You can put small pieces of alfoil in your blue landfill waste bin. If the size of the alfoil when scrunched into a ball is bigger than the size of your fist, you can put it in your yellow recycling bin. If your alfoil ball isn't big enough, keep adding pieces to your alfoil ball until it is big enough to place in the yellow recycling bin.

Clean aluminium coffee pods, can be folded and placed into an empty aluminium drink can and placed into the Yellow recycling bin.

You can’t put asbestos in any of your bins or out for hard waste collection. We recommend doing a search on the Yellow Pages for specialised professionals or visit the EPA or Safework SA.

For information on safely and legally removing asbestos, visit the SA state government website.

You can’t put batteries in any of your bins or out for hard waste collection. You can take car and truck batteries, and non-ferrous metals to:

• Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre, 181 Morphett Road, North Plympton, 8295 5077
• Blackwood Firewood and Recycling, Main Road (opposite Railway Station), Blackwood, 8278 2996
• Daws Road Bottle Co, 76 Daws Road, Edwardstown, 8277 5588

You can take small quantities of household batteries (e.g. less than 1kg) to:

• City of Mitcham Civic Centre, 131 Belair Road Torrens Park, phone 1300 133 466
• Aldi Supermarkets
• Battery World
• Woolworths
• Foodland

Full bean bags can be placed into your blue landfill bin. These take up a lot of room so you may want to consider taking your bean bag to Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre. If you have loose beans please place them into a bag then you can dispose of them safely in your blue landfill bin.

You can’t put building and construction material in any of your bins, and you can’t put it out for hard waste collection. Instead, you should take it to a waste transfer station, such as:

• Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre, 181 Morphett Road, North Plympton, phone 8295 5077
• Lonsdale Waste and Recycling Depot, 10 Donegal Road, Lonsdale, phone 8326 5033
• Metro Waste, 19 Murray Street, Thebarton, phone 8443 8827

You can donate unwanted clothing, shoes and handbags to local op shops and charity groups. Visit Charitable Recycling Australia to find a charity op shop near you. You’ll need to make sure items you donate are in good condition and can be reused. Any items that are donated in poor condition will need to be disposed of by op shops themselves, which can increase their costs.

You can also donate clothing, shoes and handbags, including those that aren’t in good condition, through the SCR Group. In 2017, 70% of items were donated to people in need, 15% of items were recycled, and 15% of items were converted from waste to alternative fuels..

There are drop off locations at major shopping centres, including:

• Kurralta Central, Kurralta Park
• Castle Plaza, Edwardstown
• Westfield Marion, Oaklands Park
• Mile End Home, Keswick Terminal

You can also take old shoes to participating retailers to be recycled:

• Athletes Foot (Burnside Village, City, Marion and Noarlunga)
• Rebel Sports (City, Marion and Noarlunga)
• Sportspower (Glenelg, Norwood and Noarlunga)

Visit Tread Lightly to find more shoe collection locations.

E-Cigarettes and vapes with a battery can be placed into a battery recycling bin. If you have removed the battery you can recycle them through an e-waste recycling site.

Electronic waste (e-waste) are products with a power cord or battery that have reached the end of their useful life. Here are some examples:

• Televisions
• Computers (such as monitors, tablets, printers, scanners, keyboards and mice)
• Telecommunications equipment (such as faxes, mobile phones and cordless phones)
• Small household appliances (such as toasters, vacuums and microwaves)
• Electrical and electronic tools (such as sewing machines, drills, electric mowers and electric toys)
• Entertainment equipment (such as cameras, game consoles, video players, recorders, portable music players and stereos)

All e-waste is banned from landfill. If you want to get rid of e-waste, you’ll need to take it to an e-waste drop off location or recycling facility so it can be dismantled and re-manufactured.

Almost all components of e-waste can be recycled. E-waste contains non-renewable materials such as copper, nickel, tin, zinc and aluminium, but also hazardous materials including lead, mercury, cadmium and lithium. By recycling e-waste these materials are recovered and used to make new products.

Where to recycle e-waste

There are lots of facilities that accept e-waste throughout Adelaide; some accept e-waste for free and others charge a small fee. It’s important to know that some sites also only accept TVs and computers through the National TV and Computer Scheme.

Search for electronic recycling drop off locations

• There is an Unplug 'n' Drop site located at the City of Mitcham Operations Depot, 5 Winston Court, Melrose Park,  which is accessible 7am to 4pm Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays).
• The Operations Depot opens at 8am.
• Unplug N' Drop sites can be found at www.electronicrecyclingaustralia.com.au/

You can’t put light globes in any of your bins at home and you can't put them out for hard waste collection.

You can get rid of end-of-life globes at the counter of any Mitre 10 or True Value hardware stores for free. This includes compact fluorescent lamps, fluorescent tubes, incandescent gloves and halogen lamps, tubes and bulbs from residential properties. These globes will be recycled, which will help stop the mercury in some globes from harming the environment.

The closest Mitre 10 and True Value hardware stores are:

• Banner Mitre 10 Blackwood, 191 Main Road, Blackwood, 8278 8211
• Blackwood True Value Hardware, 235 Main Road, Blackwood, 8278 2171

You can’t put gas bottles in any of your bins at home and you can't put them out for hard waste collection.

You can take empty gas bottles to any 'Swap and Go' location and replace them at cost with a gas bottle that’s been filled correctly and checked by technicians. Head here for 'Swap and Go' locations. Many hardware stores and service stations offer a similar service.

You can dispose empty gas cylinders at:

• Metro Waste Services, 19-25 Murray Street, Thebarton
• Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre, 181 Morphett Road, North Plympton, 8295 5077

You can’t put hazardous waste in any of your bins at home and you can't put them out for hard waste collection.

Green Industries SA has opened some metropolitan locations to help you get rid of your hazardous waste.  Visit Green Industries SA for a list of locations and what materials they accept.

To recycle your lids, follow these simple rules:

• Plastic bottle lids can be left on plastic bottles and placed in your yellow recycling bin.
• Larger plastic lids that are fist size or credit card size can be placed lose in your yellow recycling bin.
• Steel lids should be put inside steel cans before being placed in your yellow recycling bin.
• Aluminium lids can be placed inside aluminium containers or wrapped in alfoil/aluminium trays that are fist size before being placed in your yellow recycling bin.

Don't forget to remove lids from beverage containers before you take them to the recycling depot for 10c deposit.

You can use our hard waste collection service, which accepts mattresses and sofas for free. Each household gets one collection per (financial) year for:

• one general hard waste collection
• one mattress and/or ensemble collection

Book your hard rubbish or mattress collection here.

For a fee, you can get rid of unwanted mattresses and sofas at:

• Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre, 181 Morphett Road, North Plympton, 8295 5077

Close to 100% of the components of mobile phones, accessories and batteries can be recycled.

These Council sites accept old mobile phones, or visit Mobile Muster for other locations,

• City of Mitcham Civic Centre, 131 Belair Road, Torrens Park, phone 1300 133 466

You can’t put oil in any of your bins at home and you can't put them out for hard waste collection. You can take these to:

• Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre, 181 Morphett Road, North Plympton, 8295 5077
• Lonsdale Waste and Recycling Depot, 10 Donegal Road, Lonsdale, 8326 5033
• Engine oils can be taken to Super Cheap Auto at Darlington or Thebarton

You can safely get rid of dry paint in your blue landfill bin.

Harden paint at home by leaving the lid off or by adding a paint hardener from a hardware store. Tap the hardened paint out of the tin and place it in the blue landfill bin. You can then recycle your empty, dry paint tins in your yellow recycling bin.

Liquid paint can be recycled for free through the Paintback program. See below for Paintback locations or visit their website.:

• Hackham Recyclers, 16 Cottage Lane Hackham, 8384 8667
• Wingfield-Cleanaway, George Street Wingfield, 8344 0900
• NAWMA Resource Recovery Centre, Gate 3 Bellchambers Road Edinburgh North, 1800 111 004 or 8259 2110

You can either get rid of old pharmaceuticals and medicines at local chemists or take them to a Household Hazardous Waste Depot.

We’ve placed a container in the foyer of the City of Mitcham Civic Centre for you to drop off plastic bread tags.

We recycle the bread tags at Transmutation, a local recycler based in Robe SA, who use the funds to buy wheelchairs for children in South Africa.

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a common plastic that can't be recycled through your yellow recycling bin. This doesn’t mean that pure, clean polystyrene can’t be recycled, though. Specialised machines can turn expanded polystyrene foam into a material that can be used to make items such as photo frames, coat hangers and outdoor furniture.

You can recycle household quantities of clean, white, rigid polystyrene packaging foam for free when you take it to:

• The Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre, 2 Scott Creek Road, Heathfield, 8339 4323.
• Edinburgh North Resource Recovery Centre, Gate 3 Bellchambers Road, Edinburgh North.
• Unley Works Depot, 75 King William Road, Unley

The plastic, metals and inks contained within printer cartridges can be recycled into new products. You can take printer cartridges to Planet Ark's retail drop off points throughout SA.

If you have a medical condition that needs sharps, such as diabetes, you can participate in our sharps exchange program. You can arrange for a 3.1L sharps container to be exchanged for another at no cost just call us on 1300 133 466. This is for residents only and no other container will be accepted.

Businesses will need to contact a commercial waste contractor to dispose of their pharmaceutical waste, including sharps.

You can put domestic smoke alarms in the blue landfill bin because the small amount of radioactive material in smoke alarms isn’t a health hazard, and doesn’t put anyone involved in waste handling at risk.

Not all commercial or industrial smoke alarms can go in the blue landfill bin, so if you have one of these to get rid of, give the Radiation Protection Branch from the EPA a call on 8204 2004.

The Redcycle soft plastics program is currently suspended due to a large increase of soft plastics being returned to supermarkets across the country and a significant decrease in the market demand for recycled products. For the short-term, we advise to place soft plastic wrappers and bags into the landfill bin (blue lid). Please DO NOT place any soft plastics in the yellow bin.

Please consider ways you can avoid and reduce plastic packaging through reusable and refillable bags and containers.  Many supermarkets and bulk food stores offer plastic package free options.

As information evolves, we will keep this page up to date.

Eagle Sun Enterprises collect used solar panels for re-use in Africa where they do not have reliable electricity supplies.

They will collect panels both Polycrystalline and Monocrystalline 190 watts and above in good condition, to book a collection call 0485 878 488 or email  enquiries@eaglesun.org

For more information visit Eagle Sun Enterprises

You can't put tyres in any of your bins at home and you can't put them out for hard waste collection. Don’t dump them along roads and reserves – this is illegal.

You can get rid of old tyres for a fee at:

• Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre, 181 Morphett Road, North Plympton, 8295 5077
• Southern Tyre Disposals, 6 Meyer Road, Lonsdale, 8326 8555

Tyre retailers including Beaurepaires, Kmart Tyre and Auto Service, and Goodyear Autocare may also accept your unwanted tyres.

You can recycle old bicycle tyres for free at 99 Bikes. To find a location near you visit https://www.99bikes.com.au/

You can take old x-rays to:

• City of Mitcham Civic Centre, 131 Belair Road, Torrens Park. No fees apply.
• CMA Ecocycle, 1A Portsmouth Court, Gillman. Phone 8262 4558. No fees apply.
• Shred-X, unit 3, 2 Lafitte Road, Wingfield. Phone 1300 747 339. Fees apply.
• Murray Bridge Council, Brinkley Waste Recycling Depot, Brinkley Road, Murray Bridge. Phone 8532 6385. No fees apply.
• Adelaide Hills Council, Heathfield Resource Recovering Centre, Scott Creek Road, Heathfield. Phone 8339 4323. No fees apply.