Benefits of using recycling facilities
There are many reasons why you should take items that can be recycled to a recycling facility, including:
- The material will be processed and made into usable mulch, construction materials or compost, so that the carbon content is returned to the soil instead of going to landfill and escaping into the atmosphere. This ultimately results in less greenhouse gas emissions.
- You can take your garden and timber waste to these facilities for free if you use your green and timber waste disposal vouchers.
- Taking your waste to landfill can cost you money.
- For many residents, the following recycling facilities are closer to travel to than the landfill.
Green waste and brick recycling facility - SUEZ
The Green Waste and Bricky Recycling Facility accepts the green waste disposal vouchers and brick and rubble waste vouchers found on your Rates Notice. The site also sells high-quality compost.
Address
480 Cooper Street
Epping VIC 3076
(Melway 181 A10)
P: 13 13 35 or 8401 4270
W: www.sita.com.au
Opening hours
Monday to Sunday: 8am - 3.45pm
Public holidays
Closed on:
- Christmas Day
- Boxing Day
- New Year’s Day
- Good Friday
- ANZAC Day
Acceptable items
The facility accepts the following items:
- tree branches and prunings (less than 30cm in diameter)
- shrubs
- lawn clippings
- common garden weeds
- asphalt
- rock
- concrete
- bricks
Unacceptable green waste items
The facility does not accept the following:
- tree roots or stumps
- soil
- diseased material
- garbage
- wire
Timber waste recycling facility - Mossrock Mulch
This timber waste recycling facility accepts the timber waste disposal vouchers found on your Rates Notice.
Run by Mossrock Mulch, this facility recycles industrial packaging and general timber waste into high-quality mulch and soft fall that it sells.
Address
480 Cooper Street
Epping VIC 3076
(Melway 181 A10)
P: 9408 7900
E: mossrock@bigpond.com.au
W: www.mossrock.com.au
Opening hours
Monday to Friday: 8am - 3.45pm
Saturday: 8am - midday
Sunday: Closed
Public holidays
Closed on:
- Christmas Day
- Boxing Day
- New Year’s Day
- Good Friday
- ANZAC Day
Acceptable timber waste items
The facility accepts the following items:
- fence palings
- packing crates
- pallets
- timber off-cuts
Unacceptable timber waste items
The facility does not accept the following:
- laminated timber
- painted timber
- melamine
- treated pine
- plaster
PVC pipe recycling facility - Nationwide Connect
You can recycle off-cuts of PVC products that would normally be sent to landfill through Nationwide Connect Recycling, which turns the material into new plastic pipe. Please call to arrange a drop-off.
Address
5 Gipps Court
Epping VIC 3076
(Melway 181 J10)
P: 9408 4414
E: nwcrecycling@bigpond.com
W: www.nwcrecycling.com.au
White goods recycler - Kids Off The Kerb Pty Ltd
Please call to arrange a free home collection or to drop-off your white goods.
Address
9 Dunstans Court
Thomastown VIC 3074
Opening hours
- Open Monday to Friday, 9am - 4pm
- 9982 5600
- Kids Off the Kerb website
Kids Off the Kerb refurbishes suitable white goods and sells them at their Thomastown location and on eBay.
They accept the following items:
- refrigerators
- freezers
- washing machines
- dryers
- microwaves
- dishwashers
- ovens
- stoves
- rangehoods
- cooktops
- oil based column heaters
- split cooling systems
- hot plates
- flat screen televisions
For more options to recycle your white goods, see Hard waste collection.
Recycling stations
Council has six recycling stations to help you get rid of items that don't belong in your garbage bin in an environmentally friendly way.
You can drop off the following items at the recycling stations:
- x-rays
- printer cartridges
- batteries
- personal music players such as iPods and MP3 players
- mobile phones
- cameras and camera accessories
- dvds and cds
- fluorescent light globes and tubes
Recycling stations are located at:
- Lalor Library, 2A May Road, Lalor
- Civic Centre, 25 Ferres Boulevard, South Morang
- Epping Depot, 68-96 Houston Street, Epping
- Melbourne Polytechnic Library, corner on Dalton Road and Cooper Street, Epping
- Laurimar Activity Centre, 110 Hazel Glen Drive, Doreen
- Whittlesea Library, 57-61 Laurel Street, Whittlesea.