Other waste

Foil pie trays, cooking trays and alfoil sheets (food-free) can be collected into a fist-sized ball and placed in your recycling bin (yellow lid). Small empty pet food tins can also go into the recycling bin (a quick scrape out or rinse is helpful).

Household batteries include AA, AAA, C, D, 9V, button cell.

Why recycle them? 
Around 8,000 tonnes of batteries are disposed to landfills in Australia each year, making them the most common form of hazardous household waste. This also represents a huge loss of valuable, non-renewable resources.

Where can they be dropped off?
There are free drop-off points for battery recycling at many supermarkets and hardware stores. Find you nearest drop-off point on the B-cycle website.

RE-CO on Oaklands Road in Somerton Park will take your batteries free of charge as well as a whole range of other items that can only be recycled by taking to a selected drop-off point. Visit their website to see everything they accept.

Many chemists now take empty medicine blister packs to be recycled. Chemist Warehouse are the latest place to join the recycling program.

Find a chemist who recycles blister packs near you. 

RE-CO on Oaklands Road in Somerton Park will take blister packs free of charge as well as a whole range of other items that can only be recycled by taking to a selected drop-off point. Visit their website to see everything they accept.

Car and truck batteries contain valuable resources such as lead. Various collection points are listed below, though you may find others from searching online.

• Independent Battery Distributors (IBD)
  Marion Industrial Park
  Unit 5, 937 Marion Road, Mitchell Park SA 5043
  Phone: 8296 6311
  All types of vehicle and household batteries accepted free of charge.
• Daws Road Bottle Co
  76 Daws Road, Edwardstown SA 5039
  Phone: 8277 5588
• Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre
  181 Morphett Road, North Plympton SA 5037
  Phone: 8295 5077
• Battery World Marion
  173 Sturt Road, Seacombe Gardens SA 5047
  Phone: 8296 6900
  Fees apply for disposal of commercial quantities.

RE-CO on Oaklands Road in Somerton Park will take bulk cardboard free of charge as well as a whole range of other items that can only be recycled by taking to a dedicated drop-off point. Visit their website to see what they accept.

Daws Road Recycling also accept bulk cardboard. Check with them if fees apply.

This item goes in the waste bin at home (red lid). Cling wrap cannot go in your recycling bin at home as it gets caught in the recycling machinery and causes breakdowns.

Donate good quality clothing to charity op shops. Local shops are listed on our Reducing waste page.

RE-CO on Oaklands Road in Somerton Park will take donations of quality clothing free of charge as well as a whole range of other items that can only be recycled by taking to a selected drop-off point. Visit their website to see everything they accept.

See below under 'sneakers' for information about where you can recycle worn-out shoes.

Recycle your worn out clothing at H & M stores, Zara, Underwear for Humanity (for their customers only), and Upparel.
Or turn your old clothes into cleaning rags.

Oils are banned from landfill and cannot be put into any of your bins at home.

Domestic quantities of oil from households, small businesses and community groups can be recycled free of charge. Bring your used cooking oil in a container for decanting into a drum at:

Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre 
181 Morphett Road, North Plympton SA 5037 
Phone: 8295 5077

Electronic (e-waste) is anything that needed a plug or a battery to work. These include everything from computers, TVs, printers and DVD players, to hairdryers and electric mixers.

Visit our Electronic waste page for disposal options.

You can take eye glasses for free recycling to:

RE-CO
59 Oaklands Road, Somerton Park SA 5044
Open Monday to Friday 8.30am-5pm, Saturday 8.30am-2pm, Sunday 10am-2pm.

Empty gas bottles can be taken to any 'Swap and Go' location and replaced at cost with a full gas bottle correctly filled and serviced by technicians (refer to link below for locations).

Empty gas bottles can be taken to:

• Daws Road Recycling Centre 
  76 Daws Road, Edwardstown SA 5039 
  Phone: 8277 5588 (check whether fees may apply)
  
• Adelaide Waste and Recycling (hazardous waste drop-off)
  181 Morphett Road, North Plympton SA 5037 
  Phone: 8295 5077
  
• RE-CO on Oaklands Road in Somerton Park will take gas bottles free of charge as well as a whole range of other items that can only be recycled by taking to a dedicated drop-off point. Visit their website to see everything they accept.

Some tricky waste is hazardous, such as pool and garden chemicals, heavy metals and cleaning fluids. For more information go to our Hazardous waste page.

For information about asbestos, visit our Asbestos page.

You can drop off old fluorescent light globes for free at:

• the front counter of any Mitre 10 or True value hardware store. This is a free service and excludes commercial quantities of globes.
• Marion City Services at 935 Marion Road, Mitchell Park SA 5043 (open Monday-Friday 8.30am-5pm)
  Residents can can bring up to six domestic light globes at one time.
• RE-CO on Oaklands Road in Somerton Park will take light globes as well as a whole range of other items that can only be recycled by taking to a dedicated drop-off point. Visit their website to see everything they accept.

This ensures that globes will be recycled instead of going to landfill and prevents mercury contained in some globes from harming the environment.

Council offers a free collection service through the hard rubbish collection service. Visit our Hard rubbish collections page to find out more about this service and book a collection.

Any unwanted medicines should be taken to a pharmacy for safe disposal. All chemists accept old medication and pills. Unwanted medicines should never be put in the waste bin (red lid) or down the drain.

See above under 'blister packs' for recycling empty medicine packets (foil/ plastic composite)

Recycling mobile phones is easy. Simply take your phone into any mobile phone shop, Officeworks or Post Office and ask for it to be recycled.

Alternatively you can recycle it through council by placing it in the Mobile Muster tube in the foyer of:

• City of Marion 
  245 Sturt Road, Sturt SA 5047 
  Monday to Friday 8.30am - 5.00pm
• Cove Civic Centre 
  1 Ragamuffin Drive, Hallett Cove SA 5158
• Park Holme Library 
  1 Duncan Avenue, Park Holme SA 5043

Find out more about mobile phone recycling on the Mobile Muster website.

Households, small businesses and hobby groups can recycle small quantities of oil at any of the following locations free of charge:

• Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre
  181 Morphett Road, North Plympton SA 5037
  Phone: 8295 5077
• Southern Region Waste Resource Authority
  112 Bakewell Drive, Seaford Heights SA 5169
• Supercheap Auto
  Find the nearest participating store on their website:
  Supercheap Auto website

Most garages will also accept oil.

Paint is only hazardous when it is wet. Dry paint is perfectly safe to dispose of in your waste bin (red lid). You can dry and harden paint by leaving the lid off or purchase a paint hardener from a hardware store and then tap the dry paint tablet into the waste bin.

If it’s only got a little paint left, pour it over kitty litter or newspaper, let it dry, and then put it in your red lidded general rubbish bin. The dry and empty paint tin can go in the recycling bin.

Liquid paint can be recycled for free through the Paintback program, locally available at:

Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre
181 Morphett Road, North Plympton SA 5037
Phone: 8295 5077

Find out more, including other locations, on the Paintback website.

You can drop off your used printer cartridges at all Officeworks and participating Australia Post, Harvey Norman, The Good Guys, and JB Hi-fi outlets.

RE-CO on Oaklands Road in Somerton Park will take printer cartridges as well as a whole range of other items that can only be recycled by taking to a dedicated drop-off point. Visit their website to see everything they accept.

Many pharmacies will accept used syringes from residents with medical conditions (needles and syringes must be returned in a medical sharps container).

The City of Marion Customer Service Centre on Sturt Road also has a sharps disposal unit for customers to dispose of syringes which are contained in medical sharps disposal containers.

Up to two domestic smoke alarms can be disposed to your waste bin (red lid) per week.
Businesses will need to contact the EPA Radiation Protection Branch on 8204 2004.

Recycle your old sneakers and athletic shoes via the Tread Lightly recycling program.

Accepted shoes:

• Athletic Lifestyle Shoes
• Any Sports Branded Shoes
• Thongs and Slides
• Football Boots
• Leather Sports Shoes
• Hiking Boots
• Sneakers
• Runners
• Golf Shoes
• Formal Leather School Shoes

Find out more about Tread Lightly and find your nearest drop off location. 

Many garages and businesses will take in old tyres for a small fee. For disposal of old car tyres you can contact:

• Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre
  181 Morphett Road, North Plympton
  Phone 8295 5077
• Tyre Cycle
  8 Meyer Road, Lonsdale
  Phone 8325 4700
  http://www.tyrecycle.com.au/
• The Tyre Collectors
  26 Cormack Road, Wingfield
  Phone 8252 7000
  

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

You can take X-rays for free recycling to:

• RE-CO
  59 Oaklands Road, Somerton Park SA 5044
  Open Open Monday to Friday 8.30am-5pm, Saturday 8.30am-2pm and Sunday 10am-2pm.
  

X-rays contain heavy metals and must not be placed in your kerbside bins.