Your Recycling & Waste Services Guide 1 Reducing waste to landfill – Avoid creating rubbish 2 Reducing waste to landfill – Reduce food waste 3 Your kerbside bin services 4 Recycling service 7 Garbage service 9 Transfer Centre and Detox your Home 8 Hard waste and bundled branches booking service 10 Other responsible disposal options 6 Green waste service 5 Recycling plastics Recycling Green waste Garbage Hard waste and bundled branches
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Your Recycling & Waste Services Guide · Remember, everything that you place in your garbage bin goes to landfill. Minimise your waste by recycling or composting everything you can.
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This code tells you what type of plastic it is and this section of the guide will explain which plastics can go into your kerbside bin for recycling and which can’t.
Beverage, sauce, take-away and fresh produce containers (e.g. strawberries) and their lids
Milk, juice, ice-cream and shampoo containers
Window cleaner, detergent and cordial bottles
Plastics that are recyclable but are not accepted through the council kerbside recycling bins include:
7Expandedpolystyrenee.g.cups,traysandpackaging
7Sheetplastice.g.plasticshoppingbags
see section 10astowhereyoucandisposeofthesetypesofplasticsorvisitwww.visy.com.auformoreinformationonplastics
Itsoktoleave
thelidsonplastics
Your fortnightly green waste service
6 Greenwasteservice
7nologs
7nofoodwaste
7noplantpots
7nodirt
7norubbleorsoil
7nonappies
7norecyclables
7nogarbage
7noplasticbags
Flowersgrass clippings
small branches (up to 75mm diameter and 750mm long)
garden pruningsweeds
The green waste collection is an optional user pays service. Contact Customer Service on 9599 4444 to order your bin – a one-off fee applies.
HAndy HinT You can place vegetable and fruit peelings into your Green waste bin.
Your weekly garbage service
7 Garbageservice
7nologs
7 no hazardous
chemicals
7noorganics
7norecyclables7nopaint
7nodirt
7norubbleorsoil
Meat and bones
Polystyrene
Broken glass
nappies
Remember, everything that you place
in your garbage bin goes to landfill.
Minimise your waste by recycling or
composting everything you can.
Flowers
garden prunings
unlike your recycling bin,
you can bag your rubbish to reduce
spillage and to help keep your
bin clean.
scrunchable plastics
Pyrex and ceramics
Hard waste and bundled branches booking service
8 Hardwasteandbundledbranchesbookingservice
Meat and bones
scrunchable plastics
Each property in Bayside is entitled to two collections every 12 months. The collections can include the following materials:
The items above can be combined for each collection but cannot exceed four cubic metres (2m x 2m x 1m) and items must be able to be lifted by two people.
your hard waste booking checklist1. Checkthatyourmaterialsareeligibleforcollection,aslistedabove
items that will be collected items that won’t be collected
• General hard waste (incl. scrap metal items)
• Mattress and mattress bases (either 2 mattresses or 1 mattress and base)
• Electronic waste (incl. Televisions and Computers)
• Bundled branches (Christmas Pine trees included but only in January)
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2 metres wide
2 metres deepdid you know: Separatingyourwasteenablesmaterialstobe
disposedofresponsibly.
Please note:residents will receive a notice in their letterbox if the materials were not booked, non compliant or not placed out in time. Items will be cleared within four working days but could be cleared within 24 hours so items must be out in time.
Council recommends the following options for responsible
disposal of the following unwanted household items:
AsbestosIfyouhaveasbestosonyourproperty,EPArecommendsyouconsultaprofessionalremovalist(asbestosremovalistscanbelocatedintheYellowPages).YoushouldensurethattheyhaveaWorkCoverlicence.For more information contact the ePA on 03 9695 2722.
Batteries, light globes, mobile phones, CDs, DVDs and VCRsDomesticquantitiesoftheabovehouseholditemscanberecycledthroughCouncil’srecyclingstationsattheCorporateCentreandBeaumarisLibrary.
Chemicals and hazardous itemsHazardousandchemicalwastecannotbeplacedinCouncilbins,hardwastecollectionsordownthesink.