C&G’s Guide to Recycling Bayside

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Scrap up on the latest rubbish guidelines with C&G’s Guide to Recycling Bayside

From fighting the war on waste to rebooting your recycling bins, National Recycling Week (12th-18th November 2018) is all the motivation you’ll need to minimalize rubbish and separate plastics from your general waste bin. In the latest C&G blog, we offer eco-friendly tips on Bayside recycling, garbage bins and hard rubbish collection, to help everyone improve their waste habits.

General Waste Bins

Baysiders receive weekly waste collection, fortnightly recycling services and optional fortnightly green waste services. It’s essential to place the right items in the right bin because different waste goes to landfill and recycling plants.

What you can put in your waste bin:

  • Broken Glass
  • Polystyrene
  • Nappies
  • Ceramics

What NOT to put in your waste bin:

  • Wood
  • Paint
  • Dirt
  • Chemicals

Recycling Bins (Blue Lids)

To make sure you recycle right, place items loosely in bin (not in plastic bags) and leave the lids on plastics. A handy tip to sorting plastics is to scrunch the plastic item – if it’s soft it shouldn’t go in your recycling bin.

What you can recycle:

  • Paper
  • Cardboard
  • Glass bottles
  • Cardboard
  • Aluminium (cans and trays)
  • Cartons

Green Waste (Red Lids)

For optional green waste collection (paid service), the following can be placed in your red lidded bin:

  • Grass clippings
  • Flowers
  • Small Branches
  • Weeds

Reduce Waste & Costs

Did you know you can downsize your kerbside bin and reduce the rate on your annual rate notice? Request a smaller general waste bin at any time and save $78.00. Find out more from Bayside City Council here.

Waste and Recycling Centre

If you have rubbish like paints, batteries, e-waste or fluorescent lights that don’t belong to kerbside collection, Bayside residents can travel to the Waste and Recycling Centre in Cheltenham for free disposal. Charges apply for general hard rubbish. For more about the Copperrock Waste Centre.

Hard Waste

Hard rubbish and waste collections occur twice a year, but properties can make two waste bookings per year (at least 6 weeks apart). Place hard waste on the nature strip on the day. If rubbish doesn’t comply to guidelines, you’ll receive a notice in your letterbox.

All hard waste must be divided into neat piles of the following:

  • General hard waste
  • Mattresses
  • Electronic items
  • Branches
  • Household furniture, fittings, toys, sporting goods
  • Timber
  • Carpet/linoleum
  • Appliances

For more about Bayside hard rubbish guidelines.

Improving your recycling and waste habits will not only minimalise general living costs in your home but will help promote sustainability in your entire community. For more information on Bayside recycling and waste collection, please visit the Bayside City Council website.