Recycle & Reuse
Everything you need to know about your recycling and reusing old goods.
Chemical recycling process
Ever wondered what happens to the household chemicals you drop off at a Detox Your Home event?
Composting at home
What you don't eat, your garden will.
Fight fast fashion by buying and selling pre-loved clothes
The term ‘waste-wise’ often conjures up images of reusable coffee cups and compost bins, but the clothes you wear are just as much a part of it.
Free drop off year-round
You can drop these items off for free at our resource recovery centres.
Join the ShareWaste community
ShareWaste is a free platform that connects people who wish to recycle their food
scraps and other organics with their neighbours who are already composting,
worm-farming or keep farm animals.
Recycle right this Easter
Easter is just around the corner, but it’s not the time to forget our recycling rules. Use these helpful hints to recycle right at Easter and reduce your waste.
Recycle your mobile phone
On average Australians replace their mobile phones every 18-24 months.
Recycle your old bread tags
Bread tags are hard to avoid, but by simply collecting and
donating them, you can help provide wheelchairs for some of the world’s most
underprivileged people.
Recycling and rubbish
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Recycling expanded polystyrene
Used polystyrene is being turned into new roads and products like picture frames thanks to a local initiative.
Recycling farm chemical containers - drumMUSTER
The drumMUSTER collection points are located at the Drysdale and Geelong
Resource Recovery Centres.
Recycling in the bathroom
From cardboard toilet rolls to rigid plastic shampoo containers, there are so many different bathroom products that can go into your household recycling.
Recycling in the kitchen
These common kitchen items can go in your recycling bin.
Recycling in the laundry
These common laundry items can go in your recycling bin.
Recycling organic waste
Around 50 percent of the rubbish Australians put in the everyday mixed-waste ‘garbage bin’ could be put to better use in the garden as compost and mulch.
Reduce your waste with kids
As an adult you may be good at reducing your own rubbish, but it can seem a bit trickier when it comes to young kids.
Toys and recycling
Is your house full of toys not getting played with? Then it’s time for a toy declutter - and a rethink.
Your garden waste bin
Every year we transform 35,000 tonnes of material from your garden bins into high quality compost, right here in Greater Geelong.
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