Waste and Recycling Guide

BALLINA SHIRE waste and recycling guide URBAN GUIDE

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Our three bin system is an easy and convenient way to sort recyclables, reduce what we send to landfill and turn our ‘waste’ into valuable resources.

recycling bin

FORTNIGHTLY

Our recycling is sorted into all the different recyclable materials, then sent to factories that make them into new items. For example, glass can be made into road base and plastics can be made into clothing!

RECYCLING

organics bin

WEEKLY

Food and garden waste is turned into compost in giant rows. The compost is then used by farmers and gardeners to nourish our soils and grow more food.

landfill bin

FORTNIGHTLY

We like to call it ‘the bin of last resort’ because anything placed inside is buried in a big hole. This means it can’t be recycled into something else.

ORGANICS

RETURN AND EARN

Return and Earn is a NSW state government initiative that allows you to return eligible drink containers to an approved reverse vending machine collection point and receive a 10 cent refund per container. The program helps reduce litter and improve recycling of valuable resources.

Collect your beverage containers until you have a decent amount then bring them to Ballina’s Return and Earn reverse vending machine located at 42 De-Havilland Crescent, Ballina.

NO treated timber

compostable bin liners only

What goes in each bin?

Yellow Recycling Bin

Green Organics Bin

Red Landfill Bin

Ballina Resource Recovery Centre

Community Recycling Station

Donate, sell or give (if in good condition) Red Bin as last resort

A

Aerosol cans (empty)

Aerosol cans (full)

Paint (less than 20 litres)

Aluminium cans (clean)

Aluminium foil (clean)

Appliances

B

Baking paper

Bamboo food containers and cutlery

Batteries (household)

Biocups

Biscuit and cake trays (foam or plastic)

Bones (meat and fish)

Books

Bottle tops (smaller than a credit card)

Branches

Bread tags

Broken toys

Bubble wrap

Building materials (e.g. timber, tiles, tin etc.)

C

Cords and rope

Car batteries

Cardboard boxes and rolls

Cardboard egg cartons

Cardboard takeaway food containers (clean)

Cardboard takeaway food containers (oily)

Cartons milk and juice

Cassette tapes

CD covers

CD and DVD discs

Cellophane

Cereal box inserts

Chip and snack food packets

Cigarette butts

Cling wrap

Clothing

Coffee cups (including biocups)

Coffee grinds

Coffee pods

Compostable bin liners (must be certified AS 4736 or AS 5810)

Compostable food and drink packaging

Crockery and ceramics (broken)

Cutlery (steel)

Cutlery (plastic)

E

E-waste eg computers, printers, TVs

Eggshells

Electrical cables and cords

Envelopes (including windows)

F

Fire extinguishers

Flowers and dead plants

Foam underlay

Foiled lined packets

Food pouches

Food scraps (all)

Fruit and vegetable scraps (all)

Furniture

G

Garden trimmings

Garden waste (bulk)

Gas bottles

Glasses (eye/reading)

Glass jars and bottles

Glass (plates/Pyrex/mirrors)

Grains (e.g. pasta, bread, rice, noodles)

Grass clippings

H

Hair (human and pet)

Helium tanks

Hose and pipe

Household items (e.g. bikes, toys mowers, furniture, crockery etc.)

J

Junk mail (paper)

K Kitty litter

L

Laminated paper

Leaves

Lids (larger than a credit card)

Lids (smaller than a credit card)

Light bulbs and tubes

Lighters

M

Magazines

Manure (agricultural)

Matchboxes

Community Recycling Stations accept household wastes that cannot go into your kerbside bins: household batteries, smoke detectors, mobile phones & accessories, reading glasses, printer cartridges and x-rays.

Community Recycling Station

Stations are at Alstonville Leisure and Entertainment Centre, Ballina Library, Council Customer Service Centre and Lennox Cultural Centre.

Donate, sell or give (if in good condition)

Red Bin as last resort

Pill packets (all)

Pillows

Pizza boxes (clean)

Pizza boxes (oily)

Placemats

Material (e.g. sheets and towels)

Meat scraps (animal and fish)

Meat trays (foam and plastic)

Medicine bottles

Mesh and netting

Microwave glass turntables

Milk and drink boxes

Mobile phones & accessories

N

Newspapers

Nappies (disposable and degradable)

O

Office paper

Oils <20 litres

P

Paper towels and serviettes

Paint (less than 20 litres)

Paint tins (dried out & up to 4 litres)

Paper (oily)

Paper

Pens and pencils

Pet poo and poo bags

Plastic bags and soft plastic

Plastic containers and bottles (all hard plastic)

Plastic cups, plates and cutlery

Plastic plant pots

Polystyrene

Poppers (other tetra packs)

Printer cartridges

Punnets (e.g. berries)

R

Rope

Rubber bands

S School bags

Scrap metal

Seafood

Shoes

Shredded paper

Smoke detectors

Soil (small amounts only)

Steel tins and cans

Straws (plastic)

String and twine

Styrofoam

Yellow Recycling Bin

Green Organics Bin

Red Landfill Bin

Ballina Resource Recovery Centre

Community Recycling Station

Donate, sell or give (if in good condition) Red Bin as last resort

T

Takeaway foam containers and cups

Tea bags

Telephone books

Timber off-cuts

(SMALL – Not Treated, No paint and No nails or fittings)

Tissues

Tooth paste tubes

Toothbrushes

Treated Pine

Treated timber (small off - cuts)

Tyres

V

Vacuum cleaner dust

Video cassettes and covers

Vinyl W

Wallpaper

Waxed paper and cardboard

Weeds

White Goods

Window Glass

Windscreen glass

Wine casks inners

Wipes

Wrapping paper (paper)

Wrapping paper (plastic)

X

X-Rays

WHAT IS ACCEPTED?

Green/garden waste

Recycling

Landfill waste

Tyres

Building waste and soil

Fridges

Scrap Metal – FREE

Electronic waste – FREE

Community Recycling Centre items – FREE (see opposite)

Community Recycling Stations accept common household problem wastes that cannot go into kerbside binshousehold batteries, smoke detectors, mobile phones and accessories, reading glasses, printer cartridges and x-rays. Reading glasses are

• Ballina Library

• Lennox Head Cultural Centre.

Only small amounts can be accepted. If you have more than a handful, please drop off for free at the CRC.

SalvageShedalvageShed

Ballina’s Salvage Shed is a well organised tip shop that saves tonnes of reusable items from landfill, providing sustainable options for everyday materials and reducing the environmental impact of buying new.

Please transport all materials over the waste management centre weighbridge where potentially salvageable items are set aside at the transfer station. The Ballina Salvage Shed do not accept direct donations.

Operated by Momentum Collective in partnership with council, the store is located next to the Resource Recovery Centre at 167 Southern Cross Drive, Ballina.

Open 9.30am – 3.30pm daily (excluding public holidays).

Contact directly on 0429 934 557

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frequently asked questions

WHEN IS MY BIN COLLECTION DAY?

Find our what day your bins get emptied via the council website ballina.nsw.gov.au

WHY WEREN’T MY BINS COLLECTED?

If the truck was unable to collect your bin for any of the guidelines stated on page 13, please phone the hotline to be assessed. Collection times can vary between 5am to 3pm.

WHAT IF I NEED AN ADDITIONAL BIN?

An additional bin may be arranged at cost. Download our waste fees and charges factsheet at ballina.nsw. gov.au/resource-recovery-centre or contact us for details.

MY BIN HAS DISAPPEARED, WHAT SHOULD I DO?

Wait at least 48 hours as they have a habit of turning up. If it doesn’t reappear, contact the waste hotline to organise a replacement.

WHAT IF MY BIN NEEDS REPAIR?

Council has replacement parts, lids, wheels and axles and can be contacted for repairs.

WHEN I MOVE PROPERTIES, DO I TAKE MY BINS WITH ME?

Do not take bins with you. Council supplies and maintains all waste bins and they are assigned to set addresses so these must remain on the property if moving.

IS THERE A WASTE VOUCHER SYSTEM?

No. Council operates under a user pays system as its more equitable and represent the most efficient expenditure and least cost to the wider community.

HOW DO I CONTACT THE SALVAGE SHED TIP SHOP TO SEE IF THEY HAVE A SPECIFIC ITEM?

Contact the Salvage Shed directly on 0429 934 557. Council cannot assist with Salvage Shed enquiries.

HOW DO I CONTACT THE WASTE TEAM?

Council’s resource recovery hotline is 6686 1287 or email waste@ballina.nsw. gov.au

RESOURCE RECOVERY CENTRE

167 Southern Cross Drive, Ballina

Open daily

8am – 4pm (excluding public holidays)

Email waste@ballina.nsw.gov.au

Phone 6686 1287

SALVAGE SHED TIP SHOP

167 Southern Cross Drive, Ballina (next to the Resource Recovery Centre)

Open daily 9.30am – 3.30pm (excluding public holidays)

Phone 0429 934 557

CUSTOMER SERVICE CENTRE

40 Cherry Street, Ballina

Phone 1300 864 444