Our friendly staff look forward to assisting with your enquiry.
For more information on detox your home, please visit Sustainability Victoria's website.
Also known as Band-Aids, Elastoplast and Sticky Plasters.
Accepted at the soft plastic recycling bins in Coles and Woolworths stores through REDcycle.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
It is best to ask for no junk mail and search for discounts online.
If you do get advertising material, separate paper from plastic covering and place soft plastics in your nearest REDCycle bin at Coles or Woolworths.
Make sure it is empty first!
To be eligible for the recycling, the aluminium must be free of food and liquid.
If in small amounts, scrunch it together until it is the size of a tennis ball to prevent it from falling through the gaps at the sorting facility.
Anything with a plug, battery or cord is E-waste. The Victorian Government banned all e-waste from landfill from 1 July 2019.
Even suspected asbestos should be disposed of as asbestos.
Asbestos can be disposed of at Bairnsdale Landfill. Deliveries require 24 hours notice, you will need to phone the landfill on 03 5152 6535 to make an appointment.
Before you arrive at the Landfill, asbestos:
Landfill staff are not able to assist you with unloading, if you have trouble lifting you may want to bring someone to help you unload.
If asbestos waste is incorrectly wrapped or in unmanageable parcels it will not be accepted.
Bairnsdale: 200 Johnstons Rd, Forge Creek
Best practise is to use cloth wipes that can be laundered and re-used.
Otherwise disposable wipes go in the general waste. This also applies to any wipes that say they are 'flushable' or 'compostable'.
Please do not flush wipes down the toilet as they will clog the system.
All sites accept bailing twine in general waste.
Balloons are very harmful to wildlife and our environment.
It is recommended to avoid balloons and use flowers or bubbles as an alternative.
Barbeques in good condition can be taken to the tip shop at the Bairnsdale landfill. Barbeques that are not in a good condition, can be taken to our landfill and transfer stations.
Accepted at:
All landfill and transfer stations.
Household batteries can also be taken to participating Aldi stores.
Good condition bicycles can be taken to the tip shop at the Bairnsdale landfill.
Bicycles can be accepted as scrap metal at:
All landfill and transfer stations.
Accepted at the soft plastic recycling bins in Coles and Woolworths stores through REDcycle.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
If in good condition, donate to an opp shop or Animal Aid shelter. If not in good condition, take to a landfill or transfer station.
All landfill and transfer stations.
If in good condition, they can be taken to an opp shop. If not in good condition but not soiled, can be placed in the recycling.
Needs to be collected in a tin can with the lid squeezed shut to go in the recycling.
Lids can be loosely screwed on.
Only accepted if the plastic code (chasing arrows symbol with a number) is 1,2 or 5. If in doubt, leave it out!
Lids can be loosely screwed on.
Accepted in your Green waste bin up to 75mm in diameter and 750mm in length.
Accepted at transfer stations if under 300mm in diameter.
If in good condition, donate to the Uplift Project. If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
Accepted at the soft plastic recycling bins in Coles and Woolworths stores through REDcycle.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
Collect and donate to Bread Tags for Wheelchairs initiative. If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
Accepted at the soft plastic recycling bins in Coles and Woolworths stores through REDcycle.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
Building and construction waste is accepted at:
For information on asbestos disposal, visit www.eastgippsland.vic.gov.au/building-and-development/asbestos
All landfill and transfer stations.
Can also be sent to Gram Destruction.
Anything with a plug, battery or cord is E-waste. Note: The Victorian Government banned all e-waste from landfill as of 1 July 2019.
Metal parts are accepted in steel recycling.
All landfill and transfer stations
Accepted at all sites as general waste.
All landfill and transfer stations.
Cartridges for Planet Ark offer printer cartridge collection services. If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
Accepted at the soft plastic recycling bins in Coles and Woolworths stores through REDcycle.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
Note: The Victorian Government banned all e-waste from landfill as of 1 July 2019.
Accepted at the soft plastic recycling bins in Coles and Woolworths stores through REDcycle.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
Clean Fill can only be disposed of at Bairnsdale Landfill.
If the container still has product in it, take to Detox Your Home.
For more information on detox your home, please visit Sustainability Victoria's website.
Empty containers may be recyclable if it has codes 1, 2 and 5.
Accepted at the soft plastic recycling bins in Coles and Woolworths stores through REDcycle.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
If in good condition donate to an opp shop.
Textile recycling trial
We begain a six-month textile recycling trial on 1 July 2023. Residents can dispose of clean textile waste (that cannot be given to charity shops) at the Bairnsdale Landfill.
Fees:
Single item: $2
Bag (up to 80 litre): $8
Bin (quarter of cubic metre): $12
Cubic metre: $50
Textiles will be baled by the Bairnsdale Recycling Enterprise Inc. and sent to Textile Recyclers Australia to be sorted and recycled through various streams.
If you can't visit Bairnsdale Landfill, you can also send directly to Upparel or Textile Recyclers Australia to be recycled into new clothes.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, clothes also accepted in General Waste.
Avoid disposable cups by bringing your own.
The lid may be recyclable if it has a number 1, 2 or 5 in a chasing arrows symbol.
Avoid disposable coffee pods by purchasing compatible reusable alternatives.
Accepted for free at:
Note: The Victorian Government banned all e-waste from landfill as of 1 July 2019.
Low level contaminated soil category C accepted at Bairnsdale. See the EPA website for more information on contaminated soils
Bairnsdale Landfill
For more information on detox your home, please visit Sustainability Victoria's website.
For more information on detox your home, please visit Sustainability Victoria's website.
Alternatively, you can send DVDs to Gram Destruction.
Good condition doors can be taken to the tip shop at the Bairnsdale Landfill.
Otherwise take to your nearest Transfer Station or Landfill.
Accepted at all sites depending on the material type.
Note: The Victorian Government banned all e-waste from landfill from 1 July 2019.
E-waste is accepted at:
Chem Clear take any unused agricultural chemicals.
For more information on detox your home, please visit Sustainability Victoria's website.
Alternatively, call the CFA on 1300 36 36 61 to find which local brigade accepts unwanted or used extinguishers.
Any unwanted flares can be taken to your local police station to be disposed of.
Accepted at the soft plastic recycling bins in Coles and Woolworths stores through REDcycle.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
It is best practice to compost or worm farm your food scraps (details can be found on the food waste page), or find someone else who can through share waste.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
If still working, donate or sell. Otherwise, free to dispose at transfer stations.
Accepted as scrap metal at:
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
If in working condition, donate or sell.
Otherwise, it can be taken to a transfer station or landfill and will be disposed of depending on the material type.
For locations of landfills and transfer stations, click on the button below.
Green waste is accepted at:
Gas bottles are accepted at:
If intact, donate or sell. If broken, take to a transfer station or landfill.
For locations of landfill and transfer station, please click on the button below.
Donate to Lions for Sight program (collection located at Specsavers in Bairnsdale).
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
For more information on detox your home, please visit Sustainability Victoria's website.
Green waste is accepted at:
Note: The Victorian Government banned all e-waste from landfill as of 1 July 2019.
For more information on detox your home, please visit Sustainability Victoria's website.
LED and Fluorescent light globes disposed for free at Bairnsdale.
Bairnsdale Landfill
Accepted at the soft plastic recycling bins in Coles and Woolworths stores through REDcycle.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
You have multiple options for disposing of mattresses. Options are:
For a list of landfills and transfer stations, click the below button.
Return unwanted medicines project. Most pharmacies should accept your unwanted medicines for free through this program.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
Note: The Victorian Government banned all e-waste from landfill as of 1 July 2019.
For more information on detox your home, please visit Sustainability Victoria's website.
Donate to Uplift Project if in good condition For help to get started with cloth nappies, visit Cloth Baby.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.
If in good condition, donate or sell. Otherwise take to a landfill or transfer station.
For landfill and transfer station locations, please click the below button.
It is also accepted at some landfills, see below for more information.
For more information on detox your home, please visit Sustainability Victoria's website.
Accepted at the soft plastic recycling bins in Coles and Woolworths stores through REDcycle.
If the best option doesn’t work for you, this is also accepted in General Waste.