Make sure your recyclables are clean and dry before putting them in your recycling bin. Always put your recycling into the bin loose.
Yes please! These items can go in your recycling bin
- Paper and cardboard
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- Paper, newspaper (remove any plastic wrapping)
- Magazines, junk mail, flyers
- Greeting cards, postcards
- Envelopes (with or without plastic windows)
- Wrapping paper (excluding foil or plastic wrapping)
- Paper bags
- Cardboard boxes (unwaxed, flattened)
- Pizza boxes (without food or oil stains)
- Egg cartons
- Glass bottles and jars
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- Sauce bottles
- Drink containers
- Jars from jams, spreads
- Coffee jars
- Salsa, pasta sauce jars
- Plastic bottles and hard plastic containers (numbered 1, 2 or 5)
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- Milk bottles
- Water, soft drink bottles
- Yoghurt, Ice cream containers
- Cleaning, detergent, shampoo bottles
- Margarine and butter tubs
- Meat trays (excluding black trays)
- Medicine bottles
- Steel cans
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- Fruit tins
- Vegetable cans
- Pet food cans
- Aerosol cans (empty)
- Aluminium cans and foil
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- Drink cans
- Food cans
- Pet food cans
- Aerosol cans (empty)
- Aluminium foil (scrunch into a loose ball)
- Aluminium trays
No thanks – these items cannot go in your recycling bin
- Batteries, light globes
- Electronics (anything with a plug, battery or power cord)
- Paint
- Gas cannisters
- Food, liquids
- Garden clippings, tree branches
- General waste, garbage
- Broken glass
- Drinking glassware, ceramics
- Window glass
- Plastic bags
- Soft plastic such as bread bags, chip packets, lolly wrappers
- Plastics numbered 3, 4, 6 or 7
- Medicine blister packs
- Black plastics, such as meat trays or plant pots
- Fresh milk, juice and Tetrapak cartons
- Polystyrene
- Clothing, shoes and textiles
- Photographs
- Waxed paper and cardboard
Understanding packaging labels
Turn any plastic item over and check if it has a recycling label with a number in the centre of it.
The label will provide you with easy recycling information and can help remove confusion, saving you time and reducing waste to landfill.
For more information on Australian recycling labels please check out this link:
Australian Recycling Labels
Council accepts rigid and semi-rigid plastics numbered one, two, and five.
Plastics six and seven belong in your general waste bin.