Living Here
Recycling is Easy!
If you have a kerbside recycling bin service, it makes recycling at home easy. When you recycle you are conserving resources and diverting waste from our landfill. You reduce environmental pollution, conserve natural resources like water, natural minerals, and timber.
But it’s the small mistakes that can make this great effort literally go to waste by contamination. Contamination is putting items in the bin that aren’t accepted for recycling, or products that haven’t been cleaned out properly. Disposing of recyclables is free (up to a 240L wheelie bin) for Gladstone Region residents, so separating your recyclables from other rubbish will save you considerable money and time at the tip or transfer station.
It’s important to put the correct items in the bin, to ensure everything gets recycled.
A few general tips for better recycling
- Find out what recycling options are available near you for recycling items like e-waste, batteries, and paint by visiting the Recycling Near You website.
- You can put drink containers in your recycling bin at home or collect your 10 cent refund on eligible containers.
- Do not put your recyclables into the recycling bin in a plastic bag – keep it loose.
- Clean out your recycling items to make sure they are accepted for recycling—a quick rinse or a scrape out of left-over food can make all the difference.
- Keep grass clippings, garden waste, food and liquid out of your recycling bin, as they can ruin items and make them unsuitable for recycling.
- Do not put soft, scrunchable plastics in the recycling bin.
- Flatten boxes before recycling them to make more space.
- Remember only plastics numbered 1, 2, 4 and 5 can be recycled.
Specialised Services
Fire extinguishers can be taken to:
Chubb Fire Safety
Shop 4, 35 Chapple Street
Gladstone Qld 4680
Phone: (07) 4973 4500
For safe collection of unwanted chemicals, you can register at www.chemclear.com.au or phone 1800 008 182. Fees may apply.
For unwanted household chemicals, please dispose in accordance with the product directions. For more details visit the Recycling Near You website.
NEVER bin batteries, e-cigarettes or vapes! DO NOT throw your old batteries into your household bin as the chemicals leak and contaminate our waste streams, pollute the environment and cause catastrophic fires.
Tape them at both terminals and drop them at participating retail outlets.
