Recycling Centres in Australia ♻️

Recycling Centre Australia ♻️: there is an old saying in management that “if you can not measure it, you can not improve on it”. Apparently, the famous scientist Lord Kelvin stated this. For more useful information, see an interesting article in Forbes magazine that disputes this claim.

As Waster talks to companies about improving their environmental and recycling performance and reducing their costs, we started thinking: how is Australia doing as a nation regarding recycling, and can we do much better?

So we made this blog to help households and commercials alike become more aware. Through this blog, Waster aims to educate people more on the importance of recycling centres in Australia. We also aim to share with you the recycling centres here in Australia.

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Knowing what a recycling centre is

First and foremost, you have to know what a recycling centre is or what it does to better comprehend this blog. Essentially, recycling centres mainly provides a way to dispose of recyclable waste. Additionally, and most importantly, they can help divert waste from going into landfills.

Depending on the recycling centre, it can accept different types of waste. Usually, they accept waste coming from small and medium businesses. But others also accept both household and commercial business waste.

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Recycling centre Australia: are we doing as well as other countries?

If there is one feature that Aussies are known for internationally, it is being competitive and good sports. So let us take a look at how we are doing in regards to recycling performance vs other developed countries.

Obviously, Australia is a bit different in many ways due to geography, isolation, etc. Is that enough to affect our recycling centres here – either negatively or positively?

According to Planet Ark, a recycling agency: “Overall, 51% of household waste gets recycled in Australia, relatively on par with recycling rates in northern European countries and exceeding the mean recycling rate of all 28 countries in the EU of 42%. This is quite an achievement for Australia considering the unique landscape and dispersed population that our waste services need to navigate.”

See our blog on whether photographs can be recycled.

“Electronic waste is increasing at three times the rate of other types of waste in Australia. Although voluntary industry programs like ‘Cartridges 4 Planet Ark’ and MobileMuster have provided recycling options for many years it wasn’t until 2012 that national legislation meant that manufacturers and importers of TVs and computers needed to provide free recycling services to households and small businesses. In South Korea, a similar scheme began in 1992.”

To add:

“In other areas like battery recycling, Australia is still in its infancy. In the European Union, where battery recycling is mandatory, there are hundreds of thousands of collection points and initiatives designed to develop positive attitudes towards recycling in children and families.”

Are we doing good enough?

In many ways, it looks like we are doing pretty well by international standards. It is getting easier to recycle more and more items. Check out our options for cardboard recycling and also recycling boxes for items like coffee pods, rubber gloves, cigarettes etc or how an MRF works in our resource recovery centre blog. See our blog on national resource recovery.

Check out our blog on how robots could soon be working in a recycling plant near you!

Recycling centres in Australia near me

Are there any resource recovery facility near you? Find out here in this section.

We will state some examples of recycling centres in Australia you should know:

Suez Hampton recycling centre

Address:
274 Hallam Road, Hampton Park VIC 3976

Phone:
Outlook Transfer Station (public drop-off): 03 9799 6277
General Enquiries: 13 13 35
SUEZ 24/7 Environment Report Hotline:  1800 ENV REP (1800 368 737)

Accepted Waste Types:

Suez Artarmon recycling centre

Address:
12 Lanceley Place, Artarmon NSW 2064

Phone:
Artarmon Enquiries: 1300 651 116
General Enquiries: 13 13 35

Accepted Waste Types:

Suez Auburn recycling centre

Address:
Old Hill Link, Homebush Bay, Sydney Olympic Park, NSW 2127

Phone:
Auburn Enquiries: 1300 651 116
General Enquiries: 13 13 35

Accepted Waste Types:

Suez Belrose recycling centre

Address:
Crozier Road, Belrose NSW 2085

Phone:
Belrose: 1300 651 116
General Enquiries: 13 13 35

Accepted Waste Types:

Suez Rockdale recycling centre

Address: 
5 Lindsay Street, Rockdale NSW 2216

Phone:
General Enquiries: 13 13 35

Accepted Waste Types:

Suez Ryde recycling centre

Address: 
145 Wicks Road, North Ryde NSW 2113

Phone:
Ryde Enquiries: 1300 651 116
General Enquiries: 13 13 35

Suez Seven Hills recycling centre

Address: 
29 Powers Road, Seven Hills NSW 2147

Phone:
Seven Hills Enquiries: 1300 651 116
General Enquiries: 13 13 35

Accepted Waste Types:

See more on western Sydney waste disposal here.

Suez Spring Farm recycling centre

Address:

20 Barrow Rd, Spring Farm 2570

Phone:

General Enquiries: 13 13 35

Suez Wetherill recycling centre

Address: 

20 Davis Road, Wetherill Park NSW 2164

Phone:
Wetherill Enquiries: (02) 9609 3377
General Enquiries: 1300 651 116

Accepted Waste Types:

Suez Eastern Creek recycling centre

Address:

Wallgrove Road, Eastern Creek NSW 2766

Phone:

General Enquiries: 13 13 35

What goes in	What comes out
Household waste, including general waste and organics	High-quality compost Ferrous and non-ferrous metals Building materials Process Engineered Fuel Rehabilitated soil

What goes in	What comes out
Garden waste, such as lawn clippings, leaves and branches Sand and timber (VENM)	High-quality compost products Mulch products Biofuels

Suez Lucas Heights recycling centre

Address: 
Little Forest Rd Road, Lucas Heights NSW 2234

Phone:
General Enquiries: 13 13 35

Accepted Waste Types:

Another council tip in Australia is located in Leichhardt. Additional details are as follows:

“Council operates a weekend transfer station for the disposal of waste and recycling. It is open Saturday and Sunday for Inner West Council residents. Proof of residence is required.

Address: 50 – 54 Moore Street, Leichhardt
Opening Hours: Saturday and Sunday 7:45am to 11:30am and 1pm to 3:45pm”

Accepted Waste Types:

• General hard waste (other than what is placed in your normal residential garbage collection), e.g. broken or damaged furniture, toys, etc.
• Metal
• Paper and cardboard
• Bottles and other recycling accepted in the normal recycling collections
• Garden organics / green waste
• Clothes for charity bin
• TVs/Computers – Broken Televisions, Computers, Computer hard drives, Computer monitors, Printers, Scanners, Keyboard, Mouse

Other recycling centres to take note of

Aside from the above mentioned, you can find other recycling centres near you. Examples include Tomra, Balcatta, Frankston, and Fremantle recycling centres.