Recycle Street
Recycle Street makes recycling easier, faster and more convenient. This initiative is a one-stop facility to recycle unwanted items when you visit the recycling centres.
How it works
Ensure you have sorted your loads before arriving at the waste and recycling centre. Drive into the centre and drop off your recyclables at Recycle Street first. Then move on to dispose of any other waste you might have.
This initiative is a self-service ‘street’. There is a colour-coded shopfront for each type of recycled waste material.
Customers using Recycle Street can identify quickly where to place their recycled goods. Each bin is clearly colour coded according to type of material, such as paint, motor oil, car batteries and hazardous chemicals.
Colour coding
Charity bins (beige signage)
| Accepted |
Not accepted |
| Goods that can be resold at local charities |
Goods that are not of resale quality |
Batteries (purple signage)
| Accepted |
Not accepted |
|
Car, motorbike and boat batteries
Household batteries
|
|
Gas bottles (green signage)
| Accepted |
Not accepted |
| Domestic gas bottles up to nine kilograms |
Industrial gas bottles |
Motor oil (orange signage)
| Accepted |
Not accepted |
| Household motor oil only – up to 20 litres accepted. |
Fuel |
Hazardous (black signage)
| Accepted |
Not accepted |
| Household chemicals only – up to 20 litres accepted. Chemicals must be disposed of in containers with secure lids. |
All other types of hazardous materials, e.g. asbestos, explosives |
Paint (pink signage)
| Accepted - Only up to 20 litres |
Not accepted |
| Interior and exterior paint, floor paint |
Aerosol paints |
| Primers, sealers and undercoats |
Anti-fouling coatings |
| Stains and shellacs |
Automotive and industrial paints |
| Varnishes and urethanes |
Paint thinners, mineral spirits or solvents |
e-waste (teal signage)
| Accepted |
Not accepted |
| Television |
Mobile phones |
| Computers and laptops |
Batteries |
| Notebooks and tablets |
DVD players or recorders |
| Monitors |
Radios |
| Speakers |
Cassette players |
| Remote controls |
CD players |
| Printers and scanners |
Game consoles |
| Microwaves |
Fax machines |
| Computer-related accessories |
Cameras or video cameras |
| Computer mice, webcams, keyboards |
Microphones and head phones |
Benefits to the community
Launched on 5 June 2018, World Environment Day, at the Helensvale Waste and Recycling Centre, Recycle Street is a pioneering project. We support it because:
- the layout of the structure makes recycling easier for customers
- customers get clear information on what they can recycle and what they cannot
- more recycling means less items end up at landfill, which extends our current landfill lifespan, thus reducing the financial burden on residents to pay for future landfill siting and construction.