Use the alphabetical listing below to help on how to dispose of your unwanted items.
Let us know if we can further refine this list by contacting our Waste Management team on 9840 9333 or email via waste@manningham.vic.gov.au.
How to dispose of your items
A
Aerosol cans
Adhesive strips
Aluminium cans
Aluminium foil
Aluminium tray
Animal droppings
B
Baby food pouches
Baby wipes
Bag ties
Baked goods
Baking paper
Baking paper (waxed coated)
Balloons
Band aids
Baskets
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition.
Bedding
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Beer Bottles
Biscuit trays (plastic)
Blister packs (for medicine/pills)
Books
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Bones (meat)
Bones (seafood)
Boxes (cardboard)
Bread bags
Bread - crusts, stale or mouldy
Bread tags/ties
Bricks or rubble
Brochures
Broken glass
Bubble wrap
Building materials
C
Cable ties
Cakes and pastries
Cake trays (metal)
Carbon paper
Car batteries
Car/auto parts
Carbon paper
Cardboard
Cardboard - greasy, dirty or oily (small pieces)
Cartridges (printer-toner)
Cellophane
Ceramics
- Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
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Cereal boxes
Cereal box (plastic inserts)
Cereals
Chicken - bones, skins and scraps
Chip packets
Chocolate
Chocolate wrappers
Chopsticks - uncoated wooden and bamboo
Christmas tree (artificial)
Christmas tree (real)
Cigarette butts
Cleaning product bottles (empty)
Cleaning rags
Cling wrap
Clothing
- Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Coat hangers (wire/plastic)
Coffee cans/jars
Coffee capsules/pods
Coffee cups (disposable/takeaway)
Cookware (silicone)
Compostable liners (lime green only) with the certified AS 4736 or AS 5810 symbols
Computer paper
Conditioner bottles
Corks (not plastic)
Cosmetic jars
Cotton wool balls/buds
Crockery (broken)
Crockery (intact)
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Curtains
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Cushions
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Cutlery (plastic)
D
Dairy products
Deodorant aerosol (empty)
Deodorant (roll on/stick)
Detergent bottles (plastic)
Dinnerware (single use - plastic)
Dirt or soil
Disposable coffee cups
Disposable nappies
Drink cans
Dummies (silicone)
E
Egg cartons
Electrical appliances
Envelopes
Exercise equipment
Expired food (not in packaging)
Eye glasses
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
F
Fabric
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Face coverings/masks (cloth/disposable)
Feathers
Fencing (wood)
Fire extinguishers
Fish - bones, skin and scraps
Fish and chip paper
Flowers
Fly spray
Food pouches
Foam meat trays
Food cans
Frozen food bags
Fruit net bags (plastic)
Fruit – peels, cores, seeds and scraps
Fruit punnets (plastic)
Furniture
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
G
Garden cuttings
Gas bottles
Glad wrap
Gloves (disposable)
Grains and legumes
Grass clippings
Grease-proof paper
Greeting cards
H
I
Ice cream containers and lids
Icy pole sticks - wooden and bamboo
J
Jars (with lids)
Juice cartons
Junk mail
K
Kitty litter
L
Laminated paper
Laser light sheets
Lunch boxes
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Lead flashing
- Take to a scrap metal dealer.
Always use caution when disposing of lead flashing.
- Lead flashing should not be cut.
- Always use work gloves when touching lead flashing.
- Do not store lead flashing near food.
Leftover food
Light bulbs
Linen
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Lollies
Lolly wrappers
Long-life cartons
M
Magazines
Margarine tubs
Matchboxes
Meat scraps (raw or cooked)
Meat trays (plastic)
Meat trays (polystyrene/foam)
Medicine bottles (empty and rinsed)
Medicines
-
Take to your local pharmacy
Menstrual cups (silicone)
Milk containers (cardboard/glass/plastic)
Mirrors (wrapped)
Mouldy food
N
Nails - human and pet
Napkins (paper)
Nappies (disposable)
Needles (sharps)
Contact us for advice
Newspapers
Newspaper (small amounts)
Nuts and seeds
P
Paint tins (empty)
Pallets (wood/plastic)
Palm fronds
Paper bags
Paper bags (small amounts)
Paper – shredded or dirty/oily (small amounts)
Paper (shredded) small amount contained in envelope or cardboard box
Paper (shredded) large amount
Paper towel rolls (inner)
Paper towel (small amounts)
Perfume bottle
Pet food tins (rinsed)
Pharmaceuticals
-
Take to your local Pharmacy
Phone books
Picture frames
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Pizza boxes (empty)
Placemats
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Plasterboard
Plastic bags
Plastic containers
Plastic strapping
Plastic trays/baskets
Plastic wrappers
Plate glass (wrapped)
Polycarbonate roofing sheets
Pots and pans
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Potting mix bags (empty)
Poultry
Processed foods (such as cake, pastry, chips)
Pyrex ovenwear (broken)
Pyrex ovenwear (intact)
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
R
Razor (disposable)
Receipts
Reusable shopping bags
Rice – cooked or uncooked
Rubber bands
S
Salads and dressing
Sanitary products
Sauces, condiments and relishes
School bags
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Seafood
Seedling containers (free of soil)
Serviettes (paper)
Shampoo bottles
Shoes
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition or
Shredded paper (small amounts)
Silver foil
Skewers - wooden and bamboo
Smoke alarm
Snap lock bags
Soap pump bottles
Soft drink bottles
Soft drink cans
Spectacles
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Spirit bottles
Spoiled food
Sporting goods
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Steel cans
Steel (other than tin and cans)
Straw and hay
Sweet wrappers
Syringes
Contact us for advice
T
Takeaway coffee cups
Take away containers
Take away food (no containers)
Tea leaves - loose
Telephone books
Textiles
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Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Tin cans
Tissues
Toilet paper
Toilet paper rolls
Tools
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Toothbrushes
Toothpaste tubes
Toothpicks - wooden
Toys
-
Donate to your local charities and op shops if in good condition
Tree prunings
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Book a bundled branches collection
Tupperware
Twigs and tree prunings
V
Vacuum cleaner dust
Vegetable punnets (plastic)
Vegetable scraps
Vegetables – peels, cores, seeds and scraps
Video cassette recorders (VCR)
Vitamin bottles (plastic/glass)
W
Waxed paper
Wet wipes
Window glass (wrapped)
Wine bottles
Wrapping paper
Y
Yoghurt
Yoghurt containers
Yoghurt pouches
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Otherwise check out Sustainability Victoria’s Know your recycling for a comprehensive list of how to dispose of items.
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