Kerbside Recycling Services in the Wollongong City Council area
Below are the kerbside recycling services provided by your local Council.
Kerbside Recycling Service
Recycling Container:
Recycling bin
Collection Frequency:
Fortnightly
Available to:
All Residential Properties
Materials Collected:
- Glass Bottles and Jars
- Aluminium Cans
- Aluminium Foil
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- Office Paper
- Envelopes Without a Window
- Envelopes With a Window
- Phone Books
- Pizza Boxes (clean)
- Egg Cartons
- Cardboard
- Steel Food Cans
- Steel Paint Cans (empty)
- Steel Aerosol Cans (empty)
- Milk cartons
- Juice cartons
- All plastic bottles and containers - must be rigid plastic bottles and containers
Kerbside On Call Household Cleanup Service includes E-Waste material
Recycling Container:
placed to one side of the Cleanup material - no more than 2m3 in volume
Collection Frequency:
On Call (from resident)
Available to:
All Residential Properties
Materials Collected:
- Computer peripheral
Other information
The following items are NOT collected in your Kerbside Recycling Service(s):
- Plastic Bags
- Bubble Wrap
- Polystyrene Foam
- Ceramics, Pyrex glass, Ovenware
- Cups, plates, wine and drinking glasses
- Mirrors
- Light bulbs
- Garden organic waste
- Pot plant buckets/containers
- Nappies
- Food scraps
- Batteries
- Syringes/Needles
- Rubbish
- Non-Recyclable Plastics
- Building Materials
- Long life cartons or tetra packs (with foil liners)
- Garden hoses
- Compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) or tubes
- Clothes or shoes
- Soil or rocks
- Foam
- Car parts
- Containers or cans containing liquid paints and oils
- Hazardous chemicals
- Computers
- Televisions
- Toys
Recycling Tips
Many rubbish items are still being sent to landfill, even though they could be recycled or reused. 16% of items placed in the garbage are actually recyclable, we can all do more to avoid waste.
Replacement Recycling Container
If you need a replacement kerbside recycling container, please contact Customer Service Centre on 02 4227 7111.















