Waste Booklet Orange City Council

GUIDE 2024

Residential waste services

Contents

Rethink, reduce, reuse, recycle: it’s everyone’s responsibility

Rethink, reduce, reuse, recycle: it’s everyone’s responsibility3

Orange City Council’s waste services are now more efficient in helping to save valuable resources from landfill.

The introduction of the food and garden waste bin has helped to divert this type of waste from landfill and reduce the production of greenhouse gas as

well as saving valuable landfill space. This provides the community with a sustainable waste management system.

We can all work on making better decisions about where our waste ends up.

The below represents an average red lid bin across Orange based on 2023 waste audits

18% of all materials in the average Orange red lid bin is food and garden waste, suitable for composting via the green lid bin.

20% of materials in the red lid bin are recyclable, and should be placed in the yellow lid recycling bin.

With your help, Council is committed to saving resources and minimising landfill. Learn how you can reduce your waste and make the most of your 3-bin system. Visit the Council website for more information.

About waste collection

• The garbage bin with the red lid will be collected WEEKLY.

• The food and garden waste bin with the green lid will be collected WEEKLY on the same day of the week as your garbage bin.

• The recycling bin with the yellow lid will be collected FORTNIGHTLY on the same day of the week.

• If your collection day falls on a public holiday, it will be collected on that day as usual.

• B ins must be placed at the kerb the evening prior to your collection day.

• B ins must not weigh more than 75 kilograms, as they cannot be lifted and the extra weight will damage the bin.

• All bins must be approximately half a metre apart from each other and clear of cars, trees and other obstacles.

• B in lids must close completely and nothing should protrude out of the top of the bin.

• Face bin openings to the road and place bins no further than half a metre from the kerb or road’s edge.

• B ins need to be removed from the kerb as soon as possible after emptying.

Garbage (landfill)

All residents have a weekly garbage collection service. The requirements regarding what can and can’t be put into the garbage bin applies to all residents and is listed below. When you ‘rethink’ the waste you make and divert as much as possible by recycling and using your food and garden waste bin, you are saving

valuable resources from being lost forever to landfill. You also save landfill space and greenhouse gas production.

If your bin is damaged please contact the Waste Hotline 1300 725 415.

Yes• Pet droppings

• G arbage

• N appies and wipes

• B roken ceramics, crockery, glass and light globes

• B roken toys

To find out which day of the week your bins get collected, as well as which week to put your recycling bin out, see the maps and calendar at the end of this booklet.

• Polystyrene and foam

• Plastic bags

• S oiled paper towel & tissues

No

• Food waste, including meat, bones and dairy products

• G arden waste, including grass clippings, leaves, weeds, small branches and prunings

• Recyclables cartons, hard plastic, steel and aluminium cans, clean paper and cardboard, glass bottles and jars

Food and garden waste

This service allows residents to divert food and garden waste away from landfill, reducing the production of greenhouse gas, as well as saving valuable landfill space.

The food and garden waste will be collected and taken to be converted into a high quality compost.

This ensures that residents have a sustainable waste management system.

• Please don’t put food and garden waste in plastic or compostable bags. Food can be wrapped in paper before being placed in the green lid bin or just placed loosely directly in the bin.

• Please do not place logs, branches or prunings larger than 15cm in diameter in your bin.

• If your bin is damaged please contact the Organics Hotline 1300 883 163.

Yes No

• All food waste, including fruit, vegetables, meat, bones, seafood and dairy products

• G arden waste, including grass clippings, leaves, weeds, small branches and prunings

• C ompostable or biodegradable bags

• Pet droppings

• G arbage or recyclables

• N appies or wipes

• H oney (this is to protect the apiary industry)

• Paper

GREEN LID BIN

Recycling

Place all the recyclables listed below in the yellow lid recycling bin. This reduces the amount of waste sent to landfill as the recycling is transported to a facility in Sydney. Here it is sorted by a combination of hand and machine processes. The sorted materials are then sent to reprocessing factories to be made into new items.

• Please DO NOT place items in plastic bags as plastic bags CANNOT be recycled in this bin.

• Wipe or rinse out containers in old washing up water before placing them in the recycling bin.

• Flatten plastic and cardboard containers to make more room in your recycling bin.

Yes No

• M ilk and juice cartons

• H ard plastic bottles and containers

• Aluminium/steel cans, empty aerosols and foil

• Clean paper and cardboard

• G lass bottles and jars

• Pizza boxes

• S oft plastics or plastic bags

• G arbage

• Food or garden waste

• Polystyrene (foam)

• Textiles (clothing and shoes)

• Crockery, glassware, or plastic household items

• Tissues, paper towel or nappies

Additional waste services

WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES

Resource Recovery Centre 261 Ophir Rd, Orange; 5km north east of the CBD

Open: Seven days a week, 8.00am to 5.00pm (except Good Friday and Christmas Day)

Recovery Shop: 02 6393 8860; open 9.00am to 4.30pm

Weighbridge: 02 6393 8861

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Waste Hotline: 1300 725 415

Organics Hotline: 1300 883 163

Orange City Council: 02 6393 8000

BULKY WASTE COLLECTION

There is a yearly pick-up service from the footpath outside your home included in your rates. For a fee, you can have bulky waste items collected at other times of the year. Size and waste restrictions apply. Check the Orange City Council website or contact the waste hotline 1300 725 415 for more details.

BEEKEEPING EQUIPMENT

Beekeeping equipment and materials cannot be disposed of at any Orange Waste Facility.

Information on correct disposal procedures can be obtained by calling 02 6393 8861 or by downloading a factsheet at www.orange.nsw.gov.au/ waste.

Used honey containers can be disposed of in your recycling bin (yellow lid bin). Please rinse your honey containers prior to recycling.

BATTERIES

Household Batteries (Used lithium ion, AA, AAA, C, D and 9V batteries) and car batteries can be dropped off at the Resource Recovery Centre.

CHEMICAL WASTE AND PESTICIDES

For the Annual Household Hazardous Chemical Collection dates and details, call (02) 6393 8000.

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Contact Resource Recovery Centre on 6393 8861 to make a booking.

ELECTRONIC WASTE (E-WASTE)

You can recycle your electronic waste but not in your household recycling bin. Drop off any unwanted electrical waste at the Resource Recovery Centre.

FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AND GAS BOTTLES

Can be dropped off for free at the Resource Recovery Centre.

GREEN/GARDEN WASTE

Domestic loads and quantities can be delivered to the Resource Recovery Centre for free recycling into compost and woodchip.

HAZARDOUS WASTE

Smoke detectors, paint, fluorescent light tubes and globes can be dropped off at the Resource Recovery Centre for specialist recovery processes. They do not go into landfill.

INTACT HOUSEHOLD

ITEMS

Donate these to your local charity or to the Resource Recovery Centre Recovery Shop.

MEDICINE

Take to local pharmacy.

MOBILE PHONES

Visit www.phonerecycling.com.au or call 1300 730 070 to find your nearest drop off centre.

NEEDLES AND SHARPS

Need to be disposed of in specific sharp disposal containers. They CANNOT be disposed of in the garbage bin. For the nearest sharps disposal facility go to www.safesharps.org.au and type in your location.

OILS

Products including cooking oil, motor oil and heating oil can be dropped off for free at the Resource Recovery Centre.

POLYSTYRENE RECYCLING

All clean polystyrene is accepted at the Resource Recovery Centre. There is a charge per cubic metre to remove and recycle this speciality waste stream.

PRINTER CARTRIDGES

Participating regional Australia Post, Officeworks and Harvey Norman stores.

SOFT PLASTICS

A soft plastics Taskforce convened by the Federal Government is investigating options for future in-store collection of soft plastics. Updates will be provided as opportunities develop.

SCRAP METAL

Can be taken to the Resource Recovery Centre.

Fees and charges for waste services can be found at: www.orange.nsw.gov.au/waste

Collection

WHEN TO PUT YOUR BINS OUT.

Check the calendar to find out which 2024 dates are week A or B.

The maps on the following pages will tell you which day of the week is your bin day.

Remember your green and red lid bins are collected weekly.

week A

week B

2024

Week A or B?

PUT YOUR RECYCLING BINS OUT ON YOUR WEEK, THE DAY YOUR OTHER BINS ARE COLLECTED

= week A = week B

Monday - A

Monday - B

Summer Hill

Kamdell

Tuesday - A

Gardiner

Burrendong

Sale Dalton

Franklin Hill

Colvin Dalton

Maguire

Taronga

Clinton Sampson

Anson Hill

Anson Hill

Prunus

Wade Gardiner Moulder Kenna Waratah Sampson Prince Collwood National Lamrock Warrendine

Moulder

Anson Kite

Anson

Apollo Endeavour Cecil Gardiner Kenna Woodward

Byng Prince

Tuesday - B

(east)HighwayMitchell

Wednesday - A

Laing

Stirling

Karimi

Breen

Byng Margaret

Melaleuca

Acacia Lilac

Woodbine

Lombardy

Wentworth Barrett

Moulder Kenna

Chiswell

Taloumbi Mariposa

Thursday - A

(west)HighMitchell

COLLECTION DAY

Thursday - B

Friday - A

(west)HighMitchell

(west)HighMitchell

Friday - B

ORANGE CITY COUNCIL

135 - 137 Byng Street, PO Box 35, Orange NSW, 2800

P 02 6393 8000 F 02 6393 8199

E council@orange.nsw.gov.au

www.orange.nsw.gov.au