What to Recycle and Where Your A-Z Guide for Product Recycling or Disposal Recycling tips: Notes about the guide: When thinking about waste remember to observe the Waste Hierarchy: 1. Avoid 2. Reduce 3. Reuse 4. Recycle 5. Dispose Let s work together to make Mount Gambier a clean and green city! Recycling bin: Organics bin: Rubbish (Landfill) bin:
Aerosol cans Aluminium cans Aluminium foil Animal droppings Agricultural chemicals Agricultural chemical containers Agricultural plastics - baling twine, silage wrap Ammunition Appliances - toasters/ irons etc. in working order Appliances - toasters/ irons etc. not in working order Asbestos Ash Bags - Plastic Bags Water Softener Salt Band aids Bark Baskets - cane 3
Batteries -e.g. nickel cadmium, alkaline AA, 6V etc. Batteries - motor e.g. 12 volt, lead acid BBQ Gas Bottles Beer bottle tops Bicycles Bicycle tubes Biscuit packaging Biscuit tins Bones Books - good condition Books - poor condition Bottles - glass (NOT broken) Bottles - plastic Bottle tops - metal, plastic Boxes - cardboard Branches - big Branches - small 4
Bras Bread bags - plastic Bread bag tags - plastic Bricks Broken glass Bubble wrap Building materials - timber, bricks, tiles etc Building parts, doors, windows, floorboards etc. Business chemicals Cake trays - black plastic (NOT foam) Cans - aluminium, steel Car batteries Car bodies and parts Car tyres 5
Carbon paper Cardboard (not waxed) Cardboard (waxed) Carpet and carpet underlay Cassette tapes Catalogues - paper CDs (compact discs) CD players Cellophane Ceramics, Corning Ware etc. (good condition) Ceramics, Corning Ware etc. (broken) Cereal box inserts Cereal boxes - cardboard CFLs Chemicals - agricultural Chemicals - business 6
Chemicals - general household, cleaners, pesticides etc. Chemical containers - Agricultural Chemical containers - household Chip packets Cigarette butts & ash Cleaning rags Cling wrap Clothing / textiles - good condition Clothing / textiles - poor condition Coat hangers Coffee cups - disposable cardboard Coffee cups- disposable polystyrene Coffee grinds Coffee pods Coffee tins Compact fluorescent globes (CFLs) Computer paper Computer equipment and parts Concrete, bricks, 7
plaster and clean building materials Cooking oils - commercial quantities Cooking oils - domestic quantities Corflute Corks - natural Corks - plastic Cosmetic jars - glass and plastic Cotton reels - plastic Cotton wool buds Cups, saucers, plates - broken Cups, saucers, plates - good condition Curtains - Good condition Cutlery - metal Cutlery - plastic Crockery, ceramics, cups, plates etc. - broken Detergent bottles - plastic Dirt Disposable nappies 8
Dog poo Drums, general chemical containers Drink containers - cardboard (liquid paper board), glass, plastic Drink containers - polystyrene DVDs DVD / CD covers Earphones Electronic appliances Engine oil Envelopes Eye Glasses Farm chemicals Farm chemical containers Firearms Fire extinguishers Flavoured milk containers Floppy Discs 9
Fluorescent tubes, compact fluorescent globes Foam - boxes, meat trays, underlay, packing Foil - aluminium Food cans Food scraps Fridges / freezers Fruit and vegetable scraps Fruit juice containers Furniture - poor condition Furniture - good condition Garden hose Garden pots Garden waste - green organics, grass clippings, leaves, prunings 10
Gas bottles - BBQ, camping Gas containers - other Glad Wrap Glass - bottles, jars Glass - windows, mirrors, windscreen, broken Glasses - sight and reading Gloves - latex Gravel Greeting cards Guns Hair Hard hats Hose - garden Hot water units Household chemicals Hypodermic needles 11
Ice cream containers - plastic Ice cream container lids Inner tubes Jar lids - metal Jars - glass Juice cartons - liquid paper board Junk mail Kitchen paper rolls Kitty litter Leaves Light globes - fluorescent Light globes - incandescent (traditional globes) Linen Lolly wrappers Lunch boxes - plastic Magazines Manure - animal Margarine/butter tubs Matchboxes 12
Mattresses Meat scraps Meat trays - plastic (not foam) Meat trays - polystyrene foam Medicine bottles Medicines Metals - steel, iron, copper etc. Milk containers - plastic Milk containers - liquid paper board Mobile phones Motor oil Nappies - disposable Needles - e.g. diabetic Newspaper Office paper Oil filters Oils - motor Oils - cooking 13
Packing peanuts Paint Paint tins - empty, dried Pallets - wooden Paper towel Paper and cardboard Pencils Pens Pet food tins Pharmaceuticals Phones - landline Phone books Photographs Picture frames - wooden Pillows Piping Pizza boxes Plant pots - 14
plastic Plasterboard Plastic bags Plastic bottles Plastic chairs Plastic containers - numbers 1-5 Plastic containers - numbers 6 & 7 Plastic cutlery Plastic shopping bags Plastic strapping Polystyrene boxes Polystyrene meat trays, underlay, packing peanuts Postage stamps Pots - garden Pots - metal Printer toner and cartridges Printers Prunings PVC Piping 15
Pyrex ovenware - broken Pyrex ovenware - good condition Reading glasses Records - vinyl Re-usable shopping bags Rocks Rope Rubber products School bags Scrap metal Seedling containers Shampoo & conditioner bottles Shoes Shopping bags Shredded paper Silage wrap Silver foil Smoke detectors - domestic Soil - clean Soft drink containers - plastic, glass, aluminium Spectacles 16
Spirit/alcohol bottles Spray bottles Stamps - postage Steel cans - food cans, not paint Steel - large items Stones Stoves String Styrofoam Sweet wrappers Syringes - including diabetics syringes Takeaway food containers Tea bags Telephone books Televisions Textiles Timber, wood - treated Timber, wood - untreated 17
Tin cans Tissues Toasters Toilet paper rolls Toner cartridges Toys Tree prunings Tubes - inner e.g. bicycle TV s Twine, string, rope Tyres - car, motorcycle, truck, tractor Vacuum cleaner dust Vegetable scraps Video tapes Video / VHS players Vinyl, lino (linoleum) Vinyl records Washing machines Waxed cardboard 18
boxes Wax paper Weeds White goods Window glass Windscreen glass Wine bottles Wine bottle screw caps Wine cask liners/bladders Wire bag ties Wood Wrapping paper X-rays Yoghurt containers 19
Re-use / Recycling Facilities RECYCLING FACILITY ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS SERVICES OFFERED A.L. Bolton Optometrist Australia Post Shop Australia Post Mount Gambier East Australia Post Mount Gambier West Banner Hardware Baptist Church Cartridge World Cleanaway Computer Bits Century Yuasa Batteries City of Mount Gambier District Council of Grant Green Triangle Recyclers Green Triangle Electronics Harvey Norman K-Mart Tyre and Auto 20
Lights at 133 Limestone Coast Lighting Solutions Mount Gambier Book Exchange Mount Gambier Public Library Network Communications OPSM Red Cross Repco Sandy Ridge Landfill SE Battery Service Pty Ltd Top Spot Auto Dismantlers T (Life) Op Shops RECYCLING/REUSE FACILITY ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS SERVICES OFFERED Lifeline Warehouse (donations ONLY) St Vincent De Pauls 21
Salvation Army Stores Waste Transfer Centre RECYCLING FACILITY ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS HOURS Mount Gambier Waste Transfer Centre Useful Links: 22
Email Phone 23