A to Z Waste and Recycling Guide

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 5 bike tyres per drop-off)

• Some bike shops 

• Asbestos Victoria

• Hard rubbish collection (small amounts such as offcuts only)

• Waste transfer stations | Yarra City Council

• Private collection service (skip bin permit required) 

• Waste transfer stations | Yarra City Council

• Private collection service (skip bin permit required) 

• Hard rubbish collection (maximum 2 doors)

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (maximum 5 X 20L containers of accepted paint products per drop-off)

• Waste transfer stations | Yarra City Council

• Private collection service (skip bin permit required) 

• Waste transfer stations | Yarra City Council

• Private collection service (skip bin permit required) 

• Hard rubbish collection

• Waste transfer stations | Yarra City Council

• Private collection service (skip bin permit required) 

• Hard rubbish collection (taped or made safe by other means)

• Asbestos Victoria 

• Detox your home drop-off event (red, non-halon fire extinguishers only)
• National Halon Bank (yellow fire extinguishers containing halon only)

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 2 gas bottles or canisters per drop-off) 

• Detox your Home drop-off events (accepted household chemicals and quantities only, registration required) 

• Return Unwanted Medicines (RUM) program
• Pharmacycle (empty blister packs only)

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (maximum 5 X 20L containers of accepted paint products per drop-off only) 

• Syringe disposal locations (and information)

This includes sheets, towels, pillowcases and doona covers.

• Donate, sell or give away
• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, must be in good condition) 
• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Donate, sell or give away
• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, wearable clothes and shoes only)
• Repair or alter
• Some clothing and shoe retailers (specialist recycling programs)
• TreadLightly (recycling option for sports shoes)
• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• OpShop.org (check items accepted before donating, items in good condition only) 

• DonateDirect

• Ebay

• Freecycle

• GIVIT

• Gumtree

• A social media group for the buying, selling, swapping and donation of goods (e.g. Facebook marketplace)

• Trading Post 

• Donate, sell or give away
• Trade-in with some retailers
• Repair
• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (maximum 20kg of computer waste per drop-off)
• National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme 

Accepted items include household batteries, printer ink cartridges, mobile phones and other small e-waste including computer mice and modems, cables, chargers, iPads, iPods, keyboards, laptops and USBs.

• Yarra library drop-off hubYarra library drop-off hub

Follow Mobilemuster instructions to remove your data.

• Donate, sell or give away
• Trade-in with some retailers
• Repair
• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (maximum 10 mobile phones per drop-off)
• Yarra library drop-off hub
• Mobilemuster

• Donate, sell or give away
• Trade-in with some retailers
• Repair
• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (maximum 20kg of TVs per drop-off)
• National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme

This includes blenders, cameras, CD and DVD players, computer mice and modems, cables, chargers, DVD and VCR recorders, kettles, iPads iPods, keyboards, laptops, stereo equipment and USBs.

• Donate, sell or give away
• Trade-in with some retailers
• Repair
• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (maximum 20kg of electrical equipment per drop-off)

• Food and garden organics (FOGO) bin (ensure lid fully closed)
• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre - January only
• Hard rubbish collection - January only

• Podcycle
• Some manufacturers, e.g. Nespresso

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Donate, sell or give away
• Rubbish (landfill) bin (or disposable cutlery)

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Food and garden organics (FOGO) bin

• Home compost

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only)

• Communal food organics drop-off hubs

• Some community gardens, neighbourhood houses and urban farms (check first)

• Home compost, worm farm or bokashi

• Peels 

• Donate, sell or give away
• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Donate, sell or give away
• Clifton Hill Recycling centre (residents only, maximum 1 cubic metre of plastic plant pots and other hard plastics per drop-off)
• Rubbish (landfill) bin
• Hard rubbish collection

• Hard rubbish collection (for bamboo, palm fronds and ivy) 
• Food and garden organics (FOGO) bin (for other weeds)

Eligible drink containers include beer and cider bottles 150mL and 1L, carbonated water, flavoured water, soft drink and energy drink bottles 200 to 750mL, flavoured milk bottles between 150mL and 750mL, fruit and vegetable juice bottles 150ml to 1L and non-carbonated water, soft drinks and sports drink bottles150mL to 3L:

• Container Deposit Scheme

• Glass bin
• Container Deposit Scheme - Eligible drink containers marked with 10¢ refund logo only, including beer and cider bottles 150mL and 1L, carbonated water, flavoured water, soft drink and energy drink bottles 200 to 750mL, flavoured milk bottles between 150mL and 750mL, fruit and vegetable juice bottles 150ml to 1L and non-carbonated water, soft drinks and sports drink bottles150mL to 3L

• Donate, sell or give away
• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Donate, sell or give away
• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin 

• Donate, sell or give away
• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Hard rubbish collection (taped or made safe by other means)

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin 

• Donate, sell or give away

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Priceline, David Jones, Mecca, Sephora stores.
• Terracycle 

Open lid to allow remaining nail polish to dry before disposing.

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Donate, sell or giveaway

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, metal cake tins and trays only, maximum 50kg of metal per drop-off)

• Rubbish (landfill) bin 

This includes plates, bowls, cups, drinking glasses, knives, forks and spoons.

• Donate, sell or giveaway

• Rubbish (landfill) bin 

• Hard rubbish collection

• Donate, sell or giveaway

• Rubbish (landfill) bin 

• Donate, sell or give away

• Repair or restore

• Hard rubbish collection 

• Hard rubbish collection (maximum 1 mattress per collection) 

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 20 cans per drop-off)

• Rubbish (landfill) bin 

Eligible drink cans include beer and cider cans 150mL to 1L, carbonated water, soft drinks and energy drink cans 200-750mL, fruit and vegetable drink cans 150mL and 1L and non-carbonated water, soft drinks and sports drink cans 150mL to 3L:

• Container Deposit Scheme

• Recycling bin

• Recycling bin

• Donate, sell or giveaway
• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, metal cake tins and trays only, maximum 50kg of metal per drop-off)
• Rubbish (landfill) bin 

This includes empty food tins, pet food tins, paint tins and aluminium drink cans.

• Recycling bin
• Container Deposit Scheme - Eligible drink cans marked with 10¢ refund logo only, including beer and cider cans 150mL to 1L, carbonated water, soft drinks and energy drink cans 200-750mL, fruit and vegetable drink cans 150mL and 1L and non-carbonated water, soft drinks and sports drink cans 150mL to 3L

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 50kg metal per drop-off and no more than 1m in length)

• Officeworks

• Officeworks

• Refill for reuse 
• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 10 printer or toner cartridges per drop-off)
• Yarra library drop-off hub
• Cartridges 4 Planet Ark drop-off location 

• Donate, sell or giveaway
• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 6 books per drop-off)
• Street library
• Recycling bin (only books made entirely from paper, no batteries or fabric)

• Recycling bin (no waxed or lined cardboard)
• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 50kg of cardboard per drop-off)
• Burnley depot (small amounts only)
• Rubbish bin (waxed or lined cardboard and paper only)

• Recycling bin

Eligible drink containers include beer and cider cartons between 150mL and 1L, fruit and vegetable cartons 150mL to 1L and flavoured milk cartons between 150 and 750mL.

• Container Deposit Scheme 

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Recycling bin

• Recycling bin

• Recycling bin

• Recycling bin

• Recycling bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Recycling bin

• Recycling bin (no plastic/shiny/metallic paper)

• Rubbish (landfill) bin 

• Donate, sell or give away
• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Donate, sell or give away
• Rubbish bin

• Soft Plastics Stewardship Australia drop-off point
• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

Blue and black electric cable reels, bread and milk crates, plastic buckets, car bumper bars, plastic compost, household and wheelie bins, plastic laundry baskets, corflute signs, plastic plant pots, plastic storage containers, toy sandpits or swimming pools shells and truck mudguards:

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 1 cubic metres of hard plastic per drop-off) 

Eligible drink containers include beer and cider bottles 150mL and 1L, carbonated water, flavoured water, soft drink and energy drink bottles 200 to 750mL, flavoured milk bottles between 150mL and 750mL, fruit and vegetable juice bottles 150ml to 1L, non-carbonated water, soft drinks and sports drink bottles150mL to 3L:

• Container Deposit Scheme

Plastic bottles are plastic containers with a neck that are designed to hold liquids.

• Recycling bin (empty clear plastic bottles labelled 1 with no plastic wrap only)
• Rubbish (landfill) bin (opaque and coloured plastic bottles labelled 1 only)
• Container Deposit Scheme - Eligible drink containers marked with 10¢ refund logo only, including beer and cider bottles 150mL and 1L, carbonated water, flavoured milk bottles between 150mL and 750mL, flavoured water, soft drink and energy drink bottles 200 to 750mL, fruit and vegetable juice bottles 150ml to 1L and non-carbonated water, soft drinks and sports drink bottles150mL to 3L

Examples include empty detergent bottles, dip containers, ice-cream containers, margarine tubs, milk bottles plant pots, takeaway containers and yoghurt containers labelled 2 or 5.

• Recycling bin 

•  Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

Examples include bubble wrap, cereal box liners, chip packets, fresh and frozen food bags, mesh onion and citrus bags (clips removed), pasta/rice/bread/biscuit outer bags, plastic lolly wrappers, plastic mail satchels (labels removed), plastic pockets or document sleeves, plastic supermarket checkout bags, sandwich bags or zip lock bags, squeeze pouches (hard plastic lid and spout removed) and other soft plastics labelled 2, 4 or 5:

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 5 full shopping bags per drop-off) 
• Soft Plastics Stewardship Australia drop-off point

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin 

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 1 cubic metre of polystyrene per drop-off) 

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 1 cubic metre of polystyrene per drop-off) 

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Donate, sell or give away

• Repair

• Hard rubbish collection 

• Donate, sell or give away

• Repair

• Hard rubbish collection 

• Donate, sell or give away

• Repair

• Hard rubbish collection 

• Hard rubbish collection 

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 1 cubic metre of accepted items per drop-off)

• Hard rubbish collection (maximum 4 car tyres per collection) 

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Some optometry practices
• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 10 per light bulbs per drop-off, no fluorescent ones please)
• FluoroCycle (mercury containing lamps only, e.g. fluorescent bulbs and lamps)

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 5L in containers per drop-off)
• Some retailers for car parts and maintenance (motor or engine oil only)

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Rubbish (landfill) bin

• Yarra Customer Service Centres
• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 1kg per drop-off)

• Clifton Hill Recycling Centre (residents only, maximum 10kg x-rays and film per drop-off)