Recycling In The Greater Geelong Area
Recently I changed the oil in my car and was left with 4 litres of dirty sump oil. I didn’t really feel like throwing it in the red bin, in fact it gave me the guilts. I found out that Geelong Waste Recovery Centre in North Geelong and the one in Drysdale accept used car oil and filters at no charge.
The previous week my car battery died. I found out this would be accepted at no charge as well.
Almost on the same day my washing machine packed it in so now I had to dump that along with packaging from the new washing machine. Amazingly I could take these items to the Geelong Waste Recovery Centre free of charge as well.
Before you think about hiring a skip bin and filling it with your rubbish make sure it can’t be recycled.
Here’s a list of items that the Recovery Centres will accept
Domestic quantities of sorted recyclable material up to 0.5 cubic metres are accepted free:
• Aluminium and steel cans
• Car batteries
• Clean Cardboard and paper (0.5 cubic metre maximum)
• Computer items and accessories
• E-waste items
• Fluorescent tubes and lights
• Gas BBQ bottles (up to 9 kilograms)
• Hot water service
• Household batteries
• Machine and motor oil
• Oil containers – Can only accept a maximum of 30 litres in any one transaction of any motor oil. These need to be in maximum of 5 litre containers.
• Paint and paint tins (domestic quantities of paint – up to 30 litres in one transaction)
• Rigid plastic items such as outdoor furniture
• Scrap metal items such as lawn mowers
• Small electrical items such kettles, hair dryers and toasters
• Televisions
• Tools
• White goods – fridges, ovens, dryers, dishwashers
(check more detailed description and terms here)
This is a fantastic service and really helps with recycling and reusing.
Once you have done this you can order a skip bin for the rest!