Before looking to dispose of items, please think how you could reduce the amount of waste you are creating or could you (or a friend, neighbour or family members) reuse items instead of throwing them away? Many items can be repaired either by yourself or a professional, or traded on websites.
For information about our recycling and waste services please view our residential waste and recycling guide.
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.
Waste Items
Household Garbage 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)
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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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