Cardboard coffee cups have a plastic lining which cannot be recycled, so please put these in your rubbish bin.

Plastic bags clog up the machinery which sorts general recycling. Please do not put soft plastics into your recycling bin. Many supermarkets and most of The Warehouse stores now have collection bins for soft plastics so they can be recycled.

Waste batteries tossed in with general rubbish or recycling can ignite and start fires. Many hardware stores and Council recycling stations will accept your batteries for safe disposal.

Pet poo and its packaging should be placed in your Council rubbish bin (even if the poop bag itself is compostable).

Only plastics numbered 1, 2 and 5 can be put into your recycling bin. Look for the number inside the recycling triangle.

Remove lids and put them in your rubbish bin. 

Lids are often made from a different material from the bottle, and lids are too small to go through the normal kerbside recycling process. Some Council recycling centres provide drop-off collection points for clean bottle tops.

Food residues contaminate recycling. Please scrape out any remaining food from containers and wash them clean. Rinse out bottles. Milk residue becomes very foul, so make sure you rinse out those milk bottles!

Clean parts of the box can go in your recycling. Any parts of the box which are very greasy or have leftover food stuck on should go in your rubbish bin.

Many recycling centres now accept drop-offs of wax-lined food and beverage cartons (for example Tetra Pak®) for recycling. However, if you’re disposing of these cartons at home, put them in the rubbish bin. 

Make sure any broken bulbs are wrapped before placing in your rubbish bin. Intact light bulbs can be dropped off at Mitre 10 stores to be recycled. 

Thermal paper contains chemical coatings which are not suitable for recycling. Put till receipts in your rubbish bin.

Drinking glasses melt at different temperatures from bottle glass, so they cannot be recycled with other household glass. If the glass is broken, wrap it carefully and place in your rubbish bin. Undamaged glasses can be donated and reused.