Problem waste drop-off events

Bring them inside a tightly sealed plastic bag to stop leaks.

Batteries including car batteries. To reduce fire hazards, tape the battery terminals on both ends with regular, non-conductive tape, like duct tape, clear sticky tape or electrical tape. We can accept up to 3 car batteries per vehicle, pedestrian or cyclist.

• All types of bicycles and scooters, electric or not, in any condition. No motorbikes.
• If you can, pack separately from other items so things don’t get tangled and your bicycle or scooter is easy for our team to remove from your vehicle.

Flatten large, bulky or excess cardboard, unless you're using it to pack other items for recycling.

We accept

• Clean, great condition blankets, sheets, towels, handbags, shoes and hats.
• Working, great condition, medium-sized hard toys such as figurines, board games, blocks.

We do not accept

• Carpets, rugs, curtains, doonas, pillows, underwear, socks or accessories.
• No soft, broken or unclean toys. No oversized toys such as ride-on cars, play kitchen sets.

Only drop off items you would give to a friend.

We accept items that have a plug, a power cord or a battery. This includes:

• Household appliances: vacuum cleaners, microwaves, toasters, mixers, blenders, kettles, heaters, coffee machines, irons, pedestal fans
• Entertainment and home office equipment: televisions, laptops, computers, computer accessories such as keyboards, printers, photocopiers, fax machines, scanners, servers, projectors, stereos, gaming consoles, DVD players, DVDs, CDs, VHS tapes and video recorders
• Phones: mobiles and landlines
• Cords, chargers and headphones
• Power tools: drills, circular saws, power boards, electric lawnmowers, electric trimmers, electric leaf blowers. No gas or petrol powered items
• Vapes and e-cigarettes: make sure they're empty of any liquid
• Batteries (no car batteries).

Don’t forget to delete your data before dropping your device off. The recycling process doesn't include data wiping.

Packing tip: Bring old electronics in a cardboard box where possible

You can bring all types of household light globes (halogen, LED, incandescent) and fluorescent tubes. Please take care in handling the bulbs as we can’t accept broken bulbs or tubes.

Household gas cylinders are accepted, including nitrogen, SodaStream and LPG bottles.

Mobile and landline phones are accepted. Before recycling your phone, please remember to delete your data. It’s your responsibility to wipe the data from your devices. Before recycling, consider donating to The Reconnect Project.

We accept clean polystyrene / styrofoam including polystyrene from furniture or delivery packaging, food containers, or food grade polystyrene, provided they’re clean. Remove all tape and glue and bring smaller pieces in a box or bag.

We do not accept polystyrene peanuts, bean bag filling or foam wrap.

Items must be less than 10kg in weight and made mostly of metal. The following household items are accepted:

• Metal kitchen items: pots and pans, baking trays, knives, cutlery, colanders, steel bowls. No whitegoods.
• Metal handheld tools: hammers, screwdrivers, wrenches, nails, nuts and bolts, nail clippers
• Metal dust bins and wire coat hangers. No plastic-coated hangers.
• Reusable drinking bottles and bottle caps
• Keys and metal locks
• Jewellery made from metal only, including gold and silver. No jewellery containing pearls, gems or other non-metal items.

Including inkjet cartridges, laser cartridges, toner bottles, fuser and drum units, fax rolls, print heads, waste hoppers/containers collectors and kits.

Note that only brands participating in the Cartridges 4 Planet Ark program are accepted: Brother, Canon, Cartridge World, Epson, HP and Kyocera.

Take X-ray, MRI and CT scans/film out of envelopes. Envelopes and paper scans and envelopes can go in your blue lid recycling bin at home.