Useful Waste & Recycling Website Links
Links to useful recycling websites.
Planet Ark Recycling Near You: This site contains information about the recycling and waste services offered by your council as well as local drop-off options for items including computers, batteries, printer cartridges, mobile phones and many more.
Planet Ark Business Recycling: Use this site to find national and local reuse or recycling options for around 90 different materials, making it easy for small businesses to find the waste services they need.
Chemical CleanOut: A FREE service for the safe disposal of a range of common household chemicals. Check the site for locations close to you.
Return Unwanted Medicine: Through the Return Unwanted Medicines (RUM) Project consumers can return unwanted and out-of-date medicines for their collection and disposal from consumers across Australia to any pharmacy. Over 500 Tonnes of unwanted and out of date medicines are collected every year.
Trolley Tracker: Use Trolley Tracker to report the location of abandoned trolleys so they can be quickly collected and returned to the store where they belong.
Freecycle: A free community website where members give and receive unwanted items.
Ziilch: A reuse and upcycling website. List your unwanted items to give away and receive goods from others for FREE. Members can request items and arrange a mutually convenient time for collection. Ziilch aims to help keep perfectly good stuff out of landfill and off the naturestrip. Consider passing on your item to someone who can use it.
ReUseIt: Alternatively, try a similar website to find new uses for your unwanted items that would otherwise be thrown into the trash.
Managing Waste from Construction Sites: Important information for demolition and excavation companies, builders, contractors, project managers and property developers covering transporting waste to a lawful place; avoiding hefty fines or prosecution and avoid expensive clean-up costs.
Transporting Waste Information – Covering your load: Important information for waste transporters about how to transport waste safely and legally, help protect the environment and ensure the safety of other road users and avoid fines
Cleanaway: Council’s contractor responsible for the Kerbside Bulk Household collections.
EnviroCom: Council’s contractor responsible for providing education to the primary schools in the Hawkesbury.
Sustainable Living Guide: Developed in conjunction with The Natural Strategies Group, this guide is designed to help Hawkesbury residents take action to live more sustainably at home and in the community. The Guide is packed with ideas, tips and inspiration about how small, easy changes can have positive impacts on the environment and your health and wellbeing - and save you money too!
NSW Office of Environment and Heritage: The focus of the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) in managing waste is to provide a clear and consistent regulatory and policy framework that minimises harm to the environment and encourages waste avoidance and resource recovery. This framework uses a mix of legislative, policy, educative and economic tools.
