Transfer Stations are based in our local Victorian Councils & Community Recycling Centres within our local NSW Councils, they are both designed to maximise reuse and recycle.
Transfer Stations and Community Recycling Centres (CRC) offer free disposal for problem waste. Such items include chemicals, paint, fluoro tubes/globes, gas bottles, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, waste oil (cooking and motor oil) and batteries (household and car). *You can recycle a wide range of materials at your local transfer station or recycling centre, with many items being accepted free of charge.* By sorting your load you will be reducing the amount of waste going to landfill and helping us in achieving our goal of halving waste to landfill.
E Waste recycling
A-Z Of what Goes to the transfer station
Batteries RECYCLING
PROBLEM WASTE
E-Waste, which is also known as electronic and electrical waste cannot be disposed of in any of your kerbside bins. E-Waste is any item with a plug, battery or cord that is no longer working or wanted, for example: computers, mobile phones, televisions, kitchen appliances and white goods, children’s toys, coffee machines.
E-Waste has a combination of valuable and hazardous material which don’t belong in landfill.
E-Waste is the most common form of hazardous waste disposed of by Australian Households. By recycling these items at your local transfer station or recycling centre the environment will thank you.
E-Waste is dissembled into a range of materials before being sent to recyclers and made into a range of new products:
But it is even better is to try and avoid creating E-Waste in the first place. You can do this by:
Batteries are the most common form of hazardous waste disposed of by Australian Households. By recycling lead-acid batteries, the environment will thank you.
Batteries are not recyclable in your yellow-lidded recycling bin. However, there are designated drop off locations where they can be recycled. Each lead-acid battery contains lead and 2-3 litres of sulphuric acid. Lead is a cumulative poison that affects our bodies and is also harmful to the environment, particularly fish, animals and plants. Recycling lead-acid uses less energy than refining primary ore and removes lead from the environment.
There are three types of common batteries:
After batteries are collected, they are sorted by type and components and sent to licensed recycling facilities in Australia or overseas for processing. Recycling battery components is a complex and expensive process due to the chemistry involved.
Problem Waste is waste that cannot go into any of your kerbside bins. These items include: household & car batteries, gas bottles/cylinders, motor & cooking oil, paint, light globes/fluro tubes, smoke detectors and fire extinguishers.
Problem Waste items are known to cause serious harm to the people involved in transferring or processing the waste material as well as causing fires, chemical spills and other preventable disasters. This is why these items cannot go into any of your kerbside bins.
Problem Waste must be dropped off at designated transfer stations and recycling centres so they can be recycled and disposed of correctly, without harming people, wildlife and the environment.
When recycled correctly, Problem Waste is turned into reuseable materials which can then be used in new products.
Plus, it helps to protect natural resources and eliminate toxic materials ending up in landfill.
Below is a quick reference for Transfer Stations, Community Recycling Centres and landfills in the local area.
For full details of the types of waste collected at each facility and the costs involved in disposal, please click on the links below.
Halve Waste was founded by Albury City Council, City of Wodonga, Federation Council and the Shires of Greater Hume and Indigo.
The Halve Waste program implements local solutions to reduce all wastes to landfill by 80% by 2030, which aligns with the State Government targets.
As a region, we all support the goals of Halve Waste and collaborate to achieve these goals.
You can view the full list of councils who are part of the Halve Waste initiative here.
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