Where to take items for recycling in Yarra.
We have two free recycling drop-off centres in Yarra.
This service is for Yarra residents only, so you will be asked for identification at the recycling centre. Please make sure that you have a copy of your rates notice or driver's licence.
What can be recycled?
See below our list of accepted items.
Address
168 Roseneath Street, Clifton Hill
(near the main Yarra Council depot entrance)
Opening hours
Monday to Friday
8.30am to 3.45pm (excluding public holidays)
Saturday and Sunday
9am to 4.45pm
Note: The centre is closed on public holidays and will temporarily close if the temperature exceeds 35C.
What can be recycled?
Cardboard only
Address
440 Burnley Street, Burnley
Opening hours
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
What can be recycled?
See below our list of accepted items.
Address
168 Roseneath Street, Clifton Hill
(near the main Yarra Council depot entrance)
Opening hours
Monday to Friday
8.30am to 3.45pm (excluding public holidays)
Saturday and Sunday
9am to 4.45pm
Note: The centre is closed on public holidays and will temporarily close if the temperature exceeds 35C.
What can be recycled?
Cardboard only
Address
440 Burnley Street, Burnley
Opening hours
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
You can also pick up free mulch from the Clifton Hill recycling drop-off centre. The availability, amount and type will vary.
Aggressive and abusive behaviour towards staff will not be tolerated. Offenders will be asked to leave the premises and permanently banned.
See our Circular Economy Map for more options and locations for reducing, reusing and recycling.
Please note that we cannot accept white goods or household chemicals. Recycling Centre staff reserve the right to refuse items if they are above the size or weight limited listed below.
You can book two free hard rubbish collections a year to dispose of large items.
Visit Sustainability Victoria for information about how to safely dispose of household chemicals.
Maximum 20 cans per drop-off.
Empty aerosol cans only. Aerosol cans are recycled in the metal and steel stream and are sent to Norstar Steel Recyclers.
Maximum 1 cubic metre per drop-off.
We have partnered with Our Village to trial a donations drop-off point at the Clifton Hill Recycling Centre. Yarra families are invited to drop off their quality items for babies and children. These will be collected by Our Village, who will give your donations to families in need.
Maximum 1kg per drop-off.
Used batteries are sent to ecocycle, a mercury recycling and recovery company.
Maximum 2 car batteries per drop-off.
Household quantities only. Car batteries are sent to Ariel Batteries where they're separated into different components. The lead is separated from the polypropylene (plastic case) and melted down in a furnace, and used to manufacture new batteries. The plastic case is washed and recycled. The acid is treated and neutralised. New car batteries are typically made with up to 80% recycled materials.
Maximum 5 per drop-off.
Bike tyres and tubes are collected and recycled by Recycle Bike Tyres. The rubber is used in road, athletic and playground surfaces.
Maximum 6 per drop-off.
We have a free book exchange for residents to drop off. We also take books which are in good reusable condition.
Maximum 50kg per drop-off.
Clean and dry cardboard only. Cardboard is sent to Australian Paper Recovery for sorting. It then goes onto local Victorian industry to make apple packing and egg boxes.
We have various charity bins for residents to donate clothes and accessories that are still wearable.
Items we accept in the yellow-lidded recycling bin can also be brought to our recycling drop-off centre. Please separate these items into different groups at the drop-off centre so they're ready to be recycled. Collected materials are transported to a recovery facility and sold to local markets for recycling in Australia.
- Paper and flattened cardboard
- Egg cartons
- Newspaper, books, junk mail and magazines
- Aluminium and steel cans
- Aluminium foil
- Metal lids from bottles and jars
- Plastic empty bottles labelled 1 or 2
- Most plastic items labelled 5
Maximum 20kg per drop-off.
Computer waste includes desktops, laptops, computer mice, monitors, printers, disk and CD drives and other computer parts and is sent to Tech Collect and broken down into separate materials. They are recycled into things such as keyboards, garden equipment, glass bottles, windows, car bodies, copper tubes and jewellery.
Maximum 20kg per drop off.
Including: stereo equipment, CD players, DVD and VCR recorders, kettles, toasters, blenders and any other electrical items with a cord. We do not accept large white goods such as fridges and washing machines.
Electrical equipment is sent to Norstar Steel Recyclers. After processing, recycled metal is sold as a raw material to local and international end users.
Maximum 2 gas bottles/cylinders per drop-off.
Gas bottles are recycled by Cyl-Safe, a Work Safe approved company that decommissions cylinders making them safe and ready for melting the metal and recycling it into new products.
Clean and empty, with no lids.
Good quality glass is sent to Visy Glass for recycling back into new glass bottles and jars for use by local brewing and food manufacturing industry.
Lower quality glass which cannot be made into new glass bottles and jars, is sent to the Alex Fraser Group to be used as a sand replacement for road resurfacing and other construction projects throughout Victoria.
Maximum 10 per drop-off.
We accept light bulbs and tubes (not fluorescent).
Maximum 50kg and no more than 1m in length.
All metal and steel is sent to Norstar Steel Recyclers. It's broken down through a variety of methods, including sorting, shredding, shearing, oxy cutting, baling and compacting. After processing, the recycled metal is sold as a raw material to local and international end users.
Maximum 10 per drop-off.
Mobile phones and accessories are sent to Mobile Muster here in Melbourne where they are sorted and disassembled into components: batteries, printed circuit boards, casing, screens, accessories and packaging.
- Glass is melted, crushed and used to produce new glass products or as a replacement material in road base and construction
- Aluminium is melted in a furnace and the liquid aluminium is then placed in moulds to create new aluminium products
- Precious metals including gold, silver, palladium, platinum and copper are separated, extracted and processed to be reused again
- Lithium batteries are processed to recover valuable materials including steel and a mixed metal compound of graphene, nickel, cobalt and lithium that can be used to make new batteries
Plastic is processed into pellets and turned into new products like pallets.
Maximum 5L of cooking oil or engine oil in containers with secured lids per drop-off.
Maximum 5x20 litre containers per drop-off.
Accepted paint products only. Lids must be secured. Collected paint containers are sent to Paintback and the packaging and waste liquid are separated. The containers are recycled and the waste paint is used to recover energy for solvent and liquid/solid separation for water-based paint.
Maximum 1 cubic metre.
Hard plastic that holds its shape, e.g. garden pots, storage container, buckets, laundry baskets, wheelie bins, household bins, compost bins, bread and milk crates, toy sandpits/swimming pools, blue and black electric cable reels, truck mudguards/car bumper bars, corflute.
These hard plastics are sent to GT Recycling for processing into plastic pellets that go into bins, buckets, pots and garden edging.
Maximum 1 cubic metre.
Using a special thermal compaction unit, expanded polystyrene is processed at our recycling drop-off facility into moulded compacted polystyrene product reducing the overall volume by 90%.
This saves costs associated with transporting large volumes of low weight material, making it viable to collect for recycling.
Compacted polystyrene is sent to IS Recycling who then export to a pelletizing facility. These pellets are then used to manufacture a range of products including construction materials, flooring and picture frames.
Maximum 10 per drop-off.
Printers and cartridges are broken down into components to be made into something new. The plastic is sent to a processing plant where it is melted down and incorporated into a wide range of products e.g. ink cartridges, pens, mouse mats, disposable cups and pencil cases.
The remaining toner in the cartridge is used in an innovative paving product called TonerPave. The metal parts are also processed and used again.
Any other remaining parts are processed together and used to create eWood, a synthetic timber which can be used just as natural wood can for a range of projects such as furniture, sheds and fencing products.
Maximum 5 full shopping bags per drop-off.
We're collecting a limited amount of soft plastics. These soft plastics are taken to Australian Paper Recovery (APR). They are made into oil for the manufacture of food grade plastic products and gas which powers the processing machine. Please only include clean and empty soft plastics, such as supermarket checkout bags, compostable bags, sandwich bags, postal bags, shrink wrap, pasta/rice/bread/biscuit outer bags, frozen food packets, bubble wrap and plastic pockets. Don't include soft plastics with any food residue.
Maximum 20kg per drop off.
Televisions are sent to Tech Collect and broken down into separate materials e.g. glass, steel, plastic. They are then recycled into things such as new televisions or IT equipment.
Maximum 10kg per drop-off.
Collected x-rays and film are sent to MD Recovery. They are incinerated and all patient and confidential information is destroyed. Silver is then recovered from the ash residue.