recycling information What CAN go into your kerbside recycling bin... What CAN’T go into your kerbside recycling bin... PAPER & CARDBOARD Office paper, cardboard, letters and envelopes, junk mail, telephone books, liquid paperboard (such as milk and custard containers), newspaper, magazines, pamphlets and paper bags. Whilst many of these items can be recycled through appropriate channels, they cannot be put in your recycling bin as they can damage collection trucks and recycling equipment and can cause harm to people who sort your recycling. How to IMPROVE your recycling... Please do not place recyclables into plastic bags. All items should be empty and clean METAL Aluminium, steel and tin-plated steel cans, aluminium foil (clean), paint tins (empty) and aerosol cans. PLASTIC CONTAINERS please empty, rinse and remove caps. GLASS Bottles and jars. for more info ph 1800 330 246 or visit www.midwaste.org.au
2
Embed
recycling informationrecycling information...recycling informationrecycling information ... n Plastic bags - all types n Plastic bottle tops n n Polystyrene packaging R n Radio’s
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
✓
✗
✓
✗recycling informationrecycling information
What CAN go into your kerbside recycling bin... What CAN’T go into your kerbside recycling bin...
PAPER & CARDBOARDOffice paper, cardboard, letters and envelopes, junk mail, telephone books, liquid paperboard (such as milk and custard containers), newspaper, magazines, pamphlets and paper bags.
Whilst many of these items can be recycled through appropriate channels, they cannot be put in your recycling bin as they can damage collection trucks and recycling equipment and can cause harm to people who sort your recycling.
How to IMPROVE your recycling...Please do not place recyclables into plastic bags. All items should be empty and clean
METALAluminium, steel and tin-plated steel cans, aluminium foil (clean), paint tins (empty) and aerosol cans.
PLASTIC CONTAINERSplease empty, rinse and remove caps.
GLASSBottles and jars.
✓
✗✓
✗ ✓
✗
✓
✗✓
✗
✓
✗
✓
✗
✓
✗
✓
✗
✓
✗
✓
✗
✓
✗
✓
✗
✓
✗
✓
✗
✓
✗
for more info ph 1800 330 246 or visit www.midwaste.org.au
Waste Disposal Guide
A2Z
An Acid & Alkalisn Aerosol cans (empty)n Aluminium cansn Aluminium foiln Antibioticsn Appliances - householdn Asbestos - wrappedBn Bath tubsn Bathroom sinksn Batteries - householdn Bike framesn Bottles - glass & plasticn Boxes - cardboardn Branches - treen Bricks & paversn Building materialsCn Car batteriesn Car bodiesn Car tyres - max 5n Cardboard unwaxedn Carpet & underlayn Catridges - printern Cellophanen n Ceramics & crockeryn Chemicals - householdn Christmas trees - liven Cigarette butts
n Clothingn Coat hangersn Cooking oiln Corks - cork & plasticn Cleaners - householdn Computersn Construction wasteDn Demolition wasten Disposable nappiesn Doorsn Drums - metal emptyEn Egg cartonsn Electrical (e-waste)n Engine oil - max 20Ln Envelopes - paperFn Fencing timbern Fibro - wrappedn Fire extinguishesn Fishing lines & rodsn Flaresn Fuels - petrol & dieseln Furniture - timber &
metalGn Garden hosesn Gas bottlesn Gladwrap
n Glass jars & bottlesn Glass - broken wrappedn Grass clippingsn Guttering - metalHn Hazardous wastesn Herbicidesn Hobby chemicalsn Hot water systemsIn Insulation batts wrappedKn Kitchen cupboards,
sinksLn Lattice timbern Laundry tubs - metaln n Lawn mowersn Lead acid batteriesn Light globes - all typesn LinoleumMn Magazines - all typesn Masoniten Mattressesn n Medicinesn Metal bed framesn Metal chairsn Metal roofingn Mobile phones
Nn Newspapers - all typesOn Office furnituren Oil motor - max 20LPn Paintsn Pallets timbern Paper - cleann Paper towels soiledn Perspexn Pesticidesn Pool chemicalsn Pine treatedn Pizza boxes cleann n Pizza boxes with
foodn Plastic Containersn Plastic bags - all typesn Plastic bottle topsn n Polystyrene