Use the alphabetical listing below to help on how to dispose of your unwanted items.
Let us know if we can further refine this list by contacting our Waste Management team on 9840 9333 or email via waste@manningham.vic.gov.au.
How to dispose of your items
A
Aerosol cans
Adhesive strips
Aluminium cans
Aluminium foil
Aluminium tray
Animal droppings
B
Baby food pouches
Baby wipes
Bag ties
Baking paper
Baking paper (waxed coated)
Balloons
Band aids
Baskets
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition.
Bedding
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Beer Bottles
Biscuit trays (plastic)
Blister packs (for medicine/pills)
Books
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Bones (meat)
Boxes (cardboard)
Bread bags
Bread tags/ties
Bricks or rubble
Brochures
Broken glass
Bubble wrap
Building materials
C
Cable ties
Cake trays (metal)
Carbon paper
Car batteries
Car/auto parts
Carbon paper
Cardboard
Cartridges (printer-toner)
Cellophane
Ceramics
- Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
-
Cereal boxes
Cereal box (plastic inserts)
Chip packets
Chocolate wrappers
Christmas tree (artificial)
Christmas tree (real)
Cigarette butts
Cleaning product bottles (empty)
Cleaning rags
Cling wrap
Clothing
- Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Coat hangers (wire/plastic)
Coffee cans/jars
Coffee capsules/pods
Coffee cups (disposable/takeaway)
Cookware (silicone)
Computer paper
Conditioner bottles
Cosmetic jars
Cotton wool balls/buds
Crockery (broken)
Crockery (intact)
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Curtains
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Cushions
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Cutlery (plastic)
D
Deodorant aerosol (empty)
Deodorant (roll on/stick)
Detergent bottles (plastic)
Dinnerware (single use - plastic)
Disposable coffee cups
Disposable nappies
Drink cans
Dummies (silicone)
E
Egg cartons
Electrical appliances
Envelopes
Exercise equipment
Eye glasses
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
F
Fabric
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Face coverings/masks (cloth/disposable)
Fencing (wood)
Fire extinguishers
Fly spray
Food pouches
Foam meat trays
Food cans
Frozen food bags
Fruit net bags (plastic)
Fruit punnets (plastic)
Furniture
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
G
Gas bottles
Glad wrap
Gloves (disposable)
Grass clippings
Grease-proof paper
Greeting cards
H
I
Ice cream containers and lids
J
Jars (with lids)
Juice cartons
Junk mail
K
Kitty litter
L
Laminated paper
Laser light sheets
Lunch boxes
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Lead flashing
- Take to a scrap metal dealer.
Always use caution when disposing of lead flashing.
- Lead flashing should not be cut.
- Always use work gloves when touching lead flashing.
- Do not store lead flashing near food.
Light bulbs
Linen
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Lolly wrappers
Long-life cartons
M
Magazines
Margarine tubs
Matchboxes
Meat scraps
Meat trays (plastic)
Meat trays (polystyrene/foam)
Medicine bottles (empty and rinsed)
Medicines
-
Take to your local pharmacy
Menstrual cups (silicone)
Milk containers (cardboard/glass/plastic)
Mirrors (wrapped)
N
P
Paint tins (empty)
Pallets (wood/plastic)
Paper bags
Paper (shredded) small amount contained in envelope or cardboard box
Paper (shredded) large amount
Paper towel rolls (inner)
Perfume bottle
Pet food tins (rinsed)
Pharmaceuticals
-
Take to your local Pharmacy
Phone books
Picture frames
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Pizza boxes (empty)
Placemats
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Plasterboard
Plastic bags
Plastic containers
Plastic strapping
Plastic trays/baskets
Plastic wrappers
Plate glass (wrapped)
Polycarbonate roofing sheets
Pots and pans
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Potting mix bags (empty)
Pyrex ovenwear (broken)
Pyrex ovenwear (intact)
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
R
Razor (disposable)
Receipts
Reusable shopping bags
Rubber bands
S
Shoes
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition or
Sanitary products
School bags
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Seedling containers (free of soil)
Serviettes (paper)
Shampoo bottles
Silver foil
Smoke alarm
Snap lock bags
Soap pump bottles
Soft drink bottles
Soft drink cans
Spectacles
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Spirit bottles
Sporting goods
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Steel cans
Steel (other than tin and cans)
Sweet wrappers
Syringes
Contact us for advice
T
Tree prunings
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Book a bundled branches collection
Takeaway coffee cups
Take away containers
Telephone books
Textiles
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Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Tin cans
Toilet paper
Toilet paper rolls
Tools
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Toothbrushes
Toothpaste tubes
Toys
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Tupperware
V
Vacuum cleaner dust
Vegetable punnets (plastic)
Vegetable scraps
Video cassette recorders (VCR)
Vitamin bottles (plastic/glass)
W
Waxed paper
Wet wipes
Window glass (wrapped)
Wine bottles
Wrapping paper
Y
Yoghurt containers
Yoghurt pouches
Can't find what you're looking for?
Contact us or email waste@manninham.vic.gov.au
Otherwise check out Sustainability Victoria’s Know your recycling for a comprehensive list of how to dispose of items.