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How do I use the Yellow Recycle Bin?

Invercargill and Bluff urban properties have been assigned a 240-litre yellow bin for the fortnightly kerbside collection of recycling.

The collection vehicle extends is mechanical arm to empty the yellow bin into truck.
The collection vehicle extends its mechanical arm to
empty the yellow bin into the truck

The yellow recycle bin is for the disposal of recycling.  Simply place clean recyclable items into the yellow recycle bin and put out on the kerbside by 7.30 am on its collection day.  Check your collection calendar for the dates to put it out (the recycle bin is emptied every fortnight) or click here to find out your next yellow collection day.

 

What goes in the yellow recycle bin?

The yellow recycling bin is for the disposal of:

  • Paper
  • Cardboard
  • Clean plastics - bags, bottles, containers, lids, packaging and trays
  • White polystyrene
  • Aluminium, tin and steel cans
  • Glass bottles and jars
A more detailed list: newspapers and magazines, clean food tins, glass bottles and jars, cereal boxes, cardboard, packaging, telephone directories, hard covered books, envelopes and junk mail, yoghurt containers, ice cream containers, tetrapaks, egg cartons, shampoo and conditioner plastic bottles, plastic water bottles, aerosol cans, plastic milk and soda bottles, aluminium cans, bubble wrap, laundry plastic bottles, plastic cups, plastic bags, clean foil trays, clean aluminium pots, steel cans, grain/coal bags, 20 litre plastic containers.

 

What CANNOT go in the yellow recycling bin?

Keep these items OUT of your yellow bin:

 

What happens to the recycling? 

The yellow recycle bins are emptied into the collection truck which delivers it to the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Invercargill.  The MRF is owned and operated by Southland disAbility Enterprises.  At the MRF the material is sorted by a series of conveyor belts, air machines and by hand.  After the product is categorised it is baled.  The bales are loaded into shipping containers and transported to various national and international manufacturers who process the material into new products.  

Revenue from the sale of the recycled material helps to reduce the cost of the new service.

 

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