Your Recycling Service

The City of Canada Bay Council provides a recycling collection service for residential premises including houses, townhouses, villas and units, as well as commercial premises. 

Domestic Premises Houses, townhouses and villas receive one yellow-lidded 240 litre wheelie bin per property.  Units share recycling bins, with one yellow-lidded 240 litre wheelie bin allocated for every two units. Recycling is collected weekly from units, and fortnightly from all other domestic premises. Please refer to the “When is my bin emptied?” section to find out the day of your collection.  Additional recycling bins are available upon application to Council. Please call the Waste Hotline on 1300 551 659.   Non Rateable Premises The allocation of recycling bins for non rateable premises is determined by application to Council. Recycling bins for non rateable premises are 240 litre wheelie bins with yellow lids which are collected fortnightly. Please refer to the “When is my bin emptied?” section to find out the day of your collection. For more information about Waste Services for non rateable premises please call the Waste Hotline on 1300 551 659.

Commercial Premises

The allocation of recycling bins for commercial premises is determined by application to Council. Recycling bins for commercial premises are 240 litre wheelie bins with yellow lids collected fortnightly. Please refer to the “When is my bin emptied?” section to find out the day of your collection. For more information about Waste Services for Commercial Premises please call the Waste Hotline on 1300 551 659.  

The yellow-lidded bin is for your recycling including paper and cardboard, steel and aluminium cans, milk and juice cartons, glass bottles and jars, and most plastic bottles and containers. As your recycling is sorted after collection, all your recyclables can be placed into the one bin.

For more detail about what can and cannot be placed in the yellow-lidded recycling bin have a look at the sticker on the lid of your bin, read the table below, or call the Waste Hotline on 1300 551 659.

Recycling signs and posters for bin bays and bin rooms in unit compexes are now available. Please have a representative of your Body Corporate or Owners Corporation call the Waste Hotline on 1300 551 659 for more information.

It is important to make sure that only recyclable items are placed in the yellow-lidded recycling bin. Placing incorrect items in the recycling bin is called ‘contamination’. Contamination causes problems during the sorting of recyclables, as well as affecting the ability of the item to be processed into a new product. In some cases, just a few contaminated bins can ruin an entire truckload of recyclables. Just a few people doing the wrong thing can lead to such a waste!

Plastic bags are the most common contaminant found in recycling. Remember plastic bags cannot be placed in the recycling bin - they should be reused, returned to a supermarket with a special plastic bag recycling station, or disposed of in your garbage bin.

It is also important that you remove the lids from jars and plastic bottles and give containers and bottles a quick rinse out before placing them in the recycling bin. 

The following guidelines will help you to understand what can and cannot be recycled in the City of Canada Bay:

Paper and Cardboard	Can Be Recycled Most paper and cardboard items including newspaper, magazines, envelopes, scrap paper, junk mail, pizza boxes and other cardboard packaging Cannot Be Recycled Waxed cardboard boxes e.g. some fruit boxes   Remember FLATTEN cardboard boxes
Plastic Containers	Can Be Recycled Plastic containers and bottles marked with: including soft drink and water bottles, milk bottles, shampoo bottles, detergent bottles, cordial bottles, yoghurt containers, ice cream containers, take-away food containers, margarine containers Cannot Be Recycled Other plastic packaging items such as plastic bags, plastic wrapping and film, envelope and tissue box windows, plastic plant pots, plastic furniture, toys and polystyrene foam   Remember RINSE bottles and containers REMOVE lids and place these in the garbage bin. REMEMBER no plastic bags.
Aluminium and Steel Cans including Aerosols	Can Be Recycled Aluminium and steel cans including drink cans, food cans, aerosol cans and pet food cans Cannot Be Recycled Other aluminium and steel products such as cutlery, saucepans, car parts, metal coat hangers, wire and gas bottles   Remember RINSE food and drink cans REMOVE the lid from aerosols and place it in the garbage bin
Milk and Juice Cartons	Can Be Recycled Gable top milk and juice cartons   Remember RINSE cartons
Glass	Can Be Recycled Glass jars and bottles which are green, brown or clear Cannot Be Recycled All other glass products such as crockery, pyrex, drink and wine glasses, coffee cups, ceramics, pottery, tiles, window glass, windscreens, light bulbs, reading glasses and all broken glass   Remember RINSE bottles REMOVE lids and corks and place them in the garbage bin

How Are Recyclables Collected?

Some recycling trucks use a robotic arm to grip and lift the bin so the contents can be tipped into the top of the truck. Other trucks load the contents of the bins from the rear. Trucks can fit approximately 300 - 400 bins of recycling in each load.

When the truck is full, the recyclables are taken to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF - pronounced "murf"). The back compartment of the truck tips up and the rear door opens to empty the recyclables onto the floor of the MRF. At the MRF the recyclable materials are placed on conveyor belts to be sorted, separated and baled. Recyclables are then transported to manufacturers for recycling.

Closing the Loop with Recycling

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