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| Aerosol cans | Empty cans can be added to your yellow recycling bin. |
| Aluminium cans | Empty cans can be added to your yellow recycling bin. |
| Aluminium foil | Roll into a ball and place it in the yellow recycling bin |
| Asbestos | Follow the link to find out how to safely dispose of asbestos waste from your home. |
| Batteries (car) | Drop off for free at the Community Recycling Centre at 8 Waltham Road, Artarmon. |
| Batteries (dry cell) | Drop off your old batteries at the Lane Cove Council, 48 Longueville Road during opening hours. There are also battery bins in Lane Cove Woolworths and Aldi, or arrange a collection through RecyleSmart. |
| Batteries (phone) | Mobile phones, batteries and chargers are recycled through MobileMuster. Drop off at Lane Cove Council, 48 Longueville Road. You can also download a reply-paid label so that you can send your mobile phone to MobileMuster by post. For further information visit www.mobilemuster.com.au. Alternatively arrange a collection through RecycleSmart. |
| Beauty products | Recycle used beauty products including shampoo, conditioner and face wash containers, used mascara tubes, makeup brushes, eyeshadow and makeup powder containers in collection bins in the foyer of the Civic Centre. Full list of what is accepted on Terracycles website. Alternativetly arrange a collection through RecyleSmart.
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| Bikes | Contact Cycle Re-cycle to donate unwanted bikes for re-use in the community. |
| Blister Packs | Arrange a collection through RecyleSmart.
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| Books | Try contacting Reverse Garbage or The Bower or a local charity shop to see if they will accept your old books. |
| Bubble Wrap | Go in your red bin
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| Building waste | Building materials and tyres (5 tyres per visit) can be accepted in small quantities at the Suez Ryde Transfer Station. |
| Cans | Empty cans can be added to your yellow recycling bin or taken to the Return and Earn stations at the Little Street Carpark or at 67 Mars Road, Lane Cove West. |
| Cars and car bodies | Accepted at SIMS Metal. |
| Cardboard | Clean cardboard can be added to your blue recycling bin. |
| Carpet | Carpet can be disposed of through the household clean-up service. Call 1300 655 006 to book a collection. |
| CD Players | Drop off for free at the Community Recycling Centre at 8 Waltham Road, Artarmon or arrange a collection through RecyleSmart. |
| Chemicals | Can be taken to a Household Chemical CleanOut event. |
| Christmas cards | Can be added to your blue recycling bin. |
| Clothing | Donate to a local charity, take clothing (any brand or condition) to your nearest H & M Clothing Store for reuse and recycling or arrange a collection through RecycleSmart. |
| Coffee Pods | Recycle used Nescafe coffee pods using the collection bin in the foyer of the Civic Centre or arrange a collection through RecycleSmart.
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| Computers | Drop off for free at the Community Recycling Centre at 8 Waltham Road, Artarmon or arrange a collection through RecycleSmart. |
| DVD Players | Drop off for free at the Community Recycling Centre at 8 Waltham Road, Artarmon or arrange a collection through RecycleSmart. |
| Egg cartons | Can be added to your blue recycling bin. |
| Envelopes | Can be added to your blue recycling bin. |
| E-waste | Drop off for free at the Community Recycling Centre at 8 Waltham Road, Artarmon or arrange a collection through RecycleSmart. |
| Folders | Lever arch folders go in your red bin. |
| Food waste | Can be recycled in a compost bin or worm farm. |
| Fridges | Metals from all white goods can be recycled via Lane Cove Council's household clean-up service. Call the waste solutions hotline on 1300 655 006 to arrange collection. |
| Freezers | Metals from all white goods can be recycled via Lane Cove Council's household clean-up service. Call the waste solutions hotline on 1300 655 006 to arrange collection. |
| Furniture | Council has partnered with The Bower Reuse and Repair Centre to collect or re-home unwanted goods that are still in usable condition. Too often, items going to landfill via council clean-up could still be used by someone else.
If the furnture is from IKEA you can take advantage of their Green Friday campaign where customers who sell back an unwanted IKEA product will receive value on an IKEA refund card to spend on something they need or love.
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| Garden waste | Goes into your green garden recycling bin. |
| Gas bottles/ cylinders | Drop off for free at the Community Recycling Centre at 8 Waltham Road, Artarmon. |
| General household waste | Goes into your red bin. |
| Glass Bottles and jars | Can be added to your yellow recycling bin. |
| Household cleaning products | Can be taken to a Household Chemical CleanOut event. |
| Ink cartridges | The light bulb recycling bin inside Woolworths in Lane Cove takes ink cartridges. There is also a collection bin in the foyer of the Lane Cove Council Administration Centre. Alternatively arrange a collection through RecyleSmart. |
| Juice and milk containers | Plastic juice
cartons and carboard milk containers go in the red bin. |
| Junk mail | Can be added to your blue recycling bin. |
| Light bulbs and fluro lights | Drop off for free at the Community Recycling Centre at 8 Waltham Road, Artarmon. Alternatively arrange a collection through RecycleSmart. |
| Magazines | Can be added to your blue recycling bin. |
| Metal | Metal can be taken to Suez Artarmon Resource Recovery Centre. |
| Milk containers | Plastic milk containers are accepted in the yellow lidded bin. |
| Mirrors | Small broken mirrors should be wrapped securely and placed into your red bin. |
| Mobile phones | Mobile phones, batteries and chargers are recycled through MobileMuster. Drop off at Lane Cove Council, 48 Longueville Road. You can also download a reply-paid label so that you can send your mobile phone to MobileMuster by post. For further information visit www.mobilemuster.com.au. Alternatively arrange a collection through RecycleSmart. |
| Needles | The safe sharps website has more information about safe disposal of needles. |
| Newspapers | Can be added to your blue recycling bin. |
| Office paper | Can be added to your blue recycling bin. |
| Oil | Drop off for free at the Community Recycling Centre at 8 Waltham Road, Artarmon. |
| Paint/ Paint tins | Drop off for free at the Community Recycling Centre at 8 Waltham Road, Artarmon. Alternatively arrange a collection through RecycleSmart. |
| Pallets | Can be taken to Suez Artarmon Resource Recovery Centre. |
| Paper | Can be added to your blue recycling bin. |
| Phone books | Can be added to your blue recycling bin. |
| Pizza boxes | Clean pizza boxes can be added to your blue recycling bin. Boxes containing food scraps and grease should be added to your red bin. |
| Plants | Can be added to your green garden waste bin. |
| Plastic bags | Can be re-used or alternatively arrange a collection through RecycleSmart.
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| Plastic bottles and containers | Can be added to your yellow recycling bin. |
| Plastics (soft packaging) | Arrange a collection through RecycleSmart.
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| Polystyrene and Styrofoam | Clean and white polystyrene can be collected through RecyleSmart. All other polystyrene and styrogoam goes into your red bin. |
| Pool chemicals | Can be taken to a Household Chemical CleanOut event. |
| Printer cartridges | Drop off the following brands for free at the Community Recycling Centre at 8 Waltham Road, Artarmon - Brother, Canon, Dell, Epson, HP, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Lexmark, Roland, Samsung, Sharp and Toshiba. Printer cartridges can also be taken to Australia Post outlets to be recycled through the Planet Ark project. Alternatively arrange a collection through RecycleSmart. |
| Scrap metals | Metal and steel including keys can be taken to Cleanaway Artarmon Resource Recovery Centre.(Currently closed) |
| Sharps/ needles | The safe sharps website has more information about safe disposal of needles.
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| Shredded Paper | Small amounts of shredded paper, ideally placed in a paper bag, will be accepted in your blue bin. |
| Smoke detectors | Drop off for free at the Community Recycling Centre at 8 Waltham Road, Artarmon. Alternatively arrange a collection through RecycleSmart. |
| Solar Panels | Contact PV Industries at Auburn to arrange for your solar panels to be recycled. |
| Solvents | Can be taken to a Household Chemical CleanOut event. |
| Spectacles | Lions Clubs collect prescription and non-prescription glasses and sunglasses to donate to people in need via humanitarian aid organisations. |
| Televisions | Drop off for free at the Community Recycling Centre at 8 Waltham Road, Artarmon. |
| Timber | See the Timer Recycling Scheme directory of locations accepting donated timber. |
| Toothbrushes | Recycle used toothbrushes and dental products in collection bins in the foyer of the Civic Centre. Full list of what is accepted on Terracycles website. |
| White goods | Metals from all white goods can be recycled via Lane Cove Council's household clean-up service. Call the waste solutions hotline on 1300 655 006 to arrange collection. |
| Wire coat hangers | Can be added to your yellow recycle bin |
| X- rays | Go in your red bin.
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