Before disposing of items, consider reducing waste by reusing them or passing them on to others. Many items can be repaired yourself or professionally, or even traded online. Reusing and repairing helps reduce waste and benefits your community.
Find out more by download residential waste and recycling information guide in your preferred language or use our A – Z Interactive Guide.
- Waste & Recycling Guide (English)
- Waste & Recycling Guide (Arabic)
- Waste & Recycling Guide (Chinese)
- Waste & Recycling Guide (Hindi)
- Waste & Recycling Guide (Karen)
- Waste & Recycling Guide (Punjabi)
- Waste & Recycling Guide (Vietnamese)
Please remember, if you cannot find an item listed, or need further information, please contact Council’s Waste Education Team on wastewise@wyndham.vic.gov.au or 1300 023 411.
A – Z Interactive Residential Waste Guide
Waste Items
Household Garbage Bin (Red Bin)
Council supplied rubbish bin with either a red lid. For more information visit Household Bin Services.
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B
Baby food packs (empty - lids on)
Bag ties
Bags / Backpacks
Baking paper
Band aids
Baskets
Bean bag fill / polystyrene (bagged)
Beauty containers (glass)
Bed Sheets (clean)
Blankets (clean)
Blu tak
Bones (Cooked or Raw)
Bottle tops (loose)
Bread Bag
Bread, Rice, Pasta & Cereals
Bubble Wrap
C
Carbon paper
Cardboard Box (Waxed)
Cartons (eg milk)
Cartons (Tetra Pak – e.g. long-life milk)
Cassette tapes
Cat Litter
CD Case
Cellophane
Ceramics (broken)
Ceramics (not broken)
Cereal pack (plastic - empty)
Chip Packet
Cigarette butts
Citrus (Orange, Lemon, Lime)
Cleaning rags
Cling Wrap
Clothing
Coat hangers (metal/plastic)
Coffee Cup (paper, plastic)
Coffee cup lid
Coffee Pods
Compostable food packaging
Corks
Cosmetics containers (glass)
Cotton wool bud
Crockery (broken)
Cutlery
D
Dairy
Dog poo
DVD cases
E
Egg Shells
Eyeglasses
F
Face masks (cut straps)
Flooring (Timber)
Foam items (small)
Removed from cardboard packaging and bagged in hard waste or rubbish bin.
Food Scraps
Food Scraps (no meat)
Fruit & Vegetable Scraps
G
Garden Hose
Glad wrap
Glass (broken - wrap in newspaper)
Glasses (drinking)
Glasses (for eyes)
Gloves (latex)
Grass Clippings
Green Waste
The following items require a tip token exchange: Carpet or underlay, Clothing, Curtains, Doona, Floor lino, Flooring (timber), Foam and Styrofoam items, Gas cylinders, Oil (all types) , Paint, Rugs, Shoes and Tyres.
Grey Plastic Bags
H
Handbags
Hats
Hessian
Hot water bottles
I
Ice cream containers (cardboard)
J
Jewellery
K
Kitty litter
Knives (well wrapped)
L
Lolly wrappers (plastic)
M
Magnets
Makeup containers (empty - glass)
Markers
Masks (disposable)
Meat scraps
Medicine packets (e.g. blister packs)
Mirrors
N
Nappies (plastic)
Nappies (reusable and clean)
Netting (put in a bag)
O
Oil droppers (separate pump from recyclable bottle)
P
Paper (shredded)
Paper Towel
Pencil
Pens
Pet food bags (empty)
Pharmaceutical packets (e.g. blister packs)
Photos (incl. lithographic film, negative film, polaroids and slides)
Picture frames
Pillow
PLA products (compostable plastic)
Placemats
Plant cuttings
Plant Material
Plant pots (ceramic)
Plant pots (plastic)
Plastic Bags
Plastic crockery
Plastic strapping
Plastic Straw
Plastic toys (not electrical)
Plastic wrappers
Plate glass
Plates (ceramic)
Plates (plastic)
Polystyrene
Removed from cardboard packaging and bagged in hard waste or rubbish bin.
Polystyrene (large items)
Removed from cardboard packaging and bagged in hard waste or rubbish bin.
Polystyrene food trays
Pool equipment
Post satchels (plastic)
PVC pipes
Pyrex
R
Receipts
Rice bags (hessian)
Rice bags (plastic)
Rubber
Rubber bands
Rubber gloves
S
Scarves
Seedling container
Serum pumps - (separate pump from recyclable bottle)
Shoes
Slurpee cup (paper and plastic)
Soft Platics
Spectacles
Sponges
Sporting equipment
Sticks
Straws (paper/bamboo/wheat)
Straws (plastic)
String
Styrofoam (small)
Sweet wrappers (plastic)
T
Tea Bags
Ties
Timber
Tissues
Tools
Toothbrush
Toothpaste Tubes
Can be disposed of in your household bin or at Terracycle. Terracycle is able to recycle many different items (fees apply).
For more information see https://www.terracycle.com/en-AU/.
Towels
Toys (hard)
Toys (soft)
Tree prunings
Twine
V
Vacuum cleaner dust
Vegetable & Fruit Scraps
Videos Cassettes
Vinyl
W
Waxed paper
Weeds
Wet Wipes
Wood and Timber
Wooden spoons
Wrappers (plastic)
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