Recycling Service


Recycling Service 1In October 1993, The Hills Shire Council introduced the first wheelie bin recycling service in NSW. Residents embraced the service with enthusiasm.

Today, negotiations with producers of goods and packaging are taking place under a voluntary scheme called the National Packaging Covenant to establish a framework for the effective life cycle management of consumer packaging and paper products. The National Packaging Covenant aims to create choice for consumers who wish to buy recyclable products and products made from recyclable materials. We can recycle more and stop non-recyclable items entering the recycling bin!

Please take care: Plastic bags are not recyclable through the household recycling service. Please DO NOT place recyclables inside a plastic bag or place plastic bags in the recycling bin. Check to see if the local supermarket recycles plastic bags or alternatively, re-use them or dispose of them in the garbage bin.


Recycling Service 2Acceptable Items

  • Papers, cardboard, newspapers, magazines, telephone books, cereal boxes, envelopes, junk mail, pizza boxes (food removed)
  • Glass bottles and jars (remove lids and place lids in garbage bin)
  • All steel/tin cans including pet food
  • Empty aluminium cans
  • Empty aerosol cans
  • All plastic containers including tubs, bottles and jars. No lids, no plastic bags, strapping or shrink wrap
  • Milk and juice cartons

  

Recycling Service 3

 Non Acceptable Items

  • Waxed cardboard (old fruit boxes)
  • Ceramic plates, drinking glass, pyrex, window glass, any broken glass, crockery
  • Polystyrene, bubble wrap, plastic bags marked or unmarked with a triangle
  • Meat trays, disposable nappies, clothing, shoes


Important message: Council will be monitoring the recycling service. Penalties may apply for contamination offences. Make sure you DO THE RIGHT BIN.  

  

 

 Where Does It All Go?

Recycling Bin 

1.   Recyclable items only are placed in the yellow lid bin for collection at the kerbside.

 

Visy Recycling - Angle Sort

 

 

2.  Recycling items are taken to a Visy Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) where they are sorted.

 

 

  

 

3.   Did you know that many of the recyclables collected are hand sorted? Please do not place recycling in plastic bags or include hazardous or dangerous items to be recycled. Please consider the workers safety.

 

  

 

 

4.   Once sorted the items are baled and sold. They will be shredded, pulped or melted before being turned into new products.

 

 

 

 

5.  Great jackets are just one example of products that can be made from recycled plastic bottles.

 

 

Plastic Bags Are Our Biggest ProblemDucks

Plastic Bags are not recyclable through the household recycling service. Please do not place recyclables inside a plastic bag or place plastic bags in the recycling bin or the garden organics bin.

An average of half a million shopping bags are collected every year on Clean Up Australia Day. Plastic shopping bags also appeared in the Top Ten Rubbish Items in the 2006 Clean Up Australia Rubbish Report.

Saying 'No' to plastic bags is easy. When shopping, take reusable alternatives like "green bags", calico bags, string bags, baskets or boxes with you. Find a local supermarket that offers plastic bag recycling the next time you go shopping.

Our Shire's Streams and Wasterways

Sea birds die every year around the world as a result on plastic litter. When the animal dies and decays the plastic is free again to repeat the deadly cycle.