What can I recycle?
Landfill
Recycling
Glass
AlternativeAerosol cans (empty, remove lid)
Alkathene piping
Aluminium
Aluminium cans
Aluminium containers
Aluminium foil
Apple core
Asthma inhaler (empty)
Baby formula tins (remove lid and scoop)
Baby wipes
Banana skins
Batteries
Batteries (torch)
Beer bottles (remove lids)
Biscuit soft plastic wrapping
Bones
Books - soft cover
Boots
Bread bags
Bricks
Broken glass (wrap)
Broken plates (wrap)
Bubble wrap
Cables
Candle
Cardboard - remove staples and tape
Cardboard - washing powder box (remove liner & scoop)
Cardboard cup holders
Cardboard egg cartons
Cardboard Tetra Paks
Cardboard yoghurt containers
Cartons (non-dairy milk or juice)
Cat biscuit bags
Cat litter
Catalogues (remove wrapping)
Cellophane
Cereal boxes (remove inside bag)
Chemicals
Chip bags
Chocolate wrappers
Christmas wrapping paper (not plasticised or metallic)
Cigarette pack
Clothes
Coffee cups - biodegradable, compostable
Coffee cups - paper, cardboard
Coffee cups - wax or plastic lined
Compact disk case
Concrete
Cooking oil
Cookware - metal pots, pans, tins and utensils
Corflute
Cork
Corrugated cardboard (unwaxed)
Cottonwool
Crockery plates
Dirty recycling
Drinking glasses
Dust
EFTPOS receipt (thermal paper)
Electrical items
Envelopes
E-waste
Fabric
Fluorescent tubes (wrapped)
Food cans (clean only)
Food box - empty, clean unwaxed cardboard only
Food scraps
Fruit peelings
Fruit cores or peels
Garden hose
Garden netting (plastic)
Garden pots (plastic with number 3,4,6,7 in triangle)
Weeds - noxious or non-compostable only
Gib board
Glass (food and beverage bottles, no lids)
Glass (not used for food and beverage)
Glass bottles - brown, green, clear, blue, opaque (no lids)
Glass jars (no lids)
Glass lamp shade
Glass louvre window slats
Glasses, spectacles
Grass clippings
Gumboots
Hard plastic
Hazardous chemicals
Hazardous sprays
Hedge clippings
Hot ash
Ice cream container (plastic with number 1,2 or 5 in a triangle)
Insecticides
Jam jar lids
Large gas canisters
Lids - (all plastic lids except milk bottle tops)
Lids (metal lids from wine and beer bottles)
Light bulbs
Light globes (wrap)
Magazines
Citrus peel
Margarine containers (plastic with number 1, 2 or 5 in triangle, clean)
McDonald boxes (no food)
Meat tray (expanded polystyrene)
Meat tray (plastic container with number 1, 2 or 5 in triangle)
Medical waste
Medicine bottles, glass
Medicine sprayers / nasal spray bottle (empty)
Aluminium baking tray - flexible (clean)
Metal can lids (put inside can)
Metallic wrapping paper
Milk bottle tops
Milk cardboard containers
Milk cartons (wax or foil lined)
Mirrors (unbroken)
Motor oil
Nappies
Needles (wrapped)
Newspaper
Newspaper plastic packaging wrapper
Old books
Old curtains
Old purses/handbags
Oven tray
Packaging - cardboard
Packaging - food wrapping
Packaging - polystyrene
Paint
Paint tins
Paper - newspaper, junkmail, brochures, pamphlets, flyers
Paper - envelope
Paper - letter
Paper - torn, shredded
Paper bags (carry or clean food bags)
Paper towels (bathroom)
Paperback books
Pesticides
Phonebooks
Photos black and white or coloured
Pizza boxes (remove food scraps)
Pizza boxes (with food scraps or lots of oil)
Plant pots - clean (plastic with number 1, 2 & 5 in a triangle)
Plant punnets (with number 1, 2 & 5 in a triangle)
Planter bags
Plastic bags
Plastic bottle tops
Plastic cleaning bottles 1,2 & 5 (empty, lid and triggers removed)
Plastic containers (clean, with recycling number 1, 2 & 5)
Plastic containers 3, 4, 6 & 7
Plastic cups 1, 2 & 5 (clean, lids and straws removed)
Plastic feed sacks
Plastic film
Plastic firelighter
Plastic foam
Plastic medicine containers 1, 2 & 5 (empty and clean, lid removed)
Plastic milk bottles (remove lid)
Plastic number 1 (clean)
Plastic number 2 (clean, no plastic bags)
Plastic number 3
Plastic number 4
Plastic number 5 (clean)
Plastic number 6
Plastic number 7
Plastic packaging/container with no number
Plastic pill containers 1, 2 & 5 (remove lid)
Plastic shampoo bottles 1,2 & 5 (empty, remove lid)
Plastic toys
Plastic wrap
Plasticised receipts (cannot be ripped)
Plate glass
Polystyrene
Polystyrene - expanded
Pot plant container (clean, with number 1, 2 & 5 in a triangle)
Pringles pot/container
Printer toner cartridge
Produce bags (plastic with number 1-7 in a triangle)
PVC spouting
Pyrex
Ring binder/folder
Rope
Rotten meat
Rubber bands
Rubber hose
Rubbish
Sand
Sandwich containers (with number 1,2 & 5 in a triangle)
Sanitary pads and tampons (wrap)
Seed trays (clean, with number 1,2 & 5 in a triangle)
Seedling container (clean, no number)
Shoes
Shopping bags, supermarket bags
Shredded paper
Shrink wrap
Small gas canisters (fly spray) - empty
Smoke alarms
Soft drink bottles (remove lids)
Soft plastics (scrunchy plastics)
Solvents
Soy milk carton
Steel
Steel cans (clean)
Stripped wallpaper
Supermarket fruit and vegetable bags
Takeaway containers (cardboard or plastic with number 1, 2 & 5 in a triangle) - clean
Tapes or videos
Textiles
Till receipt - eftpos, thermal paper
Tin cans (clean, lid inside)
Tin foil
Tissue
Toilet rolls
Toothpaste boxes
Toothpaste pump
Toothpaste tube
Tray (expanded polystyrene)
Tuna can (clean)
Unwashed containers
Vacuum bag
Vacuum dust
Video cassettes
Wallpaper
Washing powder box (remove scoop & liner)
Washing powder plastic scoop
Waste oil
Water bottles (plastic with number 1,2 or 5 in triangle, lid removed)
Water filter unit
Wax covered cardboard cartons
Waxed paper
Wet paper
Window glass (wrapped)
Wine bottles (no lids)
Wood - untreated
Wrap, gladwrap, film, cling film
Wrapping paper
Large yogurt containers (clean, number 1,2 & 5 in a triangle)
Zip-lock bags
Meat bones
Chicken bones
Fish bones
Vegetable peelings
Raw or cooked meat
Bread
Dairy - cheese, yoghurt
Cooked food
Kitchen paper towels
Dead flowers
Indoor cut flowers
Coffee grounds
Tea leaves
Egg shells
Seafood shells
Drink scraps
Compostable food or drink containers
Plastic or compostable bags
Home compostable packaging
Fat - cooled only
Weeds
Garden waste
Milk bottles (plastic with a 1,2 or 5 in a triangle, clean no lids)
Ash - cooled (wrap)
Ash - hot
Compostable packaging
Pet waste (bag or wrap)
Reusable items
Juice box
Foil bag
Foil wrapper
Plastic coated paper (cannot be ripped)
Paper - coloured or glossy
Produce bags (plastic)
Receipts - paper
Receipts - eftpos (thermal paper)
Books - hard cover
Paper - stapled
Wood - treated
Wrapping paper - metallic, plasticised
Plastic cup (no number in triangle)
Mirrors (broken - wrap)
Nappies - compostable
Packaging - soft plastic
Mushroom bag - paper
Carry bag - plastic, textile
Till receipt - paper
Baking paper
Plastic cutlery
Food box plastic bags with wool liner
Tea bags - paper, cornstarch, cellulose
Tea bags - Nylon or polyethylene bags, synthetic fibres
Aluminium Tubes
Blister Packs (pill/tablet packs)
Chux Cloth
Biscuit trays (1,2 & 5 )
Biscuit trays ( 3,4,6 & 7)
Small yogurt containers (clean, number 1, 2 & 5 in a triangle)
Face mask (medical)
Light bulbs (fluorescent)
Deodorant Bottle (glass)
Insulated food bags
Gel Ice Packs
Plant based plastic milk bottle
Bucket (even with a recycling number 5)
Clothes hanger
Mattress
