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Cameras

Cans (steel or aluminium, squashed)

Car batteries

Car/auto parts and tyres

Cardboard (unwaxed)

Cardboard (waxed - e.g. fruit boxes)

Carpet/carpet underlay

Cartridges (printer/toner)

Cassette cover and casing (tape removed)

Cassette tapes

Cat poo (all pet poo)

CDs

  • Reuse by donating to your local charity or op-shop
  • Reuse by stringing up in your garden to deter pests or for craft projects
  • Dispose of in your household waste bin

CD cases (plastic)

CD players

Cellophane

  • Soft plastics can no longer be recycled through REDcycle at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets. If you have space, hold on to your soft plastics until further updates become available. Alternatively, soft plastics can be disposed of in the kerbside waste bin or as waste at the Boroondara Recycling and Waste Centre. 

Ceramics

Cereals and grains

Cereal boxes

Cereal box inner plastic bags

  • Soft plastics can no longer be recycled through REDcycle at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets. If you have space, hold on to your soft plastics until further updates become available. Alternatively, soft plastics can be disposed of in the kerbside waste bin or as waste at the Boroondara Recycling and Waste Centre. 

Chemicals (household)

Chicken (raw or cooked meat and raw bones)

Chicken (cooked bones)

Chip packets (foil-lined plastic)

  • Foil-lined plastic can no longer be recycled through REDcycle at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets. If you have space, hold on to your foil-lined plastics until further updates become available. Alternatively, soft plastics can be disposed of in the kerbside waste bin or as waste at the Boroondara Recycling and Waste Centre. 

Chocolate wrappers (foil-lined plastic)

  • Foil-lined plastic can no longer be recycled through REDcycle at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets. If you have space, hold on to your foil-lined plastics until further updates become available. Alternatively, soft plastics can be disposed of in the kerbside waste bin or as waste at the Boroondara Recycling and Waste Centre. 

Christmas trees (plastic)

  • Avoid by getting crafty and making your own
  • Reuse by packing away carefully and storing safely for next year
  • Reuse by buying a second hand plastic tree or donate yours to a charity shop if you no longer need it
  • If broken, dispose of in your household waste bin, if it doesn't fit, take to Boroondara Recycling and Waste Centre or book a hard waste collection

Christmas trees (real)

  • Avoid waste by making own crafty tree from reused materials (for example, drift wood tree)
  • Reuse by using a live plant or tree in a pot every year
  • Recycle by booking a free Christmas tree collection

Chux wipes

  • Avoid by using reusable cloths instead
  • Reuse until cannot be reused anymore
  • Dispose of in your household waste bin

Cigarette butts

  • Dispose of in your household waste bin
  • Tip: Carry a pocket ashtray to collect your butts and prevent littering

Citrus (juice, pulp and skin)

Cleaning rags  

Cling wrap/cling film/plastic wrap

  • Avoid by using reusable plastic containers with lids or bees wax wraps
  • Cling wrap can no longer be recycled through REDcycle at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets. If you have space, hold on to these until further updates become available. Alternatively, soft plastics can be disposed of in the kerbside waste bin or as waste at the Boroondara Recycling and Waste Centre. 

Clothing (good condition)

Clothing (damaged)

  • Reuse as rags at home
  • Recycle by donating to Southern Cross Recycling
  • Dispose of in your household waste bin

Coat hangers (plastic or metal)

    Coffee cups and lids (biodegradable, compostable and disposable types)

    • Avoid waste by carrying a reusable coffee cup or by dining in
    • Compostable types - recycle in your home compost bin (not FOGO bin)
    • All other types - dispose of in your household waste bin

    Coffee filter papers

    Coffee grounds and beans

    Coffee pods (disposable)

    Coffee pods (compostable)

    • Avoid waste by using ground coffee
    • Avoid waste by using a reusable/refillable metal coffee pod and your choice of ground coffee
    • Recycle in your compost bin, worm farm, Bokashi bin or green cone solar composter
    • Dispose of in your household waste bin

    Compostable plates

    Note: Compostable plates are not accepted in FOGO bins.

    Computers, parts and accessories

    Concrete, bricks, rubble, rocks

    Cooking oil (maximum 20 litres in 5-litre cans)

    Cooking oil and fat on paper towels or newspapers

    Corks (plastic and synthetic wine or bottle corks)

    Cotton buds

    • Avoid waste by using reusable cotton buds
    • Reduce plastic waste by using 100% natural paper cotton buds
    • Dispose of in your household waste bin

    Corks (natural wine or bottle corks)

    Cotton wool

    Crockery 

    Curtain rods (metal)

    Curtains

    Cutlery (plastic)

    • Avoid waste by using reusable cutlery
    • Reuse by washing and reusing until no longer usable
    • Dispose of in your household waste bin

    Cutlery (cornstarch)

    Note: Cutlery made from cornstarch is not accepted in FOGO bins.

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