Bin Info

Your Yellow Bin is Collected Fortnightly ✅ Acceptable items in your yellow bin: ✅ Aluminium foil (please scrunch it into a ball so our machines can pick it up) ✅ Aluminium cans (no need to crush) ✅ Paper and cardboard (any colour is accepted). Please bundle small pieces of paper like receipts into a paper bag or cereal box to assist with sorting. ✅ Milk and juice cartons such as tetra packs or poppers. Note: These packs with plastic lids and nozzles are accepted. (Straws to the red bin please) ✅ Glass bottles and jars such as beer and wine bottles, jam and vegemite jars ✅ Steel food cans, tins and lids such as baked beans and pet food. ✅ Empty aerosol cans ✅ Plastic containers  – we call it rigid plastic, but just check to see if it’s got a recycle symbol and a number 1 to 7. This includes many take away containers, drink bottles and milk containers.  Note: please ensure containers are empty before placing in your yellow bin.    ❌ Do NOT place these items in your yellow bin: ❌ Plastic bags or wrappers such as cling wrap, bread bags, chips and biscuit packets. (Some plastic bags are stamped with a recycle symbol 1-5. However, no plastic bags are acceptable in your yellow bin) ❌ Meat trays, unless they have the recycle symbol and number 1-7 on them ❌ Styrofoam or polystyrene foam including foam cups ❌ Non-recyclable plastics such as clothes baskets, buckets and hoses ❌ Nappies of any type ❌ Fabrics such as clothing and ropes ❌ Crockery and ceramics including plates, mugs and pot plants ❌ Biodegradable or decomposable plastic bags ❌ Treated glass including pyrex, drinking glasses, reading glasses, flourescent light tubes, window glass and windscreens ❌ Fencing wire ❌ E waste including mobile phones, tablets, laptops, small appliances. ❌ Toys ❌ Waxy cardboard which includes empty fruit boxes ❌ Garden hoses ❌ Batteries of any type   Community Recycling Centres Some items don’t belong in any of your bins. The following can be dropped off at your local Community Recycling Centre for FREE: ✅ Gas bottles ✅ Fire Extinguishers ✅ Smoke alarms ✅ Full aerosol cans ✅ Motor and cooking oil ✅ Light globes ✅ Paint ✅ Batteries – household, car and boat ✅ Electronic waste CRCs are located at Coffs Harbour (Englands Road), Raleigh (Short Cut Road) and Nambucca Heads (Old Coast Road) waste facilities.  

Your Red Bin is Collected Fortnightly As a general rule, most of the waste that can’t go in your yellow or green bin will go in your red bin. There are some exceptions however including builders waste, hazardous materials, chemicals, car tyres and a few other items as listed below. Materials placed in the red bin are ultimately destined for landfill. With landfill space rapidly diminishing on a local and world wide scale, it is everybody’s responsibility to reduce, reuse and recycle as much waste as possible. ✅ Acceptable items in your red bin: ✅ Plastic bags including compostable or biodegradable bags ✅ Soft scrunchy plastics, including bread bags, cereal box liners, biscuit packets, cling wrap, bubble wrap, newspaper wrap, chocolate and muesli bar wrappers, silver-lined chip and cracker packets ✅ Other non-recyclable plastics that are not numbered from 1-7 ✅ Foam trays and polystyrene, including meat trays ✅ Pyrex, ceramics or pottery including mugs, plates and plant pots. ✅ Broken drinking glasses ✅ Broken toys ✅ Pool and garden hoses ✅ DVD’s, CD’s, videos, cassettes ✅ Nappies (including biodegradable or compostable nappies) ✅ Clothes, rags and shoes – acceptable but always try to donate or give away items in good condition ✅ Waxy cardboard such as empty fruit boxes ✅ Pyrex glass including baking trays and drinking glasses. ❌ Do NOT place these items in your red bin: ❌ Recyclable items ❌ Green Waste ❌ Builders Waste ❌ Hazardous Materials ❌ Medical Waste ❌ Car Parts & tyres ❌ Printer and Toner Cartridges ❌ Paints ❌ Gas Bottles* ❌ Fire Extinguishers* ❌ Smoke Alarms* ❌ Chemicals* ❌ Paint*  ❌ Motor and Cooking Oils* ❌ Mobile Phones and Electronic Waste ❌ Batteries including car & phone batteries* *take these items to your local Community Recycling Centre (CRC) for FREE.   Overweight or Overfull Bins Our trucks can only lift a maximum of 80kg in wheelie bins. Please avoid placing excessive quantities of heavy materials in your bin, as overweight bins cannot be emptied. Overfull bins can result in spillage and difficulty of collection. Your bin lid must be fully closed with all contents contained inside the bin. We are unable to empty overfull bins.  

Your Green Bin is Collected Weekly Please place only organic waste in your green bin. This includes: ✅ Food Scraps ✅ All fruit and vegetable scraps ✅ Bones ✅ Seafood ✅ Shells ✅ Coffee grinds ✅ Eggshells ✅ Bread ✅ Pasta ✅ Cereal ✅ Dairy products ✅ Garden waste ✅ Grass clippings ✅ Small branches ✅ Sticks ✅ Leaves ✅ Weeds ✅ Flowers ✅ Plus: Small UNTREATED and UNPAINTED timber off-cuts   ❌ DO NOT put these items in your green bin: ❌ Plastic bags including compostable or biodegradable ❌ Tea bags ❌ Papers ❌ Soil and rocks ❌ Large or thick branches, stumps, logs (as a general guide, anything thicker than your arm does not belong in your green bin) ❌ Treated or painted timber (some treatments are toxic e.g. treated pine) ❌ Timber furniture or toys ❌ Plastic of any kind ❌ Nappies of any type (including biodegradable or compostable nappies) ❌ Plant pots- plastic or ceramic ❌ Soiled paper and cardboard   Green Bin Tips * Place garden clippings in your green bin before anything else. This will line the bottom of the bin and prevent lawn clippings and food waste from getting stuck. * Wrap your food scraps in newspaper to reduce mess and odours. * Freeze seafood and meat scraps until collection day to reduce odours. * You can sprinkle some bicarb soda in the bottom of your green bin after it has been emptied, this will help absorb odours. Overweight or Overfull Bins Our trucks can only lift a maximum of 80kg in wheelie bins. Please avoid placing excessive quantities of heavy materials (e.g. wet lawn clippings) in your bin, as overweight bins cannot be emptied. Overfull bins can result in spillage and difficulty of collection. Your bin lid must be fully closed with all contents contained inside the bin. We are unable to empty overfull bins.