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Paper and cardboard

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Glass (bottles and jars)

Steel and aluminium

Email: wasteandrecycling@bundaberg.qld.gov.au

Items you can recycle

Reggie's top recycling tips

Recycle in every room of your houseMake it easy by placing a bin for recyclables in your kitchen, bathroom, laundry and garage. Don’t forget that empty aerosol cans can be recycled.

Don’t bag your recyclablesPlastic bags can’t be opened for safety reasons and items go to landfill instead. Reuse your plastic bags at home or take them to your nearest supermarket for recycling.

Recycle your kitchen wasteComposting and worm farming can turn your kitchen and garden waste into nutrient rich mulch and fertilizer and reduces waste going to landfill.

Know what can be recycled Be informed and know what can and what can’t go into your recycling. Refer over page for an A-Z list and check out Council's website for more information.

Reuse milk cartons for seedling planters

Use glass jars for storage containers at home

Borrow magazines from Council libraries

Old clothes, toys and furniture can be donated to charity or upcycled into something new

Plastic (bottles and jars)

Think “reuse” firstThere are so many ways to repurpose items around the house. Here are just a few ideas:

Please remove lids

Remember it’s rubbish if you don’t recycle

Items you cannot recycle Polystyrene

Food scraps

Green waste and vegetation

Ceramics and crockery

Do not bag recyclables

Remember . . . Fold boxes to save space

Remove lids from drink bottles and containers

No need to crush tins and cans

Rinse recyclables for a better end product

Reggie Regenerator’s A-Z of Recycling

Glassware Tupperware Nappies Plastic bags Soft plastics

Turpentine and methylated spirit bottles

Syringes

Sharps containers

Did you know . . .Household recyclables from your yellow lidded wheelie bin are delivered to the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) which is operated by IMPACT Community Services. Impact staff manage a program to provide employment and training opportunities for people who may be disadvantaged within our community.

Household recyclables are hand sorted before being baled into the following categories:

Let recyclables

'hang loose'

A Aerosol cans (empty) Aluminium cans Aluminium foil (clean)

B Books (damaged) Bottles (glass & plastic) Boxes (packing/food etc.)

C Cardboard Coffee tins and jars

D Drink cartons (milk, juice etc.)

E Envelopes Egg cartons

F Food tins (clean)

G Glass bottles and jars

I Ice-cream containers

J Jars (glass & plastic) Jar lids Juice bottles & cartons Junk mail

L Laundry detergent bottles

M Magazines Milk cartons (cardboard) Milk bottles (plastic) Margarine containers Medicine bottles (empty)

N Newspapers

O Office paper

P Paint tins (empty) Paper towel rolls Pet food tins (clean) Pizza boxes Plastic (bottles & jars)

S Shampoo bottles Soft drink bottles Soft drink cans Steel cans

T Telephone books Toilet paper rolls Tin cans

Paper Milk bottles Clear glass Aluminium Cardboard

Soft drink bottles Coloured Glass Shrink wrap Steel

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