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A-Z guide to waste and recycling

A-Z guide to waste and recycling

This guide will help you determine the best way to dispose of unwanted items, and easily identify which items can be recycled or recovered.

You should try to reduce, reuse, recycle and buy recycled, to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.

Please donate, giveaway or sell any clothing, furniture or toys that are in good condition. For more tips, see Reducing your waste.

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

Asbestos

  • Is accepted at Wollert Landfill however you must meet EPA guidelines when transporting and removing 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

Batteries - household

Batteries - mobile phone

Biscuit trays (not including the soft plastic packaging on the outside)

Blankets

Bottles (glass & plastic)

Bricks and building materials

Building and renovation material

C

Cameras including accessories

Cans (aluminium, steel & tin)

Car batteries

Cardboard

Carpet and underlay

CDs & DVDs

Ceramic plates & dishes

Chemical drums (empty) – crop and farm chemicals

Chemicals - household cleaning, garden and automotive

Christmas tree

Cigarette butts

Clothing (suitable for reuse)

Clothing (not suitable for reuse)

Coffee cups - takeaway

Coffee grounds

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.

Cups (ceramic, glass & polystyrene)

Cups (paper)

D

Dishwasher

  • Book a collection by calling Kids Off The Kerb on 9982 5600 or drop off to:
    Kids Off The Kerb
    9 Dunstans Court, Thomastown
    Open Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm

Dog droppings

E

Egg cartons

E-waste (any household appliance with a battery or cord)

  • Take to one of the designated recycling skips at: 
    • Hanson’s Wollert Landfill, 55 Bridge Inn Road, Wollert
    • Surplus Recycling Solutions Pty Ltd, 304-308 Mahoneys Road, Thomastown.

  • Please note: From 1 July 2019, the Victorian Government will introduce a ban on the disposal of e-waste through kerbside rubbish collections.

F

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

Food scraps

Fridges

  • Drop off to:
    Kids Off The Kerb
    9 Dunstans Court, Thomastown
    Open Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm

Fuels (petrol, diesel and kerosene)

Furniture (not suitable for reuse)

G

Garden waste

Gas bottles

Glass bottles and jars (lids off)

Glass waste and ceramics (including crockery, drinking glasses, Pyrex glass, ovenware, window glass, mirrors and light bulbs)

Glasses – sighted and reading (not broken)

  • Take to a OPSM or Budget Eyeware store

Glues

H

Herbicides and weed killers

Hot water service unit

Handtowel

  • Put in your garbage bin

I

Ice-cream containers

IPods, iPhones and iPads

  • Visit the Apple website
  • Take to our recycling station at the Epping Depot, Civic Centre or Laurimar Activity Centre

Irons (household)

J

K

L

Laptop computers

Take to:

To recycle Apple products, see the Apple website.

For other locations, visit RecyclingNearYou website.

Lawn clippings

Light bulbs (not fluorescent)

Liquid soap & moisturiser pump packs

M

Margarine containers

Mattresses

Medicines

  • Return to your local pharmacy

Metal waste (including household irons)

Microwaves

  • If your microwave still works, you can book a collection by calling Phoenix on 1300 366 283
  • Whether your microwave works or not, book a 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

Milk and juice cartons (including tetra packs)

Mirrors (broken)

Mobile phones including accessories

Motor oil

MP3 players and personal music players

N

Nappies

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)

Phones (mobile)

Pizza boxes

  • Put in your recycling bin - remove any loose food from the box

Plant pots

Plastic bags

  • Return to major supermarkets.
  • Take to any Coles supermarket to be recycled into furniture for schools, kindergartens and community groups through REDcycle.

Plastic containers & bottles (including plastic takeaway food containers)

Plastics (soft plastics including cling wrap, bubble wrap, biscuit packets, lolly bags, pasta bags, frozen food bags and soft plastic packaging)

  • Take to any Coles or Woolworths supermarket
  • Put in your garbage bin.

Polystyrene packaging

Polystyrene trays

Pool chemicals

Printer & toner cartridges

Q

R

Refrigerators

  • Book a free collection by calling Phoenix on 1300 366 283, or Kids Off The Kerb on 9982 5600
  • Drop off to:
    Kids Off The Kerb
    9 Dunstans Court, Thomastown
    Open Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm

S

Scrap metal

Sheets and pillow cases (not suitable for reuse)

  • Take to the Epping Animal Welfare Facility, 20 Companion Place, Epping
  • Take to SCR Group Hub

Shampoo & conditioner bottles

Shredded paper

  • Put in your home compost bin or worm farm
  • Put it in your garbage bin

Smoke alarms

Soil and rocks

Syringes

T

Tea bags

Television

Take to:

Timber

Tissues

Toasters

Towels (not suitable for reuse)

  • Take to the Epping Animal Welfare Facility, 20 Companion Place, Epping
  • Take to a SCR Group Hub

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

Video/VHS cassettes

W

Water bottles (up to 15L)

Waxed paper & cardboard

Weeds (common)

Whitegoods (fridges, washing machines, dishwashers and clothes driers)

  • Book a free collection by calling Phoenix on 1300 366 283 (dishwashers and stoves not accepted)
  • Book a collection by calling Kids Off The Kerb on 9982 5600 or drop off to:
    Kids Off The Kerb
    9 Dunstans Court, Thomastown
    Open Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm

Window glass

Wrap in newspaper, bag and then:

X

X-rays

Y

Yoghurt tubs