Town of Bassendean
Using Your Bins Correctly
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NO Glass Bottles
NO Hot Ashes
NO Construction or Building Materials
NO Household Hazardous Waste
NO Motor Oil
NO Car Batteries
NO Heavy Items
If you have a compost bin, click here for a full list of items that can be put in this bin.
Yellow-top Recycling Bin
The contents of your yellow-top recycling bin are collected fortnightly and are sorted and bailed at the material recovery facility and sold to industry for re-processing.
Items should be loose (DO NOT PUT IN PLASTIC BAGS), and if possible scraped out clean.
Items you can put in your recycling bin
Plastic: Bottles and lids (separately), margarine and ice-cream containers (up to 5 litres in capacity), and flower pots (clean). Look for the recycling symbol.
Steel: Food/drink cans and aerosol cans.
Cardboard: Cereal boxes, pizza boxes (empty), boxes and egg cartons.
Glass: Bottles and jars.
Aluminium: Cans, clean foil and foil trays.
Paper: Magazines, newspapers, office paper, envelopes and glossy paper.
Items you should not put in your recycling bin
NO plastic bags
NO food or garden waste
NO broken glass
NO electrical goods
NO clothing, textiles or bedding
NO nappies
NO ceramics or pyrex
NO overfilling
NO oil or paint
