Yellow Bin

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.