Your Recycling Service

City of Gosnells Recycling

The City of Gosnells provides a fortnightly recycling collection service for domestic and multiple dwelling residences. The yellow-lidded 240Litre wheelie bin is for your recyclable domestic waste only. All recyclable items can go into the bin together. This is the most convenient and efficient service offered to residents as the recyclables do not need to be sorted by different materials before they are collected. All items must go in the bin loose and not in plastic bags. What can be recycled with your yellow-lidded wheelie bin? Many packaging items made from paper/cardboard, plastic, aluminium, steel and glass are recyclable. However, there are some items made from these materials which cannot be placed in your yellow-lidded recycle bin because there are no markets for them. Non-recyclable materials mixed in with recyclable materials can hinder the recycling process, as well as affect the quality of the recycled products. Therefore, non-recyclable packaging items must be kept OUT of the yellow-lidded recycle bin. Recyclable items must be free of "contaminants" as welll, i.e. food residues, lids, plastic wrapping, etc. These non-recyclable and contaminating items must be placed in the green general waste wheelie bin. Food scraps and green garden wastes are also contaminating to the recycling process and must also be kept OUT of the yellow-lidded recycle bin.

Material	Can Be Recycled	Cannot be Recycled
Paper/Cardboard	Most paper and cardboard items ? newspaper, magazines, envelopes, scrap paper, junk mail, pizza boxes, milk and juice cartons and other cardboard boxes and containers. REMOVE plastic wrap, paper clips, plastic windows, food residues, and other non-paper materials. Click here for Paper Recycling.	Paper/cardboard items heavily contaminated with oil and grease. Books and other bound paper documents. Toilet tissue or paper towells. Do not bundle the material. Put it in your bin loose.
Plastic Containers	All plastic bottles can go into your recycling bin, provided they are empty. -Milk & Juice bottles -Soft drink bottles -Detergent bottles -Shampoo etc -All shapes and size bottles. REMOVE food and liquid residues, lids, rings and labels. Click here for Plastics Recycling.	Plastic items that are not bottles are not recyclable!! Take away containers, margarine, ice cream and yogurt containers, pot plants, plastic toys and all varieties of plastic bags and wrapping cannot be recycled as they are not made out of the right type of plastic. These items are difficult to recycle due to their properties and shape and therefore there are no markets for them.
Aluminium & Steel	Cans and aerosols only. REMOVE food and liquid residues, and take the lid and nozzle off aerosols. Lids from tin cans can go in as well and are best placed inside the can Click here for Aluminium Recycling. Click here for Steel Recycling.	Other non-packaging aluminium & steel products such as car parts, wire, scrap metal, knives, pots and pans etc. These items do not melt at the same temperature as cans and therefore hinder the process.  Sharp items can cause damage to conveyor belts at the sorting facility and some are even a safety risk to workers.
Glass	Glass jars and bottles only. It doesn?t matter what size or colour ? if it is a jar or a bottle it can be recycled. REMOVE food and liquid residues, all lids, corks. Click here for Glass Recycling.	All other glass products such as crockery, pyrex, drink and wine glasses, coffee cups, china, bone, pottery, tiles, windows, windscreens, light bulbs, reading glasses, etc. No broken glass. These items are not made out of the right type or thickness of glass and therefore hinder the melting and reshaping process.

Ensuring your recycle bin gets emptied

• The yellow-lidded recycling bin must not contain material that cannot be recycled (refer to the above information or the sticker on your bin lid). The truck driver may place a warning sticker on the recycling bin indicating that the bin will not be collected if it contains material that cannot be recycled.
• All items placed in the recycling bin must fit loosely so that they will fall out when emptied. AVOID jamming items into your bin and DO NOT tie your recyclables up in plastic bags - leave them loose
• The bin should not be overfull. The lid on the bin should close fully. DO NOT place excess recyclable items in the bin so as to prevent the lid closure.
• Your bin must be placed out by 6:30am on the day of collection. Therefore, it is best to place it out the night before the collection day. The collection vehicles operate from 6:30am until 6pm, so your bin may be serviced anytime within this timeframe.
• Your bins must be placed correctly on the kerbside so they are the right way around. Bins which are facing the wrong way cannot be emptied by the robotic arm vehicle.

Reasons why your recycling bin may not have been emptied

• It contained Non-recyclable material
• It was too heavy. Bins must not exceed 50 kg
• Placed incorrectly - Bins placed wrong way around. Wheels and handles should face the property.
• Located near an obstruction - Make sure the bin is located clear of trees, poles, tree canopies, and parked vehicles.
• Not out in time - Bins should be placed on the footway by 6:30 am on collection day.
• Overfull and the lid not closed - This can result in spillage.

How are recyclables collected?

At the MRF the recyclable materials are sorted, separated and baled ready to be collected by manufacturers to be taken away for recycling. To learn more about these processes, please click here.

Closing The Loop with Recycling

Recycling means that a waste item is returned to a manufacturer who can use it to make either the same item again or another product from it, e.g. aluminium cans can be melted down and made into new drink cans or into aluminium frames for sliding doors. Recycling saves tipping space and prolongs the life of the natural resources used to make the original product. Many materials e.g. glass, can be recycled thousands of times over. In most cases recycling also saves energy, because it is more efficient to recycle than to make am item from raw materials. This way the resources continue to go around and around, closing the loop, instead of being wasted by being buried in the ground. For example 1 tonne of Recycled Paper or Cardboard saves:      -    Approximately 13 Trees      -    2.5 Barrels of oil      -    4,100 KWH of Electricity      -    4 Cubic Metres of Landfill Space      -    31,780 Litres of Water

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