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What You CAN Recycle

What You CAN Recycle: Welcome
What Can Go In
Your yellow-lidded recycling bin is most commonly used for everyday household packaging items that can be found in your bathroom, kitchen or laundry. Placing the wrong items in your yellow-lidded recycling bin, can result in contamination issues and may even cause an entire load of materials to end up going to landfill. Furthermore, non-acceptable items will reduce the value and quality of other recyclable materials collected.
By having a better understanding of what to recycle, we can:
♻️ Reduce recycle items going to landfill
♻️ Reduce contamination levels and associated charges
♻️ Reduce costs to rate payers and local councils
♻️ Help our environment by using recyclable materials as a waste resource instead of sending it to landfill
The items listed below CAN be placed in your yellow-lidded recycling bin
Paper and Cardboard
✅ Advertising material, catalogues & junk mail
✅ Binder dividers & Index cards
✅ Books, notepads & writing paper
✅ Butcher paper, uncoated deli paper, fish and chip paper
✅ Cane paper
✅ Cardboard boxes (flattened, unwaxed, clean & dry)
✅ Cereal boxes
✅ Egg cartons
✅ Envelopes (white & manilla)
✅ Envelopes (with or without plastic windows)
✅ Glossy brochures & flyers
✅ Greeting cards
✅ Newspapers & magazines
✅ Office, Computer & Photocopy Paper
✅ Paper bags
✅ Paper towel roll inserts (empty)
✅ Phonebooks
✅ Pizza boxes (food scraped out)
✅ Shredded paper (if enclosed in an unwaxed cardboard/shoe box or paperbag)
✅ Tissue boxes
✅ Toilet paper roll inserts (empty)
✅ Wrapping paper & gift wrap (no sticky tape)
Plastics (Bottles and Containers)
✅ Butter & margarine containers (labelled code 5 only)
✅ Cordial, water & soft drink bottles (labelled codes 1 & 2 only)
✅ Cream bottles
✅ Dip containers (labelled code 5 only)
✅ Ice-cream containers & Yoghurt (labelled code 5 only)
✅ Laundry detergent & cleaning bottles (labelled codes 1 & 2)
✅ Meat trays (labelled code 5 only)
✅ Milk bottles (labelled code 2 only)
✅ Shampoo bottles (labelled codes 1 & 2 only)
✅ Strawberry & berry punnets
✅ Takeaway containers (labelled code 5 only)
Steel
✅ Aerosol cans (must be empty)
✅ Food-grade steel cans & tins
✅ Fruit tins (empty & clean)
✅ Metal lids from bottles and jars
✅ Pet food tins (empty & clean)
✅ Vegetable cans (empty & clean)
Aluminium
✅ Aluminium cans & tins
✅ Aluminium foil (scrunch into a ball)
✅ Aluminium kitchen foil trays
✅ Soft drink cans
What You CAN Recycle: Recycling Resources
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