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Using the right bin at City offices

Help us achieve 75 percent diversion from landfill by putting your waste in the right bin when at Wurriki Nyal and City depots.
 

Unlike your home green bin, our new food waste bins can take all food scraps and some other compostable items.

Use this bin for:

  • bones
  • cutlery: wooden only
  • chopsticks: wooden only
  • coffee grounds
  • fish and seafood
  • fruit (including peels and pits) and vegetables (make sure any small stickers are removed and placed in the red lid bin)
  • food scraps and leftovers: all food accepted from bread, sandwiches, chips, pizza, salads etc.
  • meat
  • paper soiled with food: non waxed (if the paper has a shiny lining, it likely contains plastic and must go in the red landfill bin)
  • paper towel: clean or soiled with food (no cleaning products or chemicals)
  • pizza boxes
  • salads
  • straws: paper only (put plastic or waxed straws in red landfill bin)
  • tea bags and loose-leaf tea: Lipton black tea from Wurriki Nyal kitchens or other paper based; if you BYO tea bags. make sure they are compostable or 100 per cent paper with no plastic. Some brands like Twinings, Tetley and Bushells use plastics in their tea bags!

No plastics of any kind including items that are lined with plastic, or half-plastic, half-compostable. If it cannot be separated, it must go in the red landfill bin.

Anything that you put in your home recycling bin can go in this bin including:

  • aluminium foil: remove food scraps and crush into a ball
  • bags: paper only (put plastic or cloth bags in red landfill bin)
  • bottles: glass and plastic (put lids in red landfill bin)
  • cans: aluminium and steel
  • cardboard boxes: without plastic or wax lining (put larger cardboard in the paper bin in the print rooms)
  • containers: hard plastics, empty leftover food into food waste bin
  • glass: jars and bottles (put broken drinking glasses in red landfill bin)
  • paper: clean (can also go in the blue paper bins in printing rooms)

No paper towel, paper drink cartons or coffee cups, plastic bags, plastic folders, polystyrene or plastic cutlery. Put these in the red landfill bin.

Use this bin for:

  • coffee cups and the lids: single use
  • cling wrap
  • baking paper (even though it states it is compostable)
  • cutlery: plastic or non-compostable (plastic cutlery is too small to be sorted by recycling processors)
  • drink milk or juice paper cartons (not currently accepted by local recyclers)
  • masks: single use
  • plastic bags
  • polystyrene (can also be recycled at our Geelong or Drysdale transfer stations)
  • soft plastics
  • straws: plastic (put unwaxed paper straws in food waste bin)
  • tetrapaks (not currently accepted by local recyclers)

No batteries or electrical items of any kind - take batteries to customer service and electronics to the e-waste bin in IT (see below). Put food waste in the food waste bin.

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