What goes in each bin?

Getting the right thing in the right bin is critical to keeping our waste stream clean. Items in the yellow recycling bin that can't be recycled can mean a whole collection is contaminated. Putting something in the red landfill bin that could go into the recycling bin is creating landfill unnecessarily.

Let's get the right thing, in the right bin!

Red landfill bin

Your red landfill bin is collected weekly and is for general waste products and kitchen scraps. All waste in this bin goes to landfill.

General waste includes:

  • Food waste (if you do not have a home compost or worm farm)
  • Plastic bags and other non-recyclable plastics
  • Foam trays including meat trays
  • Pyrex, ceramics or pottery
  • Broken toys
  • Nappies
  • Clothes and rags
  • Plastic buckets
  • Any glass except bottles and jars (including plate glass, windows, mirrors, drinking glasses)
  • Takeaway coffee cups and lids

Yellow recycling bin

Your recycling bin is collected fortnightly and is for all recyclable items such as:

  • Paper and cardboard - newspapers, magazines, milk / juice cartons, egg cartons, cardboard boxes and empty pizza boxes 
  • Plastics - rigid plastic containers from your kitchen, bathroom and laundry (lids on)
  • Steel - food cans, empty aerosol cans, jar lids, coffee tins
  • Aluminium - soft drink / beer cans, clean foil, scrunch foil into a tennis ball size
  • Glass - bottles and jars only (all colours)

Download our handy household recycling guide(PDF, 1MB)

Green garden organics bin

If you have a green garden organics bin, it is collected fortnightly.

The following items can be placed in the garden organics waste bin:

  • Lawn / grass clippings
  • Prunings and branches
  • Leaves and weeds

The weight of bin cannot exceed 75 kilograms, so be mindful of this as some green waste can be heavy.

Vape recycling

Free drop-off for vapes is now available at all of our Waste Management Facilities. Vapes are extremely hazardous if they enter any bin due to the lithium batteries and the risk of fire, so if you have vapes, or find any, please drop them to one of our facilities for recycling. Find your nearest Waste Management Facility.

Unsure how to recycle other household items?

RecycleMate has a comprehensive listing of how to dispose of all types of waste. Using the website or the app, type the name of any item and RecycleMate will tell you how you can dispose of the item in the MidCoast. Visit the RecycleMate website to start searching.

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