-308 Mahoneys Road, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday - 8am to 4pm, Saturday - 8am to 12.30pm
- Take to an car scrap recycler
Cardboard
Carpet and underlay
CDs & DVDs
Ceramic plates & dishes
Chemical drums (empty) – crop and farm chemicals
Chemicals - household cleaning, garden and automotive
Child car restraints (suitable for resuse, less than 10 years old)
Child car restraints (old or damaged)
Christmas tree
Cigarette butts
Clothing (suitable for reuse)
Clothing (not suitable for reuse)
Coffee cups - takeaway
Coffee grounds
Coffee pods
Column heater - oil based
- Book a free collection by calling Kids Off The Kerb on 9982 5600
- Drop off to:
Kids Off The Kerb
9 Dunstans Court, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm
Computers, printers & accessories
You can take your broken desktop PCs, laptops, printers, scanners, monitors, hard drives, CD/DVD drives, keyboards, mice, power supplies, memory cards and floppy disks to:
To recycle Apple products, see the Apple website.
For other locations, visit RecyclingNearYou website.
Concrete
Cooking oil (used)
Cooking oil containers
Copper & electrical cable
Corks from bottles
- Put in your garbage bin. Cork is no longer recycled within Victoria.
Cots (suitable for reuse, less than 10 years old)
Cots (old or damaged)
Cups (ceramic, glass & polystyrene)
Cups (paper)
D
Dishwasher
- Book a collection by calling Kids Off The Kerb on 9982 5600
Drop off for free to:
- Kids Off The Kerb
9 Dunstans Court, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm
- Transfer station at Wollert Landfill
- SRS Metals Pty Ltd
304-308 Mahoneys Road, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm and Saturday, 8am - 12.30pm
Dog droppings
E
Egg cartons
E-waste (any household appliance with a plug, cord or battery)
E-waste can no longer be accepted in any bin or picked up through Council's hard waste collection service.
- Free e-waste drop off points
Take any household electrical items, such as televisions, computers, tablets, printers, vacuum cleaners, toasters, hair dryers, video and DVD players, electrical tools and electronic toys to the designated e-waste recycling skips at:
Transfer Station at Wollert Landfill
SRS Metals Pty Ltd 304-308 Mahoneys Road, Thomastown Open Monday to Friday, 8am - 4pm and Saturday, 8am - 12.30pm
- Free Whitegoods Collection Service
For large household appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, dish washers, microwaves, etc, book a free whitegoods collection by calling Kids Off The Kerb on 9982 5600. (Note: Kids Off The Kerb are currently experiencing long waiting periods for collections. You can drop them off free to Kids Off The Kerb in Thomastown, the transfer station at Wollert Landfill or Surplus Recycling Solutions in Thomastown.)
Take cameras, mobile phones, household batteries, CDs, DVDs, fluorescent light globes, printer cartridges, X-rays and small electrical appliances like IPods, electric tooth brushes and calculators to one of our Recycling Stations.
F
Face masks
Fence palings
- Take natural or stained wood fence palings (not painted) to the Timber waste recycling facility in Epping - charges apply or you can use your timber waste voucher on your rates notice
Fertilisers
Fire extinguishers
Fluorescent light globes
Foil
- Scrunch into a ball and put in your recycling bin
- Take to Wollert Landfill for free recycling
Food scraps
Fridges
- Book a collection by calling Kids Off The Kerb on 9982 5600 (Note: Kids Off The Kerb are currently experiencing long waiting periods for collections)
Drop off for free to:
- Kids Off The Kerb
9 Dunstans Court, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm
- Transfer station at Wollert Landfill
- SRS Metals Pty Ltd
304-308 Mahoneys Road, Thomatown
Open Monday to Friday, 8am - 4pm and Saturday, 8am - 12.30pm
Fuels (petrol, diesel and kerosene)
Furniture (not suitable for reuse)
G
Garden waste
Gas bottles
Glass bottles and jars (including lids)
Glass waste and ceramics (including crockery, drinking glasses, Pyrex glass, ovenware, window glass, mirrors and light bulbs)
Glasses – sighted and reading (not broken)
- Return your pre-loved reading glasses to an OPSM or Spec Savers store
Gloves
Glues
H
Helium gas tank
Herbicides and weed killers
Hot water service unit
Hand towel
High chair (suitable for reuse, less than 10 years old)
- Donate good quality baby and children's equipment and clothing to Big Group Hug
Ice-cream containers
IPods, iPhones and iPads
Irons (household)
J
K
Kitty litter
L
Laptop computers
Take to:
To recycle Apple products, see the Apple website.
For other locations, visit RecyclingNearYou website.
Lawn clippings
Lids (from plastic bottles)
Light bulbs (incandescent)
Light bulbs (including fluorescent globes, compact fluorescent globes, high-intensity discharge lamps and LEDs)
Liquid soap & moisturiser pump packs
M
Margarine containers
Mattresses
Medicines
- Return to your local pharmacy
Metal waste (including household irons)
Microwaves
- Book a collection by calling Kids Off the Kerb on 9982 5600 (Note: Kids Off The Kerb are currently experiencing long waiting periods for collections)
Drop off for free to:
- Kids Off The Kerb
9 Dunstans Court, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm
- Transfer station at Wollert Landfill
- SRS Metals Pty Ltd
304-308 Mahoneys Road, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 8am - 4pm and Saturday, 8am - 12.30pm
Milk and juice cartons (including liquid paperboard and Tetra Paks)
Mirrors (broken)
- Wrap in newspaper, bag and then:
Mobile phones including accessories
Motor oil
MP3 players and personal music players
N
Nappies
- Put in your garbage bin. Dispose of poo into the toilet.
Needles
Newspaper
O
Office products
Ovens (rangehoods, cook tops, and hot plates)
- Book a free collection by calling Kids Off The Kerb on 9982 5600
- Drop off to:
Kids Off The Kerb
9 Dunstans Court, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm
P
Paint and empty paint tins
Pallets
Paper
- Put in your recycling bin (put small pieces of paper - less than 7.5cm long and wide - in an envelope or paper bag first)
- Take to Wollert Landfill for free recycling
- Take to Visy Coolaroo Office, 13 Reo Crescent, Campbellfield
Paper (shredded)
Paper towel (soiled)
Pen and markers
- Return to Officeworks for recycling
Phones (mobile)
Pizza boxes
- Put in your recycling bin - remove any food residue from the box.
Plant pots
Plastic bags
- Return to any Coles or Woolworths supermarket to be recycled. Visit the REDcycle website for a full list of what can be recycled.
- Put in your garbage bin.
Plastic containers & bottles (including plastic takeaway food containers), labelled 1,2,3,4 or 5
Plastics (soft plastics including cling wrap, bubble wrap, biscuit packets, lolly bags, pasta bags, frozen food bags and soft plastic packaging)
- Return to any Coles or Woolworths supermarket to be recycled. Visit the REDcycle website for a full list of what can be recycled.
- Put in your garbage bin.
Polystyrene packaging
Polystyrene trays
Pool chemicals
Prams/strollers (suitable for reuse, less than 10 years old)
Prams/strollers (old or damaged)
Printers & accessories
Take to:
Printer cartridges & toner cartridges
Q
Quit covers
R
Receipts
Refrigerators
- Book a collection by Kids Off The Kerb on 9982 5600 (Note: Kids Off The Kerb are currently experiencing long waiting periods for collections)
Drop off for free to:
- Kids Off The Kerb
9 Dunstans Court, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm
- Transfer station at Wollert Landfill
- SRS Metals Pty Ltd
304-308 Mahoneys Road, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 8am - 4pm and Saturday, 8am - 12.30pm
S
Sanitary products
Scrap metal
Sheets and pillow cases (not suitable for reuse)
Shampoo & conditioner bottles
Shopping receipts
Shredded paper
Smoke alarms
Soil and rocks
Soft plastic packaging (such as bags, bubble wrap, and food/cling wrap)
- Do the scrunch test - if it is clean, plastic and easily scrunched into a ball like a chip packet or glad wrap then it is soft plastic.
- Return to any Coles or Woolworths supermarket to be recycled. Visit the REDcycle website for a full list of what can be recycled.
Straws (plastic disposable)
Syringes
T
Tea bags
Television
Take to:
TetraPak (such as milk and juice cartons)
Timber
Tissues
Tissue paper
Toasters
Drop off for free to:
- Transfer station at Wollert Landfill
-
SRS Metals Pty Ltd
304-308 Mahoneys Road, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 8am - 4pm and Saturday, 8am - 12.30pm
Towels (not suitable for reuse)
Toys (unsuitable for reuse)
Tyres
- Contact your local tyre store and ask them if they will accept your unwanted tyres for recycling
- Take to Wollert Landfill for recycling (charges apply)
U
V
Vacuum cleaners
Drop off for free to:
- Transfer station at Wollert Landfill
-
SRS Metals Pty Ltd
304-308 Mahoneys Road, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 8am - 4pm and Saturday, 8am - 12.30pm
Video/VHS cassettes
W
Water bottles (up to 15L)
Waxed paper & cardboard
Weeds (common)
Whitegoods (microwaves, fridges, washing machines, dishwashers and clothes driers)
Take to:
- Kids Off The Kerb
9 Dunstans Court, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm
- SRM Metals Pty Ltd
304-308 Mahoneys Road, Thomastown
Open Monday to Friday, 8am-4pm and Saturday, 8am-12.30pm
- Transfer station at Wollert Landfill
Window glass
Wrap in newspaper, bag and then:
Wipes - for babies, hands and face
X
X-rays
Y
Yoghurt tubs