Your Recycle Bin
The City of Mandurah provides a fortnightly recycling collection service for domestic and multiple dwelling residences. The yellow-lidded 240 Litre wheelie bin is for your recyclable domestic waste only. All recyclable items can go into the bin together.
This is the most convenient and efficient service offered to residents as the recyclables do not need to be sorted by different materials before they are collected.
All items must go in the bin loose and not in plastic bags.
What can be recycled with your yellow-lidded wheelie bin?
Many packaging items made from paper/cardboard, plastic, aluminium, steel and glass are recyclable.
However, there are some items made from these materials which cannot be placed in your yellow-lidded recycle bin because there are no markets for them. Non-recyclable materials mixed in with recyclable materials can hinder the recycling process, as well as affect the quality of the recycled products. Therefore, non-recyclable packaging items must be kept OUT of the yellow-lidded recycle bin.
Recyclable items must be free of "contaminants" as well, i.e. food residues, lids, plastic wrapping, etc. These non-recyclable and contaminating items must be placed in the green general waste wheelie bin. Food scraps and green garden wastes are also contaminating to the recycling process and must also be kept OUT of the yellow-lidded recycle bin.
The following guidelines will help you to understand what can and cannot be recycled in the City of Mandurah.
| Material | Can Be Recycled | Cannot Be Recycled |
|---|---|---|
| Newspaper Office Paper Cardboard Drink Cartons and Long Life Cartons | Most paper and cardboard items - newspaper, magazines, envelopes, scrap paper, junk mail, milk and juice cartons and other cardboard boxes and containers. REMOVE plastic wrap, paper clips, plastic windows, food residues, and other non-paper materials. | Paper/cardboard items heavily contaminated with oil and grease. Books and other bound paper documents. Toilet tissue or paper towels. Do not bundle the material. Put it in your bin loose. |
| Plastic Containers | All plastic bottles can go into your recycling bin, provided they are empty and that they have the recycling symbol on the bottom: -Milk & Juice bottles -Soft drink bottles -Detergent bottles -Shampoo etc -All shapes and size bottles. REMOVE food and liquid residues, lids, rings and labels. | Plastic items that are not bottles are not recyclable!! Take away containers, margarine, ice cream and yogurt containers, pot plants, plastic toys and all varieties of plastic bags and wrapping cannot be recycled as they are not made out of the right type of plastic. |
| Steel & Aluminium Cans including Aerosols | Cans and aerosols only. REMOVE food and liquid residues, and take the lid and nozzle off aerosols. Lids from tin cans can go in as well and are best placed inside the can. | Other non-packaging aluminium & steel products such as car parts, wire, scrap metal, knives, pots and pans etc. |
| Glass Bottles & Jars Only | Glass jars and bottles only. It doesn't matter what size or colour - if it is a jar or a bottle it can be recycled. REMOVE food and liquid residues, all lids, corks. | All other glass products such as crockery, pyrex, drink and wine glasses, coffee cups, china, bone, pottery, tiles, windows, windscreens, light bulbs, reading glasses, etc. No broken glass. |
Please make sure you put only those items listed above in your yellow topped recycling bin.
There are no markets for other materials, even if they do contain the recycling symbol. As items are sorted by hand as well as by machine, unwanted items "clog" the system and slow the sorting process down.
Please place items in your bin LOOSE, not inside plastic bags as bagged items cannot be sorted properly and are treated as general waste.
Please be careful with plastics as there are many different types ad most are not recyclable. Only plastic bottles that display the recycling symbol on the bottom are recyclable.
Please place your bins out for collection approximately 1 metre from the kerb with the bins approximately 1/2 metre apart with the opening side of the bin facing the roadside.
Bins that are the wrong way around or too close together cannot be emptied.
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