Recycling tips, videos and guides
Watch our recycle right series and follow the simple tips to help you recycle correctly in your home.
Recycling is a simple way that you can make a difference towards a cleaner, greener and sustainable Sunshine Coast. By using your bins correctly, you can ensure:
- recyclable materials get turned into new items
- less waste goes to landfill
- our staff are safe when handling your waste.
How to use your recycling bin
Place recyclable items in your yellow lid bin loose with no bag.
| Accepted material | Examples |
| Paper/cardboard | Egg cartons, cereal boxes, envelopes, clean pizza boxes, junk mail, milk and juice cartons |
| Aluminium | Soft drink cans, empty aerosol cans, aluminium foil and trays (scrunched into a ball) |
| Steel | Empty food cans, empty aerosol cans (i.e. hairspray or air freshener) |
| Glass | Pasta sauce jars, jam jars, kombucha bottles |
| Plastic (bottles and containers only) | Yogurt tubs, milk bottles, margarine tubs, strawberry punnets, shampoo bottles |
Did you know aluminium cans are 100% recyclable? By recycling one aluminium can, we can save enough energy to power a TV for three hours.
Using your recycling bin makes a big difference. Its saves us time, energy and money to reuse Earth’s resources.
Follow our simple tips below to recycle right at home.
Recycling tips
| Rethink and avoid | While recycling is great, it is not our first choice. It is always best to avoid creating waste in the first place. |
| Keep it clean | Make sure bottles and containers are empty of food and contents before placing in the bin. |
| Keep it simple | Recyclables include items made from paper, cardboard, steel, aluminium, glass and plastic. Packaging items from the kitchen, bathroom and laundry including: Paper: newspaper, envelopes, magazines |
| Keep it safe | Keep hazardous items like batteries out of your kerbside bins. Return them to a drop off point instead. |
| Size does matter | The smallest size of an item for recycling is a yogurt tub. Anything else is too small and will fall through the cracks of the recycling machinery. |
Recycling videos
Recycling guides
For more helpful information and tips on recycling, read council’s recycling fact sheets:
- Sustainable waste management (PDF, 459KB)
- Kerbside recycling (PDF, 403KB)
- Waste and recycling information booklet (PDF, 1MB).