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Radios

Receipts (paper)

Records (vinyl)

  • Reuse by selling online, giving away or donating to your local charity or op-shop
  • Dispose of in your household waste bin

Remotes

Reusable bags (plastic)

  • 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. 

Rice and pasta

Rubber bands

Salad and dressing

Sanitary products

  • Avoid waste by using reusable options eg. cups, period pants and washable pads
  • Dispose of in your household waste bin

Satellite navigation systems (GPS)

Sawdust

Seafood (fish, prawns, etc.) (no oyster shells or cooked bones)

Note: cooked bones and oyster shells need to be disposed of in your household waste bin

Shelving units (metal frame)

Shoes

  • Reduce waste by using conditioner/weather protectant to increase the life of your shoes
  • Reuse by selling online, giving away or donating to your local charity or op-shop
  • Dispose of in your household waste bin

Shredded paper

Smoke alarms

Soft/flexible plastics (bags and wrappings)

  • 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. 

Solar panels and energy storage systems

Spoiled/off food

Sporting goods

Steel (e.g. food cans)

Steel wool

Sticks/twigs

Stone fruit seed/stone

Straw (hay)

Straws (plastic, disposable)

  • Avoid waste by carrying a metal or bamboo reuseable straw and declining a plastic straw
  • Dispose of in your household waste bin 

Swimming pool salt bags (empty)

Note: These are not accepted in your recycling bin.

Syringes

Note: never put syringes in any council bins.

Your A to Z guide to Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO), recycling and waste