How to recycle at waste transfer stations
Council’s waste transfer stations actively encourage recycling to prevent unnecessary landfilling of resources. Recycling companies take a number of materials off site from our collection areas.
The table below lists the different materials that can be taken to most of Council’s waste transfer stations for recycling and what they are recycled into.
Only waste loads containing clean segregated materials can be diverted from landfill and recycled.
Recyclable Material |
What it's made into |
| Scrap metal |
Scrap metal is shredded to (including car bodies) remove any impurities such as dirt or paint. The clean steel is then used for building products such as steel beams, plates and tubing. |
| Green waste |
Green waste is shredded and used as a soil conditioner, garden compost/mulch, for erosion control or a renewable fuel source. |
| Gas bottles (liquid propane) |
If the gas bottles are in good condition, they are reconditioned and used again. If not, the metal is scrapped and recycled (see scrap metal above). |
| Lead acid car batteries |
The battery acid is drained and the plastic and lead recovered. The plastic is recycled into new plastic products and the lead is melted into ingots and used to make building materials such as weatherproof roof flashing. |
| Mineral oil |
The waste mineral oil is refined to remove all impurities and then blended to make furnace fuel oil. |
| Tyres |
Tyres are chipped and used to make rubber ‘softfall’ (a soft surface used around playgrounds) or used in asphalt pavements. |
| Cardboard/paper |
The cardboard and paper is pulped and processed into new tetrapack or cardboard packaging such as beer boxes and cardboard displays. |
Waste disposal should be the last option. Since there are so many ways to avoid, reduce, reuse and recycle waste, only a small amount of waste needs to end up as landfill.
Turning waste into energy & waste treatment
Turning waste into energy and waste treatment are two additional processes to recover value from the waste. Waste to energy technologies involve creating energy such as electricity from the waste stream. Redland Water & Waste is currently investigating the viability of creating energy from landfill gas.