Some of our services are closed or have different hours over Easter, from Friday 29 March to Monday 1 April.

Tablets, digital (eg iPads)

Tape covers and casings (cassette/VHS tapes and paper insert removed)

Tapes (cassette and VHS)

Tea bags (100% natural fibres/paper)

  • Reduce waste by using loose-leaf tea and a refillable 'tea swag'
  • Recycle in your home compost bin or worm farm, compost bin, worm farm, Bokashi bin or green cone solar composter.

Note: accepted brands include Clipper, T2, Natures Cuppa, Pukka, Tielka, Eloments, Love Tea, Zoetic Infusions, Lipton Quality Black and Intense traditional tea bags only – not whole Lipton range.

Tea bags (all other brands)

  • Reduce waste by using loose-leaf tea and a refillable 'tea swag'
  • Dispose of in your household waste bin.

Note: Most tea bags cannot go in your FOGO bin as they often contain plastic and synthetic materials.

Tea (loose-leaf)

Tealight candleholders

Dispose of in your household waste bin. Tealight candleholders are too small to be recovered at the recycling facility.

Televisions

Terracotta pots and items

Tetrapaks (eg soy milk, long-life milk or juice cartons)

Textiles

Thermometers

Recycle by dropping off at Ecocycle in Cambellfield or Ringwood.

Thermostats

Thorny offcuts (eg rose bushes)

Tiles

Timber and fencing

  • Reuse for other handy projects (example, building timber furniture) or give away
  • Reuse as firewood (untreated wood only)
  • Dispose of at the Boroondara Recycling and Waste Centre (fees apply)
  • Dispose of timber (up to 12 pieces, neatly stacked, up to 1.5 metres long) by booking a hard waste collection.

Note: fencing and renovation materials are not accepted as part of the hard waste collection.

Tissues

Toilet paper rolls

Toner cartridges

Tools

Toothbrushes and other oral care

Toothpaste tubes

Tools (electronic or battery-operated)

Towels

Toys (plastic, no batteries)

Toys (electronic or battery-operated)

Tree prunings

Tree roots (small – can be lifted by a single person)

Tupperware

Twigs

Recycle in your FOGO bin.

Tyres (bicycle)

Note: It is illegal to put tyres in any household waste bins, street bins or landfill.

Tyres (car and motorbike)

Recycle at the Boroondara Recycling and Waste Centre (fees apply).