Manage your recycling

Batteries don't belong in our bins. Find the best tips for sorting your household batteries for recycling.

Take our quick quiz to find out if you're a recycling whiz.

The yellow recycling bin is to place all your paper, cardboard, bottles and plastics with the numbers 1-7 into so that they can be recycled for other uses.

The Port Macquarie and Kew Domestic Waste Management Facilities accept household waste that cannot be collected kerbside. This includes: paint, batteries, gas bottles, fire extinguishers, oil etc.

This pages contains information on what happens next to recyclable items once they have been dropped off at a waste facility.

REDcycle is a recycling program available at most supermarkets that helps divert soft, flexible plastics from landfill and turns them into a material that can be used to manufacture new products.

From 1 December 2017 residents will be able to take eligible containers to a registered CollectionPoint and receive a 10 cent refund. The Scheme, administered by the NSW EPA is called Return and Earn.

Do you support a state-wide approach to managing waste and recycling? We do! join the campaign to help save on costs, protect our environment and boost our regional economies.