Your mixed recycling bin
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Your mixed recycling bin is for clean, recyclable items like paper, cardboard, glass, and certain plastics. Help us reduce the contamination rate of recycling bins and reduce how much waste is going to landfill.
Your mixed recycling bin collection
Your mixed recycling bin is collected fortnightly.
Search your address to see your next bin collection
View the yearly Digital Waste Collection Calendar
where you can:
- Add your address and see your yearly waste calendar
- Create a printable pdf
What can go in your mixed recycling bin?
- Aerosol cans (empty)
- Aluminium and steel cans
- Aluminium foil scrunched into a ball larger than a golf ball
- Clean paper and cardboard
- Deodorant cans and bottles (empty)
- Egg cartons
- Magazines
- Newspaper
- Office paper
- Pizza boxes (clean of food and oils)
- Plastics bottles and containers with recycling codes 1,2 and 5
- Shampoo and conditioner bottles (empty)
- Shredded paper (if enclosed in an unwaxed cardboard box or paper bag)
- Telephone books
- Tissue boxes with plastic removed
- Toilet rolls (empty)
- Wrapping paper and gift wrap (no sticky tape)
What can’t go in your mixed recycling bin?
- Bagged mixed recyclables (keep your recyclable items loose)
- Coffee cups
- Glass bottles and jars
- Paper towel and tissues
- Plastics items with recycling codes 3, 4, 6 and 7
- Building waste, including metals and wood
- Soft plastics including plastics bags, plastic food wrappers, plastic wrap and bubble wrap*
*You can register to participate in the Ballarat Soft Plastics Collection Pilot Program
Frequently asked questions
What happens to the recyclable materials once collected?
Recyclable items placed in your yellow lid bin is sent to APR (Australian Paper Recovery), a materials recovery facility in Truganina, where it is sorted and recycled on site or sent to other locations for recycling into new items.
How can recycling help?
By knowing what to recycle we can:
- Avoid recyclable items going to landfill
- Reduce costs to council and ratepayers
- Avoid contamination charges
- Create a more sustainable environment
What are some helpful tips to make recycling more efficient?
Simple habits can make the recycling more efficient and sustainable.
In Ballarat it is best to prepare recyclables by:
- Rinsing recyclable containers
- Breaking up or flattening cardboard boxes.
- Keeping items loose: don’t place your recyclables in plastic bags.
- Only placing plastics from your bathroom, kitchen and laundry in your recycle bin.
You can register to participate in the Ballarat Soft Plastics Collection Pilot Program