Book a doorstep recycling collection for tricky household items

• Small electronics like old phones, cords, laptops, tablets, game consoles, kettles, toasters, remotes, headphones and toys. Delete data from old phones, laptops and tablets.
• Clothes in good condition including shoes, belts and handbags.
• Misfits like household batteries, polystyrene, light bulbs, printer cartridges, X-ray films, expired or unwanted medicine, takeaway coffee cups, and aluminium coffee pods. Separate lids from takeaway coffee cups, stack them and place lids and cups in separate plastic bags. Put aluminium coffee pods inside a tightly sealed plastic bag to stop leaks.

View the full list of items that can be collected.

• Large items: furniture, whitegoods, mattresses and large electronics. Instead book a free pick-up for bulky items.
• Household chemicals: oils, flammable liquids, poisons, pesticides, household and pool cleaners, motor oil, cooking oil. These can be recycled at a Household Chemical CleanOut collection.
• Large batteries: car batteries, power tool batteries, e-bike batteries. See our battery guide for where to recycle them.
• Soft plastics: plastic bags, bread bags, wrappers, chip packets or bubble wrap. Put them in your red lid bin.
• Gas bottles or fire extinguishers.
• Fluorescent lights.
• Underwear in any condition is not accepted.
• Shoes in bad or unwearable condition.
• Pillows or doonas.
• Items that can go in your recycling bins at home: bottles, plastic containers, glass, cardboard, foil and cans. Put them in your yellow lid bin.