NEW CENTRES HELP WITH HOUSEHOLD RECYCLING
Community members are now able to recycle household batteries, mobile phones and electronic accessories, smoke detectors and ink cartridges at drop-off points located inside a number of Council facilities.
The small community recycling centre drop-off stations were installed at the Dubbo and Wellington Customer Experience Centres and the Macquarie Regional Library – Dubbo branch earlier this week
The small recycling centres give residents another option to dispose of selected products in a sustainable fashion.
Items that can be recycled at the centres include:
- Household batteries: AA, AAA, AAAA, A23, C, D, CR123, 9 Volt, power tool batteries - all brands. All terminals of batteries must be taped with clear tape, button batteries must be taped with clear tape on both sides.
- Mobile phones and associated electronic accessories - all brands accepted
- Smoke detectors - battery operated and hard wired style
- Ink cartridges - all brands accepted
Community Recycling Centres remain operational at Whylandra Waste and Recycling Centre in Dubbo and at the Wellington Waste Transfer Station. Community members are encouraged to use these facilities to dispose of the following separated items for free:
- Scrap metal
- Whitegoods - degassed
- DrumMuster Drums, empty and rinsed clean
- Car batteries
- Old TV's and other domestic e-waste
- Gas bottles
- Fire extinguishers
- Smoke detectors
- Fluorescent light globes and tubes
- Household batteries
- Used motor oil and other oils
- Domestic mixed recycling - paper/cardboard, steel, plastic, aluminium, glass containers
If you have any further questions please contact Council’s Customer Experience team on (02) 6801 4000.
Last Edited: 17 Jul 2023