A-Z GUIDE TO DISPOSING OF WASTE 2020
Aerosol cans (empty)
Air conditioner units
Aluminium cans, foil trays
A Animal droppings
Asbestos
Ash (fire) extinguished/cold
Baby wipes / face wipes
Baking paper e.g. waxed
paper, muffin tins
Bandaids, earbuds, wipes etc.
Batteries (car, household,
AAA etc.)
Bicycles
Biscuit or meat trays
B Books
Bottles (glass and plastic)
Bottle tops (small)
Bottle tops (larger jar sizes)
Branches/prunings
(less than 10cm diameter)
Bricks and rubble
Building waste
Cameras
Cans (aluminium)
Car parts
Carpet
Cartridges (printer)
Cardboard
CDs and DVDs
Ceramics (broken)
Ceramics (intact)
Chip packets / soft
plastics
Chemicals (pool, garden
C and household)
Cling wrap / plastic film
Clothing and textiles
Coat hangers
Coffee cups
Coffee pods
Computers and
computer parts
Concrete
Corks
Cosmetic containers (plastic)
Cutlery (metal)
Cutlery (plastic)
General Waste Bin
Recycle Bin
Organics Bin / Compost Bin
KEY Donate to charity
Eaglehawk Eco Centre / Transfer
Stations / Drop off locations
Annual Detox Your Home drop off
For further information please contact the City of Greater Bendigo
Ph: 5434 6000 | E: requests@bendigo.vic.gov.au | 15 Hopetoun Street, Bendigo | www.bendigo.vic.gov.au/waste
Deoderant (empty)
Detergents
Detergent bottles (empty)
D Dog and cat poo
Dog and cat food tins
1 Shampoo and conditioner
(scraped clean)
Doors
Drinking straws
Electronic waste (e-waste)
(anything with a battery,
electric plug or cord)
E Electrical appliances
Egg cartons
Envelopes (paper)
Eyewear / glasses (intact)
Face wipes / baby wipes
Fire extinguishers
Fireplace ash
extinguished/cold
Foam boxes
F Foil (clean, golf ball size)
Food and vegetable scraps
Fuels
$
Fridges and freezers
Fruit stickers
Furniture
$ Gas bottles / cylinders
Garden tools / equipment
2 G Glass (broken window or
drinking - wrapped)
Grass clippings
Hair (human or animal)
Hot water units
Hose (garden)
5
H Household chemicals
Household cleaners/solvents
Hypodermic needles
5 Plastic shopping bags
J
Juice bottles and cartons
Junk mail
K Kitty litter (animal waste)
3 Weeds (with/without seeds)
Laminated paper
Lawn mowers
Leaves
L Light globes (incandescent -
wrapped)
Light globes (compact
fluorescent tubes)
Lolly wrappers
1- C
 ontact asbestos removal
company
2 - Cartridge drop off locations
e.g. Cartridge World, Bolton’s,
Planet Ark
3 - Coffee pods recycling systems
e.g. Nespresso, Terracycle
Magazines
Manure and animal
droppings (bagged)
Margarine containers
(scraped clean)
Medicine bottles
(empty and clean)
Medicines
Mattresses
$ M Meat trays (foam)
Meat trays (hard plastics)
Meat and fish bones
$
Microwaves
Milk cartons (products that
must be refridgerated - not
tetra pak)
Milk carton tetra pak
Mirrors (broken - wrapped)
Mobile phones
Nail polish
N
Nappies
Needles
Newspapers
$ Office paper
Oil (engine)
O Oil (cooking)
$ Ovens / white goods
Paint / paint tins
Pallets
Paper towel and tissues
Pill packets
Pizza boxes, brown papers
and cardboards
Plaster board
Plant pots (empty)
Plastic containers (ice cream,
4 peanut butter, yoghurt etc.)
P Plastic toys (intact)
Plastic film / cling wrap
Poly pipe
Polystyrene (household)
Polystyrene (bulk
packaging)
Pottery, porcelain (intact)
Pottery, porcelain (broken)
Pots and pans
Poisons, pesticides and
herbicides
5 Printer cartridges
4 - Immunisation Services at
the City of Greater Bendigo.
Phone 4408 6590
5 - Return to supermarket
6 - Scrap metal company
$ - Price may apply
Radios (electronic waste)
R Refrigerators / freezers $
Sauce bottles
Scrap metals 6
bottles
Shoes (good condition)
Smoke alarms
S Soil and rock
Steel cans
Straws (plastic drinking)
Suitcases / baggage
Styrofoam / polystyrene
Syringes / sharps 4
Takeaway food containers
(cardboard)
Takeaway food containers
(plastic)
Tea bags with strings and
staples
4
Telephone books
Television / electronics
Timber (treated)
Timber (natural, less than
T 10cm diameter)
Tin cans (scraped clean)
Tissues and napkins
Toilet rolls (empty)
Toner cartridges 2
Tools
Toys (intact)
Toys (broken)
Tubes - toothpaste
Tyres
Vacuums
Vacuum cleaner dust
V Vegetable scraps
VHS tapes
5
Washing machines
Waxed cardboard (shiny)
5
Waxed / soiled paper e.g.
muffin tins, baking paper
W White goods
Window glass (broken -
wrapped)
Wine bladder
Wood (treated)
Yoghurt containers
2 Y (scraped clean)
Not all items are listed. Please contact
Customer Service on 5434 6000 if you
have questions regarding the disposal
or price of a certain item.
Please note that sometimes markets
change and some materials will not be
accepted at transfer stations.