How to dispose of your items

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Donate to your local charity or op shops.

For further information, call us on 9840 9333 or email our Waste Management Team.

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.

 

A to Z Waste and Recycling Guide

B

Baking paper (waxed coated)
Baskets

Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition.

icon bin red

 Put into your garbage bin (red lid)

Batteries

Drop off at your local mini recycling station

Drop off at your local recycling station.

For further information, call us on 9840 9333 or email our Waste Management Team.

Bedding

Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition

Book a hard rubbish collection

Drop off at your local transfer station (tip)

Biscuit trays (plastic)
Blister packs (for medicine/pills)
Books

Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition

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 Put in your recycle bin (yellow lid)

Bones (seafood)
Bread - crusts, stale or mouldy

C

Cakes and pastries
Cardboard - greasy, dirty or oily (small pieces)
Ceramics
Cereal box (plastic inserts)
Chicken - bones, skins and scraps
Chopsticks - uncoated wooden and bamboo
Christmas tree (artificial)
Christmas tree (real)
Cleaning product bottles (empty)
Clothing
Coat hangers (wire/plastic)
Coffee cups (disposable/takeaway)
Cookware (silicone)
Compostable liners (lime green only) with the certified AS 4736 or AS 5810 symbols
Corks (not plastic)
Cotton wool balls/buds
Crockery (intact)
Curtains
Cushions

F

Fabric
Face coverings/masks (cloth/disposable)
Fish - bones, skin and scraps
Fish and chip paper
Fruit net bags (plastic)
Fruit – peels, cores, seeds and scraps
Fruit punnets (plastic)
Furniture

L

Lunch boxes
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.
Linen

N

Nails - human and pet
Nappies (disposable)
Needles (sharps)

Contact us for advice

Newspaper (small amounts)
Nuts and seeds

P

Paper bags (small amounts)
Paper – shredded or dirty/oily (small amounts)
Paper (shredded) small amount contained in envelope or cardboard box
Paper (shredded) large amount
Paper towel rolls (inner)
Paper towel (small amounts)
Pet food tins (rinsed)
Pharmaceuticals
  • Take to your local Pharmacy

Picture frames
Placemats
Plastic trays/baskets
Plate glass (wrapped)
Pots and pans
Potting mix bags (empty)
Processed foods (such as cake, pastry, chips)
Pyrex ovenwear (broken)
Pyrex ovenwear (intact)

S

Salads and dressing
Sauces, condiments and relishes
School bags
Seedling containers (free of soil)
Serviettes (paper)
Shoes
Shredded paper (small amounts)
Skewers - wooden and bamboo
Spectacles
Sporting goods
Syringes

Contact us for advice

T

Takeaway coffee cups
Take away containers
Take away food (no containers)
Tea leaves - loose
Textiles
Tools
Toothpicks - wooden
Toys
Tree prunings

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.

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