A Aerosol cans (empty) Air conditioner units Aluminium cans, foil trays Animal droppings Asbestos 1 Ash (fire) extinguished/cold B Baby wipes / face wipes Baking paper e.g. waxed paper, muffin tins Bandaids, earbuds, wipes etc. Batteries (car) Batteries (household, aaa etc) Bicycles Biscuit or meat trays (hard plastic) Books Branches / prunings Bottles (glass and plastic) Bottle tops (small) Bottle tops (larger jar sizes) Branches/prunings (less than 10cm diameter) Bricks and rubble Building waste C Cameras Cans (aluminium) Car parts Carpet Cartridges (printer) 2 Cardboard CDs and DVDs Ceramics (broken) Ceramics (intact) Chip packets / soſt plastics 5 Chemicals (pool, garden and household) Cling wrap / plastic film 5 Clothing and textiles Coat hangers Coffee cups Coffee pods 3 Computers and computer parts Concrete Corks Cosmetic containers (glass or plastic) Cutlery (metal) Cutlery (plastic) D Dead animals Deoderant (empty) Detergents Detergent bottles (empty) Dog and cat poo Dog and cat food tins (scraped clean) Doors Drinking straws E Electronic waste (e-waste) Electrical appliances Egg cartons Envelopes (paper) Eyewear/glasses (intact) F Face wipes / baby wipes Fire extinguishers Fireplace ash (extinguished) Foam boxes Food and vegetable scraps Fuels Fridges / freezers / white goods Furniture G Gas bottles / cylinders Garden tools & equipment Glass (broken window or drinking - wrapped) Grass clippings Greeting cards H Hair (human or animal) Hot water units Hose (garden) Household chemicals Household cleaners and solvents Hypodermic needles 4 J Juice bottles and cartons Junk mail K Kitty litter (animal waste) L Laminated paper Lawn mowers Leaves Light globes (incandescent-wrapped) Light globes (compact fluorescent tubes) Lolly wrappers 5 M Magazines Manure and animal droppings (bagged) Margarine containers (scraped clean) Medicine bottles (empty and clean) Medicines Mattresses Meat trays (foam) Meat trays (hard plastics) Meat and fish bones Microwaves Milk containers (glass, plastic and cartons) Mirrors (broken and wrapped) Mobile phones N Nail polish Nappies Needles Newspapers O Office paper Oil (engine) Oil (cooking) Ovens / white goods P Paint / paint tins Pallets Paper towel and tissues Plaster board Plant pots (empty) Plastic containers (hard plastic) Plastic shopping bags 5 Plastic toys (intact) Plastic film / cling wraps 5 Pizza boxes, brown papers and cardboards Polystyrene (household) Polystyrene (bulk packaging) Pottery, porcelain (intact) Pottery, porcelain (broken) Pots and pans Poisons, pesticides and herbicides Printer cartridges 2 R Radios (electronic waste) Refrigerators / white goods S Sauce bottles Scrap metals 6 Shampoo and conditioner bottles Shoes (good condition) Smoke alarms Soil and rock Spectacles Steel cans Straws (plastic drinking) Suitcases / baggage Styrofoam / polystyrene Syringes / sharps 4 T Takeaway food containers (plastic and cardboard) Tea bags with strings and staples Telephone books Television / electronics Timber (treated) Timber (natural, under 10cm diameter) Tin cans (scraped clean) Tissues and napkins Toilet rolls (empty) Toner cartridges 2 Tools Toys (intact) Toys (broken) Tyres V Vaccums Vacuum cleaner dust Vegetable scraps W Washing machines: Waxed cardboard (shiny) Waxed / soiled paper e.g. muffin tins, baking paper Weeds (with/without seeds) White goods Window glass (broken and wrapped) Wood (treated) Y Yoghurt containers (scraped clean) A-Z GUIDE TO DISPOSING OF WASTE *Not all items are listed. Please contact Customer Service on 5434 6000 if you have questions regarding the disposal of a certain item. General Waste Bin Recycle Bin Organics/Compost Bin Donate to charity Eaglehawk Eco Centre / Transfer Stations / Drop off locations Annual Detox Your Home drop off Other disposal method KEY For further information please contact The City of Greater Bendigo Ph: 5434 6000 | E: [email protected] | 195-229 Lyttleton Terrace, Bendigo | www.bendigo.vic.gov.au 1 - Contact Asbestos Removal company 2 - Cartridge drop off locations eg. Cartridge World, Bolton’s, Planet Ark 3 - Coffee pods recycling systems eg. Nespresso, Terracycle 4 - Immunisation Services at the City of Greater Bendigo. Phone 4408 6590 5 - Return to supermarket 6 - Scrap metal company