We have 5 waste and recycling facilities. Each provide opportunities for our community to help recycle, recover and reuse waste items.
Separate recyclable, reusable and recoverable items before you start loading your vehicle. Keeping these separate from general waste will make it safer and easier to unload when you get to the site.
If a load is not sorted, it can be difficult for our operators to see how much and what types of materials are in the load. Customers are only charged a fee for waste that they dispose. Dropping off acceptable reusable, recyclable or recoverable items is free. Doing the right thing and sorting your items before you leave home makes it easier to see what will be recycled and what is waste. This allows our operators to charge appropriately and keeps your disposal fees as low as possible. Sorting your load helps the environment and saves you some money!
Sorting your load before you visit will make it easier to pack and safer to unload. Different waste types have designated areas at the site where they need to be unloaded. Batteries, electrical appliances, e-waste, furniture, clothes, cardboard and green waste can all be recycled at our waste and recycling facilities.
When you get to the site the weighbridge attendant will direct you to follow signage to the correct areas for the types of materials you have. Recyclable, reusable and recoverable items can be dropped off in the designated areas. This will be the resource recovery area, scrap metal bay or green waste pad, so pack these items last for easy access.
The general waste transfer station bin should only be used for those items that can’t be reused, recycled or recovered and need disposal.
Don’t forget to restrain and cover the load before leaving home. Pack things tightly, use boxes and bags for small items and use a tarpaulin or cargo net as well as straps to secure the load.
If you are driving a loaded vehicle or towing a loaded trailer, you need to make sure the load is correctly restrained.
If you don't restrain a load, you may cause an accident, injury or death due to:
- objects falling from your vehicle onto other traffic or pedestrians
- uncovered loads falling into your vehicle cabin during emergency braking
- loads moving, which may cause your car to roll over.
When transporting a load, please make sure you:
- restrain the load using an appropriate restraint – webbing straps are more effective than rope
- tie flags to the back of a load if it extends more than 1.2 metres behind a vehicle or trailer, or if the load is not easily visible to a person following behind. The flag must be bright red, red and yellow, or yellow, and at least 450 millimetres by 450 millimetres. At night, a red light or at least two red reflectors must be attached to the back of a load
- cover garden waste with a tarpaulin (tarp)
- restrain tall whitegoods to the headboard to make sure they don’t fall over
- tightly pack and fill spaces between items to make sure the load does not move
- pack small tools into a box
- restrain large tools with straps or a cargo net
- use rubber matting to prevent items such as pipes from slipping
- check the load every time you add or remove an item
- check the load and the tension of ropes and webbing shortly after starting your journey.
You must make sure your load does not:
- protrude from your vehicle, which could injure a person, block the path of drivers or pedestrians, or damage another vehicle
- cover number plates, lights or reflectors
- make your vehicle unstable or unsafe
- have heavy items piled on top of lighter items
- sit on seats in vehicles – we recommend you use cargo barriers.
The load restraint laws apply to all vehicles, regardless of their gross vehicle mass. Consigners, loaders and receivers are responsible for ensuring they meet load restraint requirements.
If you don't secure your load properly, you may get a fine or you could be prosecuted.