Handy guide to waste and recycling Bundaberg Region
Let's Get It Sorted overview - simple tips and why sorting your waste is important.
Waste comes from items not built to last, choosing easy options like takeway, single use packaging and not knowing how to refuse or recycle the product.
Reducing waste can help save money, help the environment and create new jobs. Bin graph showing household waste stats.
$720000 worth of containers for change end up in landfill each year. Small changes at home like using your yellow-lid bin properly and returning eligible containers can make a difference to saving costs and environment protection.
Yellow-lid bin recyclables are taken to our material recovery facility and shorted by hand. They are baled and transported for recycling into new products.
Contamination within recycling includes plastic bags, garden waste and soil, medical waste, nappies, food and other perishable waste, oil, chemicals and eWaste from electronic and small appliances.
Ask why before you buy! Choose to reuse, donate or on-selling items you no longer use. Visit our recycled good shops to find items before purchasing new. Other tips include borrow or swap items, repair, reuse or upcycle.
What you can do at home in the kitchen, bathroom and garden to at home to reduce waste.
List of items you can put in your yellow-lid bin include steel and aluminium, paper and cardboard, plastic jars and bottles, glass jars and bottles. Items you cannot put in your yellow-lid bin include food scraps, toys, car parts, glassware, tupperware, plastic bags, soft plastic, plastic trays and polystyrene. Keep it loose, don't bag your recycling.
Recycle Mate, your local recycling guide. Find community recycling drop-off locations near you. Download the app or search bundaberg.qld.gov.au to find the map on our site.
A - Z recycling guide with items listed alphabetically and colours highlighting if they go into the yello-lid bin, waste, charity, waste facilitie, battery recycle, containers for change, compost or if they are not accepted locally.
Battery recycling and ChemClear advise on ways to recycle in our region. To recycle batteries, tape the positive ends, bag and drop them in our many collection points. Information on ChemClear not for profit program.
Containers for change, drumMUSTER and eWaste local information.
Information about FluroCycle and what types of bulbs can be recycled free at Council facilities including U-tubes and incandescent lamps. Green waste disposal points listed to include all Council facilities in addition to Green Solutions Wide Bay.
More ways to recycle including Mobile Muster for mobile phones, printer cartridges, paintback for wet pain safe disposal locations in our Region.
Council kerbside bin service. Four easy ways to help our garbos with bin placement, spacing, bin lids and safety around trucks when collection is being made. Information on the bin day collection finder and recycling collection calendar.
Tips to make your trip to the tip easier before you leave home. Includes general safety messages such as closed in shoes and no smoking. Information on how to find opening hours, disposal fees and conditions of entry.
Free disposal items at your local waste facility. Including steel, batteries, e-Waste, paint (wet) and for domestic quantities and products only: chemicals 5 L or less, fluoros, oils engine and cooking 20 L containers no more the 50 L per visit.
Declare items and sort your load images. Notifying visitors your load may be inspected. Declare items like batteries, asbestos, batteries, tyres, oils, gas bottles and ammunition. Sort your load into general waste, steel and other metals, green waste, bricks and concrete, eWaste and recyclables.
Hazardous items. Images showing 'can' items that can be disposed of at Council waste facilities with declaration. Items that 'cannot' be disposed of at Council waste facilities include flares, explosives and ammunition or fuel.
Don't bin your batteries. Statistics show each household in our Region through away 11 batteries per year on average. This has caused more than 30 fires in Council trucks and facilities each year. Tape the positive end, bag it and drop it at local disposal points. Make battery recycling a habit. List of resources to find more information.
Not enough space in your recycling bin? Organise a second bin at a discounted rate by contacting Council.
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