Recycling bin

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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 4645 4000 and ask for one to be sent to you.

What goes in your recycling bin

Items you can include:	Don't include these items:
Aluminium cans, clean aluminium foil and pie trays	CDs or DVDs
Cardboard boxes, cereal boxes and clean pizza boxes, milk and juice cartons	Food waste
Empty plastic bottles and containers marked with the recycling symbols 1, 2, 4 and 7	Gas cylinders
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 packaging, food wrappers or cling film
	Polystyrene (including meat trays and foam trays)
	Plastic bags
	Video or cassette tapes

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