Recycling bin

Your recycling bin has a yellow lid and is emptied every second week (on the opposite week to your garden organics bin).

If you’re unsure which week your recycling bin is emptied, use our search tool to check. Or you can get a free Waste and Recycling Collection Calendar from us by:

• Completing the Waste Calender Request form, or
• Calling us on 02 4645 4000 and asking for one to be sent to you.

Below is a quick guide on what can go in our recycling bins and what cannot. To learn more about plastics and how to recycle them, check out our Frequently Asked Questions.

Hints and tips for your recycling bin

Keep it clean - rinse containers and remove all food and liquids. Containers with food or liquid in them are considered contaminated and cannot be recycled.

Keep it loose - drop your recyclables in your recycling bin loose. Please don't bag or box your recyclables first, as this prevents items from being separated and recycled.

Look for the recycling label - the Australasian Recycling Label is a proven system developed by Planet Ark, an industry that tells you which bin each piece of packaging goes in.

If in doubt - if you have items you are not sure about, please leave them out of the yellow lidded bin. Putting items in your recycling bin because you hope they can be recycled will only ruin your good recycling efforts.

What goes in your recycling bin

Items you can include:	Don't include these items:
Aluminium cans, clean aluminium foil and pie trays	Meat trays
Cardboard boxes, cereal boxes and clean pizza boxes, milk and juice cartons	Food waste
Empty plastic bottles and containers from your bathroom, kitchen or laundry only and marked with the plastic identification code	Soft plastics like plastic shopping bags, plastic packaging, food wrappers or cling film
Empty steel cans and aerosol cans	Motor oil or motor oil containers
Glass bottles and jars (remove lid)	Nappies
Paper, magazines, newspapers, telephone books and envelopes	Needles
	Plastic bottles or containers that do not have a plastic identification code
	Polystyrene (including meat trays and foam trays)
	CDs or DVDs
	Video or cassette tapes
	Gas bottles or batteries of any kind