Check what I can take to a Recycling and Waste Centre

Recycling

• RecycleWorld donations
  Reusable household items
• Household recycling
• Cardboard
  Including books without plastic
• Clothing and textiles
• E-waste
  Including computers and parts, small appliances, televisions. 
  Remove any batteries prior to drop-off and recycle separately through B-cycle.
• Scrap metal
  Appliances including fridges, washing machines etc, caravans, exercise equipment, fencing, boats, trailers, lawn mowers (drained of fuel), power tools (batteries removed), vehicles including car bodies, motorbikes, quad bike and ride-on mowers (drained of engine oil, fuel and fluids). Complete a vehicle disposal declaration form (PDF 163KB).

From 6 October 2026, residential fees apply after 12 visits

Green waste including:

• Grass clippings and hedge trimmings
• Logs (max 4m length) and stumps (max 2m diameter x 1.5m height)
• Palm fronds and branches
• Turf (minimal soil attached)

Must be free from bags, packaging, plastic, wire, ropes and garbage.

General waste (landfill or mixed waste)

From 6 October 2026, residential fees apply after 12 visits

General waste that can't fit in your red lid bin

• Bean bags (place on top of your load and notify attendant)
• Boats (non-metal, <4m long or broken into pieces and hand-unloaded)
• Carpet and carpet underlay
• Clothing and textiles (unusable)
• Dead animals (double wrap and notify attendant)
• Furniture
• Glass window panes
• Insulation (small quantities)
• Paint (solid only, liquid paint to hazardous waste)
• Polystyrene (bag small pieces)
• Plastics (non-recyclable such as soft plastics, plastic wrapping, rigid plastics like laundry baskets, tubs, buckets, crates and chairs)
• Plastic water tanks
• Pool filter glass / sand
• Solar Panels

Hazardous waste

• Chemicals (including pesticides and cleaning chemicals) - liquids must be in a sealed container
• Fire extinguishers
• Fluorescent lights
• Fuel - must be in a sealed container
• Mercury - must be a small quantity in a glass jar, lid taped shut and labelled
• Mothballs
• Paint - liquid and spray paint cans
• Smoke alarms - up to 10
• Gas bottles (LPG BBQ, butane and refill gas bottles) - must be empty
• Cooking oil (vegetable) - decant in specified area on site
• Motor oil (including hydraulic, gear and machine oil) - decant in specified area on site
• Oil containers - empty
• Vehicle batteries (lead acid car batteries) - no lithium-ion batteries accepted
• Sharps (including hypodermic needles and syringes)
• Asbestos (including suspected asbestos and stone benchtops) - under 10m² or 175kg

  Refer to Asbestos and fibro-cement sheeting for acceptance criteria and wrapping. 

Residents can bring approximately 20L or 20kg of hazardous waste

For safe disposal, ensure items are in their original container or an approved safe container with lid/cap, containers are not broken, leaking or unsealed, items are in the containers they will be disposed of in, they can’t be emptied on site.  

Fees apply for most items

• Recycling
  Free: Cardboard, scrap metal, e-waste, co-mingled recycling
  Agricultural and veterinary product chemical drums - A declaration form must be completed. Advise gatehouse on arrival.
  Soil - clean and uncontaminated <1m³
  Timber - clean construction timber
  Tyres
• Green waste
• Landfill (mixed waste) 
  Mattresses
  Polystyrene/EPS
  Timber - contaminated
  Not accepted: pool filter glass, sand, dead animals and boats
• Hazardous waste
  Asbestos & suspected asbestos (limits and disposal requirements apply)
  Free: Oil (up to 20 litres), Lead acid car batteries, Paint and paint packaging (disposal limits apply)
  No other hazardous waste accepted

• Household recycling
• Cardboard 
  Including books without plastic 
• E-waste
  Including computers and parts, small appliances, televisions.
  Remove any batteries prior to drop-off and recycle separately through B-cycle.
• Scrap metal
  Including appliances including fridges, washing machines etc, caravans, exercise equipment, fencing, boats, trailers, lawn mowers (drained of fuel), power tools (batteries removed), vehicles including car bodies, motorbikes, quad bike and ride-on mowers (drained of engine oil, fuel and fluids). Complete a vehicle disposal declaration form (PDF 163KB).
• Tyres and tyre rims
  Commercial fees apply for more than 4 tyres or tyres larger than SUV/4WD.

Green waste including:

• Grass clippings and hedge trimmings
• Logs (max 4m length) and stumps (max 2m diameter x 1.5m height)
• Palm fronds and branches
• Turf (minimal soil attached)

Must be free from bags, packaging, plastic, wire, ropes and garbage.

General waste

General waste that can't fit in your red lid bin

• Bean bags (place on top of your load and notify attendant)
• Boats (non-metal, <4m long or broken into pieces and hand-unloaded)
• Carpet and carpet underlay
• Clothing and textiles (unusable)
• Dead animals (double wrap and notify attendant)
• Furniture
• Glass window panes
• Insulation (small quantities)
• Mattresses
• Paint (solid only, liquid paint to hazardous waste)
• Polystyrene (bag small pieces)
• Plastics (non-recyclable such as soft plastics, plastic wrapping, rigid plastics like laundry baskets, tubs, buckets, crates and chairs)
• Plastic water tanks
• Pool filter glass / sand
• Solar Panels

• Timber - all types

Hazardous waste

• Gas bottles (LPG BBQ, butane and refill gas bottles) - must be empty
• Motor oil (including hydraulic, gear and machine oil) - decant in specified area on site
• Vehicle batteries (lead acid) - no lithium-ion batteries accepted
• Asbestos including suspected asbestos and stone benchtops - must be under 10m² or 175kg
  Refer to Asbestos and fibro-cement sheeting for acceptance criteria and wrapping.

Residents can bring approximately 20L or 20kg of hazardous waste

For safe disposal, ensure items are in their original container or an approved safe container with lid/cap, containers are not broken, leaking or unsealed, items are in the containers they will be disposed of in, they can’t be emptied on site.

Take more hazardous waste items to Redland Bay

Fees apply

• Recycling
  Free: Scrap metal, Co-mingled recycling 
  Cardboard
  Timber - clean segregated logs (max 4m length) and stumps (max 2m diameter x 1.5m height)
  Tyres
  Bricks and concrete from island based commercial operators can be taken to Birkdale Recycling and Waste Centre for free on presentation of barge booking from day of disposal. Subject to change and to Council discretion. 
• Green waste
• Landfill (mixed waste)*
  *Only in vehicles with a Gross Combined Vehicle Mass (GCVM) less than 4.5 tonnes
  Mattresses
  Not accepted: pool filter glass, sand, dead animals and boats
• Hazardous waste
  Free: Lead acid car batteries 
  Asbestos including suspected asbestos and stone benchtops - under 10m² or 175kg
  Refer to Asbestos and fibro-cement sheeting for acceptance criteria and wrapping.

• Household recycling
• Scrap metal
  Including appliances including fridges, washing machines etc, caravans, exercise equipment, fencing, boats, trailers, lawn mowers (drained of fuel), power tools (batteries removed), vehicles including car bodies, motorbikes, quad bike and ride-on mowers (drained of engine oil, fuel and fluids). Complete a vehicle disposal declaration form (PDF 163KB).

Green waste including:

• Grass clippings and hedge trimmings
• Logs (max 4m length) and stumps (max 2m diameter x 1.5m height)
• Palm fronds and branches
• Turf (minimal soil attached)

Must be free from bags, packaging, plastic, wire, ropes and garbage.

General waste

General waste that can't fit in your red lid bin

• Bean bags (place on top of your load and notify attendant)
• Boats (non-metal, <4m long or broken into pieces and hand-unloaded)
• Carpet and carpet underlay
• Clothing and textiles (unusable)
• Dead animals (double wrap and notify attendant)
• Furniture
• Glass window panes
• Insulation (small quantities)
• Mattresses
• Paint (solid only, liquid paint to hazardous waste)
• Polystyrene (bag small pieces)
• Plastics (non-recyclable such as soft plastics, plastic wrapping, rigid plastics like laundry baskets, tubs, buckets, crates and chairs)
• Plastic water tanks
• Pool filter glass / sand
• Solar Panels

• Timber - all types

• Recycling 
  Free: Scrap metal
  Bricks and concrete from island based commercial operators can be taken to Birkdale Recycling and Waste Centre for free on presentation of barge booking from day of disposal. Subject to change and to Council discretion.

• Scrap metal
  Including appliances including fridges, washing machines etc, caravans, exercise equipment, fencing, boats, trailers, lawn mowers (drained of fuel), power tools (batteries removed), vehicles including car bodies, motorbiked, quad bike and ride-on mowers (drained of engine oil, fuel and fluids). Complete a vehicle disposal declaration form (PDF 163KB).

Green waste including:

• Grass clippings and hedge trimmings
• Logs (max 4m length) and stumps (max 2m diameter x 1.5m height)
• Palm fronds and branches
• Turf (minimal soil attached

Must be free from bags, packaging, plastic, wire, ropes and garbage.

General waste

General waste that can't fit in your red lid bin

• Bean bags (place on top of your load and notify attendant)
• Boats (non-metal, <4m long or broken into pieces and hand-unloaded)
• Carpet and carpet underlay
• Clothing and textiles (unusable)
• Dead animals (double wrap and notify attendant)
• Glass window panes
• Insulation (small quantities)
• Mattresses
• Paint (solid only, liquid paint to hazardous waste)
• Polystyrene (bag small pieces)
• Plastics (non-recyclable such as soft plastics, plastic wrapping, rigid plastics like laundry baskets, tubs, buckets, crates and chairs)
• Plastic water tanks
• Pool filter glass / sand
• Solar Panels

• Timber - all types

• Recycling
  Free: Scrap metal
  Bricks and concrete from island based commercial operators can be taken to Birkdale Recycling and Waste Centre for free on presentation of barge booking from day of disposal. Subject to change and to Council discretion.

• Household recycling
• Cardboard
  Including books without plastic
• E-waste
  Including computers and parts, small appliances, televisions.
  Remove any batteries prior to drop-off and recycle separately through B-cycle.
• Scrap metal
  Including appliances including fridges, washing machines etc, caravans, exercise equipment, fencing, boats, trailers, lawn mowers (drained of fuel), power tools (batteries removed), vehicles including car bodies, motorbiked, quad bike and ride-on mowers (drained of engine oil, fuel and fluids). Complete a vehicle disposal declaration form (PDF 163KB).
• Tyres and tyre rims
  Commercial fees apply for more than 4 tyres or tyres larger than SUV/4WD

Green waste including:

• Grass clippings and hedge trimmings
• Logs (max 4m length) and stumps (max 2m diameter x 1.5m height)
• Palm fronds and branches
• Turf (minimal soil attached)

Must be free from bags, packaging, plastic, wire, ropes and garbage.

General waste

General waste that can't fit in your red lid bin

• Bean bags (place on top of your load and notify attendant)
• Boats (non-metal, <4m long or broken into pieces and hand-unloaded)
• Carpet and carpet underlay
• Clothing and textiles (unusable)
• Dead animals (double wrap and notify attendant)
• Glass window panes
• Insulation (small quantities)
• Mattresses
• Paint (solid only, liquid paint to hazardous waste)
• Polystyrene (bag small pieces)
• Plastics (non-recyclable such as soft plastics, plastic wrapping, rigid plastics like laundry baskets, tubs, buckets, crates and chairs)
• Plastic water tanks
• Pool filter glass / sand
• Solar Panels

• Timber - all types

Hazardous waste

• Gas bottles (LPG BBQ, butane and refill gas bottles) - must be empty
• Motor oil (including hydraulic, gear and machine oil) - decant in specified area on site
• Vehicle batteries (lead acid) - no lithium-ion batteries accepted
• Asbestos including suspected asbestos and stone benchtops - must be under 10m² or 175kg
  Refer to Asbestos and fibro-cement sheeting for acceptance criteria and wrapping.

Residents can bring approximately 20L or 20kg of hazardous waste

For safe disposal, ensure items are in their original container or an approved safe container with lid/cap, containers are not broken, leaking or unsealed, items are in the containers they will be disposed of in, they can’t be emptied on site.

Take more hazardous waste items to Redland Bay

Fees apply 

• Recycling
  Free: Scrap metal, Co-mingled recycling 
  Cardboard
  Timber - clean and segregated logs (max 4m length) and stumps (max 2m diameter x 1.5m height)
  Tyres
  Bricks and concrete from island based commercial operators can be taken to Birkdale Recycling and Waste Centre for free on presentation of barge booking from day of disposal. Subject to change and to Council discretion.
• Green waste
• Landfill (mixed waste)*
  *Only in vehicles with a Gross Combined Vehicle Mass (GCVM) less than 4.5 tonnes
  Mattresses
  Not accepted: pool filter glass, sand, dead animals and boats
• Hazardous waste 
  Free: Lead acid car batteries
  Asbestos including suspected asbestos and stone benchtops - must be under 10m² or 175kg
  Refer to Asbestos and fibro-cement sheeting for acceptance criteria and wrapping.

• Household recycling
• Cardboard
  Including books without plastic
• E-waste
  Including computers and parts, small appliances, televisions.
  Remove any batteries prior to drop-off and recycle separately through B-cycle.
• Scrap metal
  Including appliances including fridges, washing machines etc, caravans, exercise equipment, fencing, boats, trailers, lawn mowers (drained of fuel), power tools (batteries removed), vehicles including car bodies, motorbikes, quad bike and ride-on mowers (drained of engine oil, fuel and fluids). Complete a vehicle disposal declaration form (PDF 163KB).
• Tyres and tyre rims
  Commercial fees apply for more than 4 tyres or tyres larger than SUV/4WD

Green waste including:

• Grass clippings and hedge trimmings
• Logs (max 4m length) and stumps (max 2m diameter x 1.5m height)
• Palm fronds and branches
• Turf (minimal soil attached)

Must be free from bags, packaging, plastic, wire, ropes and garbage.

General waste

General waste that can't fit in your red lid bin

• Bean bags (place on top of your load and notify attendant)
• Boats (non-metal, <4m long or broken into pieces and hand-unloaded)
• Carpet and carpet underlay
• Clothing and textiles (unusable)
• Dead animals (double wrap and notify attendant)
• Glass window panes
• Insulation (small quantities)
• Mattresses
• Paint (solid only, liquid paint to hazardous waste)
• Polystyrene (bag small pieces)
• Plastics (non-recyclable such as soft plastics, plastic wrapping, rigid plastics like laundry baskets, tubs, buckets, crates and chairs)
• Plastic water tanks
• Pool filter glass / sand
• Solar Panels

• Timber - all types (separate from other waste types for timber collection on site)

Hazardous waste

• Gas bottles (LPG BBQ, butane and refill gas bottles) - must be empty
• Cooking oil (vegetable) - decant in specified area on site
• Motor oil (including hydraulic, gear and machine oil) - decant in specified area on site
• Vehicle batteries (lead acid car batteries) - no lithium-ion batteries accepted
• Sharps (including hypodermic needles and syringes)
• Asbestos including suspected asbestos and stone benchtops - must be under 10m² or 175kg
  Refer to Asbestos and fibro-cement sheeting for acceptance criteria and wrapping.

Residents can bring approximately 20L or 20kg of hazardous waste

For safe disposal, ensure items are in their original container or an approved safe container with lid/cap, containers are not broken, leaking or unsealed, items are in the containers they will be disposed of in, they can’t be emptied on site.

Take more hazardous waste items to Redland Bay

Fees apply

• Recycling
  Free: Scrap metal, Co-mingled recycling 
  Cardboard
  Timber - clean segregated logs (max 4m length) and stumps (max 2m diameter x 1.5m height)
  Tyres
  Bricks and concrete from island based commercial operators can be taken to Birkdale Recycling and Waste Centre for free on presentation of barge booking from day of disposal. Subject to change and to Council discretion.
•  Green waste
• Landfill (mixed waste)*
  *Only in vehicles with a Gross Combined Vehicle Mass (GCVM) less than 4.5 tonnes
  Mattresses
  Not accepted: pool filter glass, sand, dead animals and boats
• Hazardous waste
  Free: Lead acid car batteries
  Asbestos including suspected asbestos and stone benchtops - must be under 10m² or 175kg
  Refer to Asbestos and fibro-cement sheeting for acceptance criteria and wrapping.

• Household recycling
• Cardboard
  Including books without plastic
• E-waste
  Including computers and parts, small appliances, televisions.
  Remove any batteries prior to drop-off and recycle separately through B-cycle.
• Scrap metal
  Including appliances including fridges, washing machines etc, caravans, exercise equipment, fencing, boats, trailers, lawn mowers (drained of fuel), power tools (batteries removed), vehicles including car bodies, motorbikes, quad bike and ride-on mowers (drained of engine oil, fuel and fluids). Complete a vehicle disposal declaration form (PDF 163KB).
• Tyres and tyre rims
  Commercial fees apply for more than 4 tyres or tyres larger than SUV/4WD.

Green waste including:

• Grass clippings and hedge trimmings
• Logs (max 4m length) and stumps (max 2m diameter x 1.5m height)
• Palm fronds and branches
• Turf (minimal soil attached)

Must be free from bags, packaging, plastic, wire, ropes and garbage.

General waste

General waste that can't fit in your red lid bin

• Bean bags (place on top of your load and notify attendant)
• Boats (non-metal, <4m long or broken into pieces and hand-unloaded)
• Carpet and carpet underlay
• Clothing and textiles (unusable)
• Dead animals (double wrap and notify attendant)
• Glass window panes
• Insulation (small quantities)
• Mattresses
• Paint (solid only, liquid paint to hazardous waste)
• Polystyrene (bag small pieces)
• Plastics (non-recyclable such as soft plastics, plastic wrapping, rigid plastics like laundry baskets, tubs, buckets, crates and chairs)
• Plastic water tanks
• Pool filter glass / sand
• Solar Panels

• Timber - all types

Hazardous waste

• Gas bottles (LPG BBQ, butane and refill gas bottles) - must be empty
• Motor oil (including hydraulic, gear and machine oil) - decant in specified area on site
• Vehicle batteries (lead acid) - no lithium-ion batteries accepted
• Asbestos including suspected asbestos and stone benchtops - under 10m² or 175kg
  Refer to Asbestos and fibro-cement sheeting for acceptance criteria and wrapping

Residents can bring approximately 20L or 20kg of hazardous waste

For safe disposal, ensure items are in their original container or an approved safe container with lid/cap, containers are not broken, leaking or unsealed, items are in the containers they will be disposed of in, they can’t be emptied on site.

Take more hazardous waste items to Redland Bay

Fees apply

• Recycling
  Free: Scrap metal, Co-mingled recycling 
  Cardboard
  Timber - clean segregated logs (max 4m length) and stumps (max 2m diameter x 1.5m height)
  Tyres
  Bricks and concrete from island based commercial operators can be taken to Birkdale Recycling and Waste Centre for free on presentation of barge booking from day of disposal. Subject to change and to Council discretion.
• Green waste
• Landfill (mixed waste)*
  *Only in vehicles with a Gross Combined Vehicle Mass (GCVM) less than 4.5 tonnes
  Mattresses
  Not accepted: pool filter glass, sand, dead animals and boats
• Hazardous waste
  Free: Lead acid car batteries 
  Asbestos including suspected asbestos and stone benchtops - must be under 10m² or 175kg 
  Refer to Asbestos and fibro-cement sheeting for acceptance criteria and wrapping.

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