Recyclables Collection
Your blue lid Recycling Bin is used for the collection of recyclable containers and paper items. This bin is collected fortnightly on your usual garbage day, every alternate week to your Garden Organics Bin.
A map and schedule is available for information on which week your recycling and garden organics collections fall.
Recycling Bin Guidelines
- Place items in the bin loose, not in plastic bags
- Rinse bottles, jars and cans before placing in the recycling bin (no lids)
- Save space by squashing plastic bottles and containers
- Tear and crush cardboard to save space and prevent them from becoming jammed in the bin
- Do not overfill your bin, as this can lead to spillage & litter problems
- Pyrex, white glass, mirrors, drinking glasses and ceramics cannot be recycled - please wrap in newspaper for safety and put these in your garbage bin
Your Recycling bin should not be heavier that 40kg or it may not be able to be collected.
How will you know? It will be very difficult to wheel about. The heaviest materials are glass bottles & jars and telephone books.
Items accepted
- Glass bottles & jars
- Milk & juice cartons
- Aluminium and steel cans, aerosols and foil
- Plastic bottles and containers including milk, juice, soft drink & detergent bottles, ice cream, margarine & yoghurt containers
- Newspapers, magazines, advertising material, telephone books, papers & crushed cardboard boxes
Please place items loose in the bin - not in plastic bags!
Not accepted
- NO plastic bags or recyclables in bags
- NO polystyrene
- NO crockery or pyrex
- NO plate glass, light globes, drinking glasses or mirrors
- NO food scraps
- NO garden waste
- NO forms of household rubbish
- NO medical, chemical or hazardous waste
- NO waxed or soiled cardboard
- NO plant pots
Contact Council on 1300 88 22 33 for further information on what can be recycled in Maroondah.
What happens to the recyclable materials?
Once the truck is full it unloads at the recycling sorting facility in Lilydale, where the material is sorted by a combination of machinery and by hand.
- Glass is made into new glass bottles
- Paper and cardboard is recycled back into newspapers, packaging, toilet paper, insulation and building products
- Milk and juice cartons are recycled into writing and photocopying paper
- Plastic containers are used in textiles, trays, garbage bins and plant pots
- Steel and aerosol containers are used to make new cans, train tracks and building materials
- Aluminium cans are turned into new aluminium cans
