Shire of Kalamunda

Disposal Guide A to Z

- How to best dispose of your waste -

Note: Items taken to Red Hill Waste Management Facility for disposal may incur a fee

Household Item	Disposal Options
A
Acids (household)	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Aerosol cans (empty)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Aluminium cans	Yellow-top recycling bin
Aluminium foil	yellow-top recycling bin
Ammonia (HHW)*	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Asbestos	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
B
Baskets (cane & plastic)	Green-top rubbish bin or take to a recovery site (if in good condition)
Batteries (vehicle)	Battery retailers (many will take them back), take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Batteries (dry-cell)	Drop off at a battery recycle bin location, take to HHW Disposal Days, or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Batteries (rechargeable)	Drop off at Battery World, take to HHW Disposal Days, try www.mobilemuster.com.au (mobile phone batteries) or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Blankets	Take to a recovery site
Bleaches	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Books	Take to a recovery site
Bottles (place lids in separately)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Bricks	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Brake fluid	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Broken glass	Green-top rubbish bin
Building materials/waste	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Bulky household items	Verge collection or Bulk Bins
C
Cardboard (boxes/other)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Car bodies	Take to a recovery site
Car parts	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Cassette tapes/CDs/CD-Roms	Take to a recovery site or put in your green-top rubbish bin
Cellophane	Green-top rubbish bin
Ceramic (broken plates & pots)	Green-top rubbish bin
Cereal boxes	Yellow-top recycling bin
Cleaning products	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Clothing/shoes	Take to a recovery site
Cockroach bait (plastic)	Green-top rubbish bin
Computer components/accessories	Red Hill Waste Management Facility or list of recyclers below
Concrete	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Cork	Take to a recovery site or put in your green-top rubbish bin
Cosmetic jars	Green-top rubbish bin
Cups & saucers	Take to a recovery site (if clean & undamaged) or put in green-top rubbish bin
Cutlery (plastic, metal & other)	Green-top rubbish bin
D
Dirt & soil	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Drink cans	Yellow-top recycling bin
E
Electrical appliances/equipment	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Envelopes	Yellow-top recycling bin
F
Fertiliser	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Foam boxes	Green-top rubbish bin
Foam meat trays	Green-top rubbish bin
Foil	Yellow-top recycling bin
Food cans (emptied)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Food & vegetable scraps	Vegetable scraps: compost bin or worm farm. Food waste: green-top rubbish bin.
Furniture (in good condition)	Take to a recovery site
Furniture (broken)	Verge collection or bulk bins
G
Garden chemicals/poisons	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Garden hose	Green-top rubbish bin
Gas cylinders	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Glad wrap	Green-top rubbish bin
Glass jars & bottles (only)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Glossy magazines/brochures	Yellow-top recycling bin
Grease proof paper	Green-top rubbish bin
Greenwaste	Goes in a compost bin, otherwise in your brown-top greenwaste bin (Bayswater), greenwaste bulk bin (Belmont) or green-top rubbish bin. Will also be collected by verge collections
Greeting cards	Yellow-top recycling bin
I
Ice-cream containers (cardboard & plastic)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Insecticides	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
J
Jars	Yellow-top recycling bin
Juice cartons	Yellow-top recycling bin
Juice cartons (silver lined)/UHT	Green-top rubbish bin
Junk (too large for green-top bin)	Verge collections or bulk bins
Junk mail	Yellow-top recycling bin
K
Kerosene (HHW)*	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Kitty litter	Green-top rubbish bin
L
Light bulbs (inandescent & halogen)	Green-top rubbish bin
Lights: fluorescent tubes and CFLs See Fluorescent Light Recycling	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Liquid paper board	Yellow-top recycling bin
Long life cartons	Yellow-top recycling bin
Lunch boxes	Green-top rubbish bin
M
Magazines	Yellow-top recycling bin
Manure/animal droppings	Green-top rubbish bin
Margarine tubs	Yellow-top recycling bin
Mattresses	Take to Red Hill Waste Management Facility or if clean & unstained take to a recovery site.
Meat trays	Green-top rubbish bin
Medicines	Take to Red Hill Waste Management Facility; note: many pharmacies will take back old medicines. Check with your local pharmacist.
Milk bottles/cartons	Yellow-top recycling bin
Milk cartons (silver lined)/UHT	Green-top rubbish bin
Mineral turpentine	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Mobile phones	See www.mobilemuster.com.au for drop-off locations. Note: many phone retailers will take back old phones.
Motor oil⁺	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
N
Nappies	Green-top rubbish bin
Newspaper	Yellow-top recycling bin
Needles/Sharps⁺ (must be in a rigid and sealed container)	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
P
Paint tins (empty of paint)	Green-top rubbish bin
Paint (oil and water based)	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Paper (office)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Paper towel rolls (inner)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Paper bags	Yellow-top recycling bin
Pens/biros/pencils	Green-top rubbish bin
Pesticides	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Pet food tins (emptied)	Place in your yellow-top recycling bin
Petrol & flammable liquids	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Phone books	Yellow-top recycling bin
Picture frames (damaged)	Verge collections or bulk bins
Picture frames (undamaged)	Take to a recovery site
Pizza boxes (empty)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Plastic containers/bottles (place lids in bin separately)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Plastic plant pots (clean)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Plastic cutlery	Green-top rubbish bin
Plastic bags (empty)	Green-top rubbish bin
Plate glass	Green-top rubbish bin
Poisons (liquid/solid, scheduled S2-S7)	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Polystyrene	Green-top rubbish bin
Pool chemicals	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Pottery	Green-top rubbish bin
Printer cartridges	Take to a recovery site
Pyrex (ovenware)	Green-top rubbish bin. If in good condition take to a recovery site
R
Radiator coolant	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Rat poison	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Remote controls (without batteries)	Green-top rubbish bin
Rope	Take to a recovery site
S
Sauce bottles (emptied)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Seedling containers	Take to a recovery site
Smoke detectors	Take to HHW Disposal Days or Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Soft drink bottles & cans	Yellow-top recycling bin
Soil	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Spirit bottles	Yellow-top recycling bin
Steel cans (rinsed)	Yellow-top recycling bin
T
Terracotta tiles/pots	Green-top rubbish bin
Timber untreated pine/lightly coloured (first call EHB hotline on 1800 084 881)	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Timber dark hardwoods	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
Timber treated pine & other	Take to a recovery site
Toilet paper rolls (inner)	Yellow-top recycling bin
Toys (damaged)	Verge collection
Toys (undamaged)	Take to a recovery site
Tree prunings	Go in a compost bin, brown-top green waste bin (Bayswater), greenwaste bulk bin (Belmont), otherwise in your green-top rubbish bin.
Tyres	Red Hill Waste Management Facility
V
Vacuum cleaner dust & bag	Green-top rubbish bin
Vinyl - e.g. kitchen tiles	Green-top rubbish bin
W
Waxed cardboard	Yellow-top recycling bin
Waxed paper	Green-top rubbish bin
Weeds (without soil)	Go in a compost bin, brown-top green waste bin (Bayswater), greenwaste bulk bin (Belmont), otherwise in your green-top rubbish bin.
Window panes	Green-top rubbish bin
Wine bottles	Yellow-top recycling bin
Wrapping paper	Yellow-top recycling bin
X
X-rays	Green-top rubbish bin
Y
Yoghurt containers	Yellow-top recycling bin

⁺Residents living in the Town of Bassendean, Cities of Bayswater, Belmont, Swan and Shires of Kalamunda and Mundaring can take motor oil and sharps/needles (in sealed, rigid container) to HHW Disposal Days held at these councils/shires.

Computer equipment (Recycling fees may apply depending on the equipment)

Dell Computer Recycling: 1800 465 890 or email recycling_dell_au@dell.com (Dell brands only)
Collins Recycling Depot: 9457 3973, 16 Kembla Way, Willetton
Secure Computer Recycling & Disposal: 9467 4624 or email perth@computer-recycling.com.au
Students without Borders: 9360 6307 or email swb@guild.murdoch.edu.au (min 17” monitors & model year after 2000)
TADWA ( Technical Assistance to the Disabled WA): 9379 7400, 371 Collier Rd, Bassendean
Red Hill Waste Management Facility: 9574 6235, 1094 Toodyay Rd, Red Hill

Televisions and other electronic waste (Recycling fees payable)

Red Hill Waste Management Facility: 9574 6235, 1094 Toodyay Rd, Red Hill

Recovery Sites

Please note that this list is not exhaustive: if there are new free recovery sites you know about which are relevant for residents in Perth’s Eastern Region, please let us know via e-mail: mail@rgang.org.au

Charity organisations

Charity organisations will often take the following items provided they are in good condition and are not stained or broken: Blankets clothes, kitchenware, and ovenware, picture frames, mattresses (Vinnie’s will pick up clean mattresses), shoes and toys. Some charities will not accept electrical items. Contact the organisation first or see their website to find out if your items will be accepted.

Some charity websites:

♦ http://www.goodsammy.com.au

♦ http://www.vinnies.org.au

♦ http://www.rspcawa.asn.au

♦ http://salvos.org.au

♦ http://www.anglicare.org.au

For more charity sites, visit www.donations.com.au or visit www.yellowpages.com.au

Freecycle Online
www.freecycle.org

Freecycle is a website which aims to divert waste from landfill. You can advertise unwanted household goods upon joining the e-mail list. Membership, advertising and goods are free. For more information visit their website and find out your nearest freecycle group.

Planet Ark
www.planetark.com.au

Planet Ark host a community recycling website. www.recyclingnearyou.com.au which details recycling facilities available in your community.

Look out for Planet Ark's printer cartridge recycling service. For locations and details of how to participate, go to their website above.
You should also check Planet Ark’s Christmas card recycling initiative.

Plant Pot Recycling

The following locations in Perth’s Eastern Region will accept plant pots for recycling

Chidlow: Mundaring Shire Council Transfer Station, Mathieson Rd

Forrestfield: Dawsons Garden World, 160 Hale Rd

Hazelmere: Men of the Trees, Stirling Cres

High Wycombe: The Jolly Potter Nursery, 460 Kalamunda Rd

Middle Swan: Waldecks Garden Centre, 506 Great Northern Hwy

Mundaring: Mundaring Shire Council Transfer Station, Coppin Rd

Sawyer's Valley: Everbloom Nursery, 665 Railway Tce

Walliston: Kalamunda Shire Council Rubbish Transfer Station, Lawnbrook Rd

Wattle Grove: Trees A Green Garden Centre, 318 Hale Rd

REmida Creative Reuse Centre
www.remidawa.com
9227 5576

REmida is a centre which collects items for reuse from businesses and makes them available as resources for education, arts and environmental projects in WA. REmida may accept items such as CDs, CD-Roms and cork which are suitable for artwork. Please call first to check.