How to Dispose of Common Items
Read the below list for useful information on the proper disposal methods for the following common materials.
If you can't find what you're looking for, please contact us.
| Item | Disposal Method | |
| A | Aerosol cans (empty) | Recycle bin (yellow lid) |
| Aluminium baking trays | Recycle bin (yellow lid) | |
| Aluminium foil | Recycle bin (yellow lid) (clean, and rolled or scrunched into a loose ball) | |
| Aluminium cans | Recycle bin (yellow lid) | |
| Animal droppings | Compost bin (green lid) | |
| Asbestos | Contact the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) | |
| B | Batteries (car) | Shepparton or Ardmona Resource Recovery Centres |
| Batteries (mobile phone) | Read our page about mobile phones | |
| Household batteries | Read our page about batteries | |
| Berry and vegetable punnets (for example: strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes) | Recycle bin (yellow lid) | |
| Bikes | Resource Recovery Centres | |
| Bricks | Shepparton Resource Recovery Centre | |
| C | Cardboard (including milk and juice cartons) | Recycle bin (yellow lid) |
| Carpet and carpet underlays | Shepparton Resource Recovery Centre | |
| CDs & DVDs | Please post to: Gram Destruction Factory 4/46 Allied Drive TULLAMARINE VIC 3043 |
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| Chemicals, cleaning products and their containers | Read our page about chemicals | |
| Ceramics and porcelain | Landfill bin (red lid) | |
| Clothing | Old clothes in good condition can be donated to a local charitable organisation or second-hand store, or otherwise to an organisation that makes rags. If necessary, they can also be placed in your landfill bin (red lid). | |
| Computers | Resource Recovery Centres | |
| Concrete | Shepparton Resource Recovery Centre | |
| Cooking oil | Not accepted at Resource Recovery Centres | |
| D | Detergent cartons | Recycle bin (yellow lid) |
| E | Electrical appliances | Resource Recovery Centres |
| F | Furniture | Resource Recovery Centres |
| Fabric | Can be donated to an organisation that makes rags. If necessary, they can also be placed in your landfill bin (red lid). | |
| Fluorescent lights | Shepparton Resource Recovery Centre | |
| Food scraps | Compost bin (green lid) | |
| G | Gas cylinders | Take to a business that refills gas cylinders. |
| Garden and lawn clippings | Compost bin (green lid) | |
| Glass bottles and jars (excluding glass from windows, drinking glasses and kitchenware) | Recycle bin (yellow lid) | |
| Glass from windows, drinking glasses and kitchenware | Landfill bin (red lid) | |
| H | Herbicides | Read our page about chemicals |
| Hair clippings | Compost bin (green lid) | |
| I | Ice cream containers | Recycle bin (yellow lid) |
| J | Juice cartons / bottles | Recycle bin (yellow lid) |
| K | Kitty litter | Landfill bin (red lid) |
| L | Lawn mowers | Resource Recovery Centres |
| Light bulbs | Standard incandescent / tungsten / halogen light bulbs can be placed in your landfill bin (red lid). Fluorescent lights can be recycled at Shepparton Resource Recovery Centre. | |
| M | Milk cartons / bottles | Recycle bin (yellow lid) |
| Mattresses | Resource Recovery Centres | |
| Magazines | Recycle bin (yellow lid) | |
| Marine flares | Take back to the supplier (Hazardous waste) | |
| Mobile phones | Read our page about mobile phones | |
| Motor oil | Shepparton or Ardmona Resource Recovery Centres. All oil containers are to be no larger than 20 litres. | |
| N | Nappies | Landfill bin (red lid) |
| Nespresso coffee pods | Drop off at collection point: Riverside Gardens Garden Centre 7715 Goulburn Valley Hwy, Kialla, 3631 | |
| Newspapers | Recycle bin (yellow lid) | |
| O | Motor oil, oil filters and containers | Shepparton or Ardmona Resource Recovery Centres. All oil containers are to be no larger than 20 litres. |
| Ovenware and Pyrex | Landfill bin (red lid) | |
| P | Paint tins (empty and dry) | Shepparton Resource Recovery Centre, or return to supplier |
| Paper | Recycle bin (yellow lid) | |
| Pesticides | Read our page about chemicals | |
| Petroleum products (oil) | Shepparton or Ardmona Resource Recovery Centres. All oil containers are to be no larger than 20 litres. | |
| Phone books | Recycle bin (yellow lid) | |
| Soft plastics (for example: plastic shopping bags, cling wrap, bread bags, confectionery wrappers, chip packets) | Landfill bin (red lid) | |
| Plastic bottles / containers (plastics numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7) | Recycle bin (yellow lid) | |
| Polystyrene boxes and packaging | Shepparton Resource Recovery Centre, Smaller items should be placed in your landfill bin (red lid). | |
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| R | Rags (unwanted sheets, towels and clothing) | Can be donated to an organisation that makes rags. If necessary, they can also be placed in your landfill bin (red lid). |
| S | Scrap metal | Resource Recovery Centres |
| Scrap rubber | Landfill bin (red lid) | |
| Shampoo bottles | Recycle bin (yellow lid) | |
| Silage wrap | Resource Recovery Centres | |
| Smoke detectors | Landfill bin (red lid) | |
| Soft-drink bottles | Recycle bin (yellow lid) | |
| Soil (less than 3 cubic metres) | Resource Recovery Centres | |
| Steel cans | Recycle bin (yellow lid) | |
| T | Televisions | Resource Recovery Centres |
| Tyres | Resource Recovery Centres | |
| Tyre tubes | Resource Recovery Centres | |
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| V | ||
| W | (Noxious) weeds | Compost bin (green lid) |
| White goods | Resource Recovery Centres | |
| Window glass | Landfill bin (red lid) | |
| Wood | Resource Recovery Centres | |
| X | X-rays | Landfill bin (red lid) |
| Y | ||
| Z |