Recycling Guide
The City of Sydney is committed to recycling and we need your continued support to reduce waste to landfill.
Currently, residents divert approximately 30% of their waste from landfill. As a community we need to work together to increase this figure and recycle more of our household waste.
Benefits of Recycling
Recycling has many benefits for our community. It:
- reduces the amount of waste disposed to landfill
- conserves natural resources and protects the environment
- increases the life span of materials
- reduces greenhouse gas emissions
- conserves landfill space
- reduces disposal costs.
The NSW State Government has set aggressive targets for waste avoidance and resource recovery. By 2014, we must recycle more to increase the amount of waste being diverted from landfill from the current 30 per cent to 66 per cent. The State Government Waste Levy has also been increased, which means that we now pay more to send our waste to landfill.
What Items are Suitable for Recycling?
Download our brochure for Multi Unit Dwellings. This guide is for dwellings like apartments, units, and townhouses. A printed version and a version for Single Dwellings will also be available next year.
Do you Live in an Apartment Block?
Recycling Bin Stickers - Click image to enlarge
The City provides free signs for communal garbage rooms in Multi-Unit Dwellings to highlight to residents what can and can't be recycled.
New signs are currently being produced. Signs will be available from late April 2008.
The City also recognises that you may not have the latest bins available to unit blocks and would like to hear from you if you don’t have the same bins as shown below.
Ask your building manager, caretaker or secretary of the Body Corporate to order new bins and signs by filling in the online form or calling 9265 9333.
Resources for Building and Strata managers
The City of Sydney is updating its resources for waste and recycling services.
The resources complement the new waste and recycling guide which has recently been delivered to all unit block residents.
Please fill in this resource enquiry form if you would like any new:
- Recycling signs
- Bin stickers
These can be delivered to you and are ideal for use in your garbage room
Recycling Signs - Click image to enlarge
What Goes in Your Yellow Lid Bin or Black Crate?
Your yellow lid bin or black crate is used for mixed container recycling. This includes:
- CANS - steel and aerosol cans, aluminium cans, foil and trays
- GLASS - clear, brown, green and blue glass bottles and jars
- PLASTIC - disposable plastic containers with a 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 or R symbol on the bottom (excluding inflated polystyrene)
- CARTONS - Liquid paperboard milk and juice cartons and tetra paks.
Remember to lightly rinse, crush cans and plastic and remove lids.
What Goes in Your Blue Lid Bin or Blue Crate?
Your blue lid bin or blue crate is used for paper and cardboard recycling. This includes:
- PAPER - telephone books, office paper and envelopes, clean paper bags, junk mail, newspapers and magazines;
- CARDBOARD - egg cartons, clean pizza boxes and flattened cardboard boxes.
What Can’t be Recycled by the City of Sydney?
- Broken glass, window glass, pyrex, poison bottles, cans of paint or solvent, mirrors or ceramics (eg. china cups and plates).
- Waxed cardboard, tissue paper, food soiled paper and cardboard, frozen food packaging, and disposable nappies.
Downloads
- Waste and Recycling Guide - Multi | PDF 1Mb
- Domestic Waste and Recycling Collection Days | PDF 317Kb
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