waste and recycling guide URBAN
GUIDE
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Our three bin system is an easy and convenient way to sort recyclables, reduce what we send to landfill and turn our ‘waste’ into valuable resources.
recycling bin
FORTNIGHTLY
Our recycling is sorted into all the different recyclable materials, then sent to factories that make them into new items. For example, glass can be made into road base and plastics can be made into clothing!
RECYCLING
organics bin
WEEKLY
Food and garden waste is turned into compost in giant rows. The compost is then used by farmers and gardeners to nourish our soils and grow more food.
landfill bin
FORTNIGHTLY
We like to call it ‘the bin of last resort’ because anything placed inside is buried in a big hole. This means it can’t be recycled into something else.
ORGANICS
RETURN AND EARN
Return and Earn is a NSW state government initiative that allows you to return eligible drink containers to an approved reverse vending machine collection point and receive a 10 cent refund per container. The program helps reduce litter and improve recycling of valuable resources.
Collect your beverage containers until you have a decent amount then bring them to Ballina’s Return and Earn reverse vending machine located at 42 De-Havilland Crescent, Ballina.
ALL food and garden scraps including:
compostable bin liners only
A-Z Recycling Guide
Yellow Recycling Bin
Green Organics Bin
What goes in each bin?
Red Landfill Bin
Ballina Resource Recovery Centre
Community Recycling Station
Donate, sell or give (if in good condition) Red Bin as last resort
A
Aerosol cans (empty)
Aerosol cans (full)
Paint (less than 20 litres)
Aluminium cans (clean)
Aluminium foil (clean)
Appliances
B
Baking paper
Bamboo food containers and cutlery
Batteries (household)
Biocups
Biscuit and cake trays (foam)
Biscuit and cake trays (plastic)
Bones (meat and fish)
Books
Bottle tops (smaller than a credit card)
Branches (smaller than 60cm long and 10cm diameter)
Bread tags
Broken toys
Bubble wrap
Building materials (e.g. timber, tiles, tin etc.)
C
Cords and rope
Car batteries
Cardboard boxes and rolls
Cardboard egg cartons
Cardboard takeaway food containers (clean)
Cardboard takeaway food containers (oily)
Cartons milk and juice
Cassette tapes
CD covers
CD and DVD discs
Cellophane
Cereal box inserts
Chip and snack food packets
Cigarette butts
Cling wrap
Clothing
Coffee cups (including biocups)
Coffee grinds
Coffee pods
Compostable bin liners (must be certified AS 4736 or AS 5810)
Compostable food and drink packaging
Crockery and ceramics (broken)
Cutlery (steel)
Cutlery (plastic)
E
E-waste eg computers, printers, TVs
Eggshells
Electrical cables and cords
Envelopes (including windows)
F
Fire extinguishers
Flowers and dead plants
Foam underlay
Foiled lined packets
Food pouches
Food scraps (all)
Fruit and vegetable scraps (all)
Furniture
G
Garden trimmings
Garden waste (bulk)
Gas bottles
Glasses (eye/reading)
Glass jars and bottles
Glass (plates/Pyrex/mirrors)
Grains (e.g. pasta, bread, rice, noodles)
Grass clippings
H
Hair (human and pet)
Helium tanks
Hose and pipe
Household items (e.g. bikes, toys mowers, furniture, crockery etc.)
J Junk mail (paper)
K Kitty litter
L
Laminated paper
Leaves
Lids (larger than a credit card)
Lids (smaller than a credit card)
Light bulbs and tubes
Lighters
M
Magazines
Matchboxes
Community Recycling Stations accept household wastes that cannot go into your kerbside bins: household batteries, smoke detectors, mobile phones & accessories, reading glasses, printer cartridges and x-rays.
Community Recycling Station
Stations are at Alstonville Leisure and Entertainment Centre, Ballina Library, Council Customer Service Centre and Lennox Cultural Centre.
Donate, sell or give (if in good condition) Red Bin as last resort
Pill packets (all)
Pillows
Pizza boxes (clean)
Pizza boxes (dirty)
Material (e.g. sheets and towels)
Meat scraps (animal and fish)
Meat trays (foam)
Meat trays (plastic)
Medicine bottles
Mesh and netting
Microwave glass turntables
Milk and drink boxes
Mobile phones & accessories
N
Newspapers
Nappies (disposable and degradable)
O
Office paper
Oils <20 litres
P
Paper towels and serviettes
Paint (less than 20 litres)
Paint tins (dried out & up to 4 litres)
Paper (oily)
Paper
Pens and pencils
Pet poo and poo bags
Placemats
Plastic bags and soft plastic
Plastic containers and bottles (all hard plastic)
Plastic cups, plates and cutlery
Plastic plant pots
Polystyrene
Poppers (other tetra packs)
Printer cartridges
Punnets (e.g. berries)
R
Rope
Rubber bands
S
School bags
Scrap metal
Seafood
Shoes
Shredded paper
Smoke detectors
Soil (small amounts only)
Steel tins and cans
Straws (paper and plastic)
String and twine
Styrofoam
Yellow Recycling Bin
Green Organics Bin
Red Landfill Bin
Ballina Resource Recovery Centre
Community Recycling Station
Donate, sell or give (if in good condition) Red Bin as last resort
T
Takeaway foam containers and cups
Tea bags
Telephone books
Timber off-cuts
(SMALL – Not Treated, No paint and No nails or fittings)
Tissues
Tooth paste tubes
Toothbrushes
Treated Pine
Treated timber (small off - cuts)
Tyres
V
Vacuum cleaner dust
Video cassettes and covers
Vinyl
W
Wallpaper
Waxed paper and cardboard
Weeds
White Goods
Window Glass
Windscreen glass
Wine casks inners
Wipes (including flushable)
Wrapping paper (paper)
Wrapping paper (plastic)
X
X-Rays
WHAT IS ACCEPTED?
Green/garden waste
Recycling
Landfill waste
Tyres
Building waste and soil
Fridges
Scrap Metal – FREE
Electronic waste – FREE
Community Recycling Centre
items – FREE (see opposite)
Community Recycling Stations
accept common household problem wastes that cannot go into kerbside binshousehold batteries, smoke detectors, mobile phones and accessories, reading glasses, printer cartridges and x-rays. Reading glasses are
Ballina
Community Recycling Centre
Your Community Recycling Centre is a free and easy solution for the disposal of household problem waste. Many of these materials can be reused and recycled if processed correctly.
Located at: Ballina Resource Recovery Centre 167 Southern Cross Drive, Ballina Hours: 8am – 4pm every day (closed public holidays) You can drop off:
• Ballina Library
• Lennox Head Cultural Centre.
Only small amounts can be accepted. If you have more than a handful, please drop off for free at the CRC.
SalvageShedalvageShed
Ballina’s Salvage Shed is a well organised tip shop that saves tonnes of reusable items from landfill, providing sustainable options for everyday materials and reducing the environmental impact of buying new.
Please transport all materials over the resource recovery centre weighbridge where potentially salvageable items are set aside at the transfer station. The Ballina Salvage Shed do not accept direct donations.
Operated by Momentum Collective in partnership with council, the store is located next to the Resource Recovery Centre at 167 Southern Cross Drive, Ballina.
Open 9.30am – 3.30pm daily (excluding public holidays).
Contact directly on 0429 934 557
Do yourself a favour ... drop in to discover what it’s all about!
frequently asked questions
WHEN IS MY BIN COLLECTION DAY?
Find our what day your bins get emptied via the council website ballina.nsw.gov.au
WHY WEREN’T MY BINS COLLECTED?
If the truck was unable to collect your bin for any of the guidelines stated on page 13, please phone the hotline to be assessed. Collection times can vary between 5am to 3pm.
WHAT IF I NEED AN ADDITIONAL BIN?
An additional bin may be arranged at cost. Download our waste fees and charges factsheet at ballina.nsw. gov.au/resource-recovery-centre or contact us for details.
MY BIN HAS DISAPPEARED, WHAT SHOULD I DO?
Wait at least 48 hours as they have a habit of turning up. If it doesn’t reappear, contact the waste hotline to organise a replacement.
WHAT IF MY BIN NEEDS REPAIR?
Council has replacement parts, lids, wheels and axles and can be contacted for repairs.
WHEN
I MOVE
PROPERTIES,
DO I TAKE MY BINS WITH ME?
Do not take bins with you. Council supplies and maintains all waste bins and they are assigned to set addresses so these must remain on the property if moving.
IS THERE A WASTE VOUCHER SYSTEM?
No. Council operates under a user pays system as its more equitable and represent the most efficient expenditure and least cost to the wider community.
HOW DO I CONTACT THE SALVAGE SHED TIP SHOP TO SEE IF THEY HAVE A SPECIFIC ITEM?
Contact the Salvage Shed directly on 0429 934 557. Council cannot assist with Salvage Shed enquiries.
HOW DO I CONTACT THE WASTE TEAM?
Council’s resource recovery hotline is 6686 1287 or email waste@ballina.nsw. gov.au
RESOURCE RECOVERY CENTRE
167 Southern Cross Drive, Ballina
Open daily 8am – 4pm (excluding public holidays)
Email waste@ballina.nsw.gov.au
Phone 6686 1287
SALVAGE SHED TIP SHOP
167 Southern Cross Drive, Ballina (next to the Resource Recovery Centre)
Open daily 9.30am – 3.30pm (excluding public holidays)
Phone 0429 934 557
CUSTOMER SERVICE CENTRE
40 Cherry Street, Ballina
Phone 1300 864 444
