A Z Waste Disposal Guide

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1 A Z aste Disposal Guide AVID, EDUCE, EUSE AND ECYCLE Not sure how to recycle or properly dispose of an unwanted item? Browse through the list below, and find out what options are available. If there is more than one option, the first listed is the most preferred or convenient. ecycling and euse rganics for Compost aste to Landfill

2 KEY ecycling and euse YELL LID BIN Printer Cartridges rganics for Compost GEEN LID BIN S 5 Any Australian Post, JB i-fi, Dick Smith, Tandy, the Good Guys, arvey Norman and fficeworks. aste to Landfill ED LID BIN Batteries (General) C Compost/orm Farms S 6 Any Battery orld, 460 Payneham d, Glynde, T Donate to a charitable organisation such as Diabetes SA T , Salvation Army T , St Vincent De Paul D T or Goodwill T ACS PC ecyclers accepts donated computers in working order, 54 King illiam St, Kent Town 5067, T E-Cycle ecovery, Baulderstone oad, Gepps Cross, E T EPA Contact the Environment Protection Authority S 7 S 8 Batteries (Car/Boats) Battery orld, North Terrace Tyres, epco Auto Parts, Super Cheap Auto & Peter & ick s Auto orkshop. Fluorescent tubes/globes/halogens (excluding commercial globes/quantities) Mitre 10 (ectorville, Glenunga). Delights, 37 Anzac ighway, Ashford. Ikea, 397 Sir Donald Bradman Drive, Adelaide Airport. Zero aste SA ousehold azardous aste Depot, Cnr Magazine d and enschke St, Dry Creek T ours: 9am 12pm, first Tues of the month, including public holidays. S 9 Needles/Sharps Eastern ealth Authority, 49 George St, Norwood, T provides a syringe disposal service and sells sharps containers. ard aste Kerbside Collection (Jan/Feb/Mar Annually) Tyres T Newton Transfer Station, 9 Virginia oad Newton T Metro aste, 18 Murray Street Thebarton T ingfield aste & ecycling Centre, 412 anson oad North Dry Creek T S 10 Beaurepaires & K-Mart Tyre & Auto (Coles Express). Some tyre service centres will recycle your tyres for free when you purchase new ones. ther retailers may accept tyres for recycling for a small fee. M Metal ecycling: Scrap-Away (Free Pick-up) M P ecycle via Plastic Bag ecycling Bins at Supermarkets S Special Service/Drop-off Points (see key below) S 11 X-ays You can drop off x-rays for recycling at ed Cross Centres or Siltech s Adelaide office at 1 Deeds oad, Camden Park, 9am to 4pm Monday to Friday free of charge. Standard film and negatives are not recyclable and should be placed in the waste (ED LID) bin. S 1 Pharmacy Ask your local pharmacist if they take part in the eturn Unwanted Medicines (UM) program. S 12 Polystyrene Must be clean & free of contaminants. ecycle at Coolfoam, 3/12 Kingstag Crescent, Elizabeth est, T. Gas Bottles S 2 ELGAS Swap and Go locations T or Maxbilt Trading Centre, 30 Beulah d, Nowood, T T Scouts ecycling Centre (at Payneham) T or Newton Transfer Station S 3 Mattresses Adelaide Eco Bins, call T Mobile Phones esidents can drop off mobile phone, along with its battery, charger and SIM Card (please remove private S 4 information first) in the recycling bin located inside the Burnside Library, 401 Greenhill oad, Tusmore. Any Allphones, Australia Post, Cartridge orld, Dick Smith Electronics, Fonebiz, fficeworks, TLife & 3 Shop. * here you see this star, please refer to the ecycle ight Tips on the final page of this publication.

3 A Aerosol Can (empty) F Fluorescent Tubes/Globes S 8 Aerosol Can (not empty) Foam Containers/Trays/Packaging Aluminium Foil* Food aste* C Animal Droppings* C B Batteries - General S 6 Batteries - Car S 7 Fridges* D M Furniture* D G Garden aste C Biodegradable Items* Gas Bottles S 2 T Bottles Glass & Plastic (with lids removed*) T Bottle Tops/Lids* Bread tags (square plastic)* Bricks/ubble/Building Materials T Bubble rap P C Cans-Drink/Food T Cardboard T Cartridges-Printer/Toner S 5 Glass Drink/ine Glass Broken (wrapped) Greeting Cards air ousehold Chemicals oses I Ice Cream Sticks (wooden) J Cassette & VC Tapes Jars - Glass & Plastic (with lids removed*) CDs & DVDs E Chemicals EPA Jar Lids Plastic & Metal* Juice Cartons Cigarette Butts/Ash Junk Mail (plastic wrap removed) Cleaning Sponges/Cloths/ags K Clothing* D Kitty Litter Compacted Paper/Sawdust Coffee Cups & Lids Takeaway (rinsed) Kitty Litter Stone/Clay/Crystallised Corks L Crockery Laminated Paper D Lawn Clippings Disposable Nappies Light Bulbs incandescent/old style E Lolly rappers Electrical aste* D E Envelopes (with or without windows) Egg Cartons

4 M Magazines S Scrap Metal M T Mattresses S 3 Medicines S 1 Seedling Containers (clean) Smoke Alarms* Medicine Bottles (empty & rinsed) Steel M T Milk Bottles/Cartons String / opes Mobile Phones S 4 Styrofoam N Nappies disposable Syringes S 9 T Needles hypodermic S 9 Takeaway Containers (foil / plastic clean) Newspapers Tea Bags (including tag) C Telephone Books ffice Paper Televisions E il cooking* C Timber T il motor Tins vens M T P Tissues Toilet Paper olls Paint Tins (empty) Paint Tins (not empty) Tyres S 10 V Paper Vacuum Cleaner Dust Paper (shredded)* Vinyl Paper Towel (used) Paper Towel oll ashing Machines M T Pet air axed Paper Phone Books hitegoods M T Pizza Boxes (only recycle if clean, otherwise compost) rapping Paper X Plant Pots (plastic cleaned) X-ays S 11 Plasterboard T Y Plastic Bags / rapping P Yoghurt Containers Plastic Containers (ie. icecream, margarine) Plastic Strapping Plastic Trays (can hold shape) Polystyrene* S 12 Printer / Toner Cartridges S 5 For more options visit or

5 ecycle ight Tips - Did You Know? Aluminium Foil Animal droppings Biodegradable Items Cooking oil Food aste Lids & Tags (Plastic & Metal) Paper (Shredded) Smoke Alarms oll into a ball (larger than a tennis ball) and place in your recycle (yellow lid) bin. Place pet waste loose into your organics (green lid) bin and not in plastic bags even those bags labelled biodegradable. If you have collected your pet s poo in a plastic bag, these will need to be emptied into your organics bin (green lid) and the bag placed in the waste bin (red lid). Kitty litter must be the compostable type that is made of compacted paper otherwise place in your waste (red lid) bin. Biodegradable is NT compostable. Biodegradable items may only be placed in the waste (red lid) bin. Small amounts of cooking oil can be disposed of in home garden composts. ousehold cooking oil can be stored in a sealable jar or wiped up with absorbent paper and placed in your waste (red lid) bin. Council provides a Kitchen rganics Basket and roll of liner bags to collect food scraps, napkins, tissues and paper towel for disposal into the organics (green lid) bin. emove all lids from jars, bottles and plastic containers. Plastic lids and bread tags can be collected in an empty plastic milk bottle and put in the recycling bin. If lids are too big (e.g. from margarine or ice cream containers) to be placed in the top, a slit can be created down one side to slip these through. Metal bottle tops and jar lids may be collected in a rinsed can, crushed to seal and placed into recycling (yellow lid) bin. Small amounts of shredded paper can go in the organics (green lid) bin, along with your garden and food waste therwise, you can put the shredded paper in a large paper bag, old envelope or cardboard box, so that it cannot clog the recycling machinery, and then put it into the recycling (yellow lid) bin. Ionisation type smoke alarms can be identified by the black and yellow radiation symbol which appears on the smoke alarm casing. An exemption under the Environment Protection Act 1995 permits up to two ionisation smoke alarms to be disposed of into your general waste (red lid) bin over a seven day period. ld photo-electric smoke alarms (no radiation symbol) can be discarded into your general waste (red lid) in any amount. The information contained in this publication is intended to be for general advice purposes. Information was correct at the time of publication.