E-waste (+ more) collection day

Next date: Saturday, 04 May 2024 | 08:00 AM to 02:00 PM

Council’s recycling events are an easy way for Maroondah residents to recycle their e-waste for free.

Our e-waste events have grown and we are now accepting clean polystyrene, cardboard, textiles, vapes and e-cigarettes.

Council’s e-waste recycling events are an easy way for Maroondah residents to recycle their e-waste for free. See all acceptable items.

• Date: Saturday 4 May 2024
• Time: 8am to 2pm
• Where: Maroondah Council Operations Centre, 24-28 Lincoln Road, Croydon
• Bookings essential. Book one timeslot only. Each session goes for 1 hour and you can arrive any time up to 5 minutes before the end of your booked session.

Book online

At the event, follow the direction of the staff, stay in your car and a staff member will take your items straight from your car. While staff are emptying your vehicle, please put your car in park.

Acceptable items:

• Any item with a battery or cord, except for whitegoods or items that two people cannot pick up.
• Fluorescent light globes, including compact and tubes.
• Household batteries and car batteries.
• Gas bottles (up to 9kg).
• Clean packaging polystyrene (from small and large appliances e.g., polystyrene from big screen TV’s, dishwashers and oven packaging, free of any other material, such as sticky tape, soft plastics or labels).
• Cardboard - flattened.
• Clean clothing, bedlinen and shoes. Please keep shoes separate from clothing and bedlinen.
• Vapes/e-cigarettes - please keep vapes separate from other items and if leaking, place in a zip lock bag.

Please note items should be in residential quantities only.

What will we do with the items collected?

E-waste

The e-waste is collected by The Activ Group who manually disassemble the e-waste, removing ferrous and non- ferrous metals, precious metals and plastics. They also safely remove and dispose of any hazardous materials. Through the disassembly process, The Activ Group can recover up to 90 percent of recyclable materials, returning these back to the economic system and as such,  playing a vital role in the circular economy.

Gas bottles

Suitable gas bottles are returned to the original supplier. Others that are not suitable for reuse are recycled for the metal.

Polystyrene

The polystyrene is collected by a local company Foamex, located in Bayswater North. It's extremely important that the polystyrene is clean and free of any contamination. The polystyrene is recycled by Foamex into a wide variety of products. Their specialty is sustainable building materials such as insulation for thermally efficient homes. Residents can also drop off polystyrene to the Foamex Bayswater North location or one of their other two locations at any time of the year.

Please visit the Foamex website before visiting.

Textiles

Textiles will be collected by UPPAREL.

Did you know the average Australian purchases 27kgs of textiles per year and throws out 23kg? UPPAREL’s philosophy is how to turn the linear fashion economy into a circular one. 

Everything is reused, repurposed, or recycled right here in Australia. UPPAREL ensure nothing is sent offshore or to landfill. Currently, approximately 65 percent of the items they receive are in new or fit-to-wear condition. These items are hand-sorted by their dedicated team and passed on to their charity partners like Save The Children, St Kilda Mums, Youth Projects, grassroots social enterprises and many more. The remaining 35 percent is either repurposed or transformed into new materials that are not only entirely recycled, but also circular in design.

Vapes and e-cigarettes

Vapes and e-cigarettes will be sent to Envirostream under a newly developed Vape Recycling Pilot Program. Envirostream are using innovation to create new processing methods for lithium batteries, including those that power these portable devices. Their Australian-owned battery recycling facility in Victoria – which is fully enclosed and based on international best practice – was designed and built by the team at Envirostream.

When

Location

Operations Centre, 24-28 Lincoln Road, Croydon, 3136, View map