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YOUR GUIDE TO WASTE AND RECYCLING
RECYCLING SERVICE (Yellow lid)
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Recycling bins are serviced fortnightly.
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Empty glass bottles and jars (all colours)
Magazines and newspapers
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Household plastic containers (from the kitchen, bathroom and laundry)
Milk cartons, juice cartons and tetra-paks
Aluminium and steel cans and aerosols
NO! Building waste
Chemicals, acids or batteries
Garden waste te
Plastic bags
Styrofoam or polystyrene
Syringes or needles
Cardboard (including egg cartons, cereal boxes and cclean pizza boxes)
Paper, envelopes and junk mail
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Ceramics, china, or drinking glasses
Clothing
Flexible plastics (lolly wrappers, cling film and chip packets)
Fluids or liquids
Tyres or oils
Nappies
Plate glass or light globes
Window or mirror glass
Food scraps
Keep your recycling separate from waste in the home with a tub or box that you can carry to your recycling bin. There’s no need for bin liners!
Scrap metal
Wood
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RECYCLING SERVICE (Yellow lid)
GARDEN WASTE SERVICE (Lime lid)
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Garden waste bins are serviced fortnightly.
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Grass clippin clippings, weeds and d leaves l
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Small branches
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Treated timber
frond (cut to Palm fronds fit insid inside the bin)
Garden care Mulch is a great way to keep your garden looking good all year round. It keeps moisture in and prevents weeds. It's a great re-use of material!
General household rubbish
Bricks, rocks or rubble
Garden prunings pru pruning runing ngs
Using a garden waste bin reduces the organic quantity going to landfill. Keeping the NO! items out of the bin will result in a better quality mulch for Sunshine Coast gardens. Cut all materials to a size that fits in the bin and the lid will close.
Logs, stumps or tree limbs larger than the size of the bin
Plastic bagss
Dirt, soil, sand d or potting ttti mix i
Recyclables
Fallen fruit or food scraps
Garden accessories (e.g. plant pots, gnomes or hoses)
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GARDEN WASTE SERVICE (Lime lid)
WASTE SERVICE (Red lid)
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Waste bins are serviced weekly.
YES! Household waste
Flexible plastics (lolly wrappers, cling film and chip packets)
Food scraps (meat, bones, fish and poultry)
NO! Syringes or medical waste
Chemicals or hazardous waste
Nappies, tissues and paper towel
Broken mirrors, pyrex, drinkware and crockery
HINT! Everything that goes into your red bin is destined for landfill. Every piece of waste avoided, reused or recycled makes a difference.
Motor oil, pesticides, paints or solvents
Fluids or liquids
Avoid Council is progressively changing any green lids to red which will then meet the Australian standard. Reduce general waste by: • Avoiding food waste • Placing recyclables in the right bin • Composting or worm farming at home
Reduce Reuse Recycle Landfill 7
WASTE SERVICE (Red lid)
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BIN DAY REMINDERS Waste bins are serviced weekly. Recycling bins (yellow lid) and garden waste bins (lime lid) are serviced fortnightly on alternate weeks. Check your waste collection calendar, or search your address on Council’s website www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au, for your bin days.
Recycling week
Garden waste week
Place your bins at the kerbside by 6am on your collection day. Return bins inside your property by 6pm.
Your bin will not be emptied if it is overflowing, too full or contaminated. Make sure the lid can close. If it is too heavy to wheel to the kerbside, it’s probably too heavy for the truck arm to lift.
Correct bin placement – Place your bins out with the wheels facing away from the road. – Leave 500mm between bins and other objects so the bin can be emptied easily. – Please speak to Council's Customer Service for advice if you are unsure where to place your bins. Our fleet of waste vehicles is fitted with GPS tracking and cameras. This technology is used to monitor bin servicing, driver behaviour, and any incidents that occur during collection. Council uses this information to provide safe, reliable and efficient waste collection services for the Sunshine Coast.
Leave space between bins and other objects (parked cars, trees, light poles, letter boxes, etc.)
CORRECT BIN PLACEMENT
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RESOURCE RECOVERY CENTRES Council operates resource recovery centres, recycle markets, transfer stations and landfills across the Sunshine Coast. Location
Address
resource recovery centre
Beerwah
121 Roberts Road
Buderim
Syd Lingard Drive
recycle market
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Caloundra 171 Pierce Avenue Kenilworth Brooloo Road Mapleton
Delicia Road
Nambour
Cooney Road
Witta
Cnr Cooke and Witta Roads
Yandina
Browns Creek Road
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transfer station
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One service at these sites is to recover, collect and sell reusable and recyclable items to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfill. Charges apply to dispose of some material at resource recovery centres and transfer stations. For a full list of accepted materials, charges and opening hours for each facility, visit Council’s website at www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au
HINT! Sort your load to save time, money and the environment. When you arrive at a resource recovery centre, you drive through a sorting area where items that can be recycled, resold, repaired or restored may be separated from your load. It’s free to drop off this material.
Recyclable and resalable items are accepted free
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Metal objects such as roofing iron, car exhausts and some white goods
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Clothing and clean rags (charity bin)
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Engine oil (domestic quantities)
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Paint and hazardous chemicals (domestic quantities)
FREE
All items that are accepted in the yellow lidded recycling bin
FREE
Items that can be sold via recycle markets such as furniture, toys and building materials
Do you have old TVs or computer equipment that you no longer need? Take them to one of our resource recovery centres or transfer stations for free recycling. Visit www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au for a full list of what is accepted and what is not. Make sure you remove all personal data from your computer before you drop it off. In its first year, our electronic waste recycling program saved over 1001 tonnes of e-waste from ending up in landfill. * All information and advice provided in this guide is correct at the time of publication (June 2014)
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RESOURCE RECOVERY CENTRES
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DOING THE RIGHT THING Doing the right thing – keeping the Sunshine Coast clean The Sunshine Coast is a beautiful place to live. It’s easy to keep it clean by: • Using the litter bins provided in our public places for general litter only • Making sure your bin lid is closed when it's placed out on service day • Carrying a bag in your car for waste • Picking up after your dog – bag and bin your dog waste • Taking bulk waste to a resource recovery centre or transfer station • Report damaged and overflowing bins to Council's Customer Service
HINT! You can be issued with a penalty notice for throwing rubbish from your car, dropping cigarette butts in the sand, dumping rubbish on a roadside and other 'littering' or 'dumping' activity. Dispose of it correctly and help keep the Sunshine Coast clean. If you see others littering or dumping rubbish illegally, you can make a report to Council's Customer Service. Council also uses cameras in its surveillance of illegal dumping activities.
Other recycling opportunities Large household items For large household items that can be reused, please contact your local charity group or take them to the Council’s resource recovery facility. The Yellow Pages contains a listing for waste removal services which are available from your home.
Small batteries Battery World and Aldi provide a free recycling service for small batteries.
Printer cartridges, phones Planet Ark has information relating to recycling of cartridges, phones and other items on their Recycling Near You page – www.recyclingnearyou.com.au
drumMuster Council has collection areas at some of the rural resource recovery rentres as part of the national programme for collection and recycling of cleaned eligible non-returnable chemical containers. www.drummuster.com.au Check out our A to Z Guide on the next page if you aren't sure what to do with a recyclable or waste product. 13
STREET, PARK AND HOME
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Compost Garden waste bin Recycle market Op shop or charity recyclingnearyou.com.au Recycling bin Call Council Resource recovery centre Waste bin
Aerosol cans Aluminium Aluminium baking trays Aluminium cans Aluminium foil Asbestos Ash (cold) Baling twine Band aids Baskets Batteries Beer bottles Bicycles Blister packs Books Bottle tops Bottles Boxes Branches
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Bricks Bubble wrap Building materials Cake boxes Cake trays (plastic/foil) Cake trays (foam) Cans Car batteries Car/auto parts Carbon paper Cardboard/paper Carpet/underlay Cartridges (printer/ toner) Cassette tapes CDs and CD covers Cellophane Cement Cereal box inserts Cereal boxes CFL globes Chemicals (domestic) Chewing gum Chicken bones China/ceramics/ crockery (broken) China/ceramics/ crockery (intact) Chip packets Christmas tree (plastic) Christmas tree (real) Cigarette butts/lighters Cigarette packets Cling wrap Clothing Cloth nappies (clean)
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Cloths/sponges Coat hangers Coffee cans/jars Coffee grounds Computer paper Computers/parts Concrete Copper Corks Cosmetic jars (plastic/ metal) Cosmetic jars (ceramic) Cotton reels Cotton wool buds/balls Crockery (broken) Crockery (intact) Curtains Cut flowers Cutlery Detergent bottles Disposable nappies Dog poo Doors Drink bottles/cans Drink straws Drums (empty) Dummies/pacifiers DVDs Egg cartons Electrical appliances
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Elastic Engine oil/containers Envelopes Fabric Fallen fruit Floppy discs Flowers Fluorescent tubes/ globes Foam boxes/trays Foam underlay Foil Foil lined cartons Food waste Fridges Fruit/vegetable scraps Furniture Garden accessories Garden waste Garden hose Gas bottles Glad wrap Glass bottles/jars Glasses (spectacles) Glassware Golf balls Grass clippings Greeting cards Hazardous waste Highlighters/textas Hose Hot water bottles Hot water units Household chemicals Hypodermic needles Ice-cream containers
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Office paper Oil (car/motor) Oil (cooking) Onion bags Ovens Paint Paint tins (empty) Paper/cardboard Paper towel Paper towel roll Pens/pencils/textas Pet food tins Petrol Pharmaceuticals/pills Phonebooks Photographs Picture frames Pizza boxes (empty) Plant cuttings/prunings Plant pots (plastic) Plant pots (ceramic) Plasterboard Plastic bags Plastic bottles Plastic containers Plastic wrap Plastic plates and cups Plastic strapping Plastic toys Plastic trays/baskets Plastic wrappers Plate glass Polystyrene Pool chemicals Potting mix bags Power cables
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Printer cartridges Prunings Pyrex/ovenware (broken) Pyrex/ovenware (intact) Rose prunings Rubber Sandpaper Sanitary items Sawdust School bags Scrap metal Screws/nails Seedling containers Shampoo bottles Shoes Silver foil Smoke alarms Snack food tubs Soft drink bottles/cans Spectacles Sporting goods Steel Steel cans/tins Sticks Stoves Strawberry punnets Straws Styrofoam Syringes
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Tablet/pill boxes Tablets/pills Takeaway boxes (foam) Takeaway boxes (plastic/foil/cardboard) Tea bags/tea leaves Televisions Tennis balls/racquets C Tetra packs Textas Textiles Tiles Timber Tin cans Tissues Toilet paper rolls Toner cartridges Tools Toothbrushes Toothpaste tubes Toys Tree prunings Twine Tyres Vacuum dust Vegetable scraps Video tapes Waxed cardboard/paper Weeds Whitegoods Windows Wool Wrapping paper X-rays Yoghurt containers
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