Your recycling bin is collected fortnightly. It is only for items that can be recycled.
Acceptable items:
- paper and cardboard
- juice and milk cartons
- glass bottles and jars
- plastic bottles and containers
- steel and aluminium cans.
Please remember:
- no plastic bags can be recycled
- do not bag your recycling
- rinse items and remove lids before recycling bottles and jars.
Unacceptable items:
- food or garden waste
- clothing and textiles
- electronic waste
- medical waste including syringes and needles
- other household garbage.
Remember, if in doubt, leave it out. Even better, check our B informed app for safe disposal.
Safety first: Due to the size and shape of the garbage and recycling trucks, drivers have blind spots (areas hidden from view). Please supervise children at all times when trucks are nearby.
The recycling collected from the yellow-lidded kerbside bin is going to the Western Sydney Materials Recovery Facility in Rooty Hill.
This facility uses mechanical sorting to separate recyclable materials such as glass, plastics, paper/cardboard, steel and aluminium. This is a new state-of-the-art facility that produces a quality recyclable product. The recycling industry in Australia does not have capacity to recycle all recovered products; our contractor Cleanaway trades recovered recyclables with both onshore and offshore processing facilities, that have been vetted as legitimate recycling facilities. Recyclables are not stockpiled at these facilities, nor are they mixed with general rubbish. For example, PET plastics such as food and drink packaging are transported to the Albury-Wodonga Circular Plastics Australia facility where the plastic is made into new bottles and packaging. Cleanaway has an export licence based upon tight restrictions which govern the sustainable trade of recovered recyclables.