Kerbside recycling? YES!
Envelopes with a plastic window: These can go straight into your recycling bin as they are – you don’t have to remove the plastic insert.
Stapled documents: Currently, paper documents with staples can be put into your recycling bin, although rules may change in the future.
Glossy magazines: These can also go straight into your recycling bin.
Metal container lids: These can go into your kerbside bin – here's how to recycle the different types.
Tissue boxes: Remove the plastic insert (this can’t be recycled). Put the flattened tissue box in your kerbside recycling bin.
Containers with paper labels: No need to remove labels from glass bottles and jars, metal cans or plastic containers.
Plastic/glass roll-on deodorant containers: These should be empty, dry, and placed in your recycling bin without the lid.
Gift wrap: Paper gift wrap only (even if it has sticky tape attached) can be placed into your recycling bin – but not if it has glitter or foil.
Takeaway containers: Yes and no! Here's a quick guide for recycling some of them.
Paper bags, egg cartons, pizza boxes (clean), toilet paper and paper towel inner tube: can all go in your yellow lid bin.
Broken glass: yes, except mirror glass and light globes
Kerbside recycling? NO!
Plastic bottle lids: Single-use plastic bottle lids are too small for recycling sorting machines to cope with, which is why they cannot be recycled in your kerbside bins. Find some recycling options here.
Takeaway coffee cups: In selected 7-Eleven stores, you can recycle your cups and lids, otherwise, they will go to landfill; so, consider using a reusable cup instead (and a lot of cafes will give you a discount for BYO cups).
Shredded paper: Yes, paper is recyclable. Unfortunately, shredded paper fragments are too small to retrieve from your kerbside recycling bin. So, why not reuse it instead - here are 9 nifty ways.
Padded post bags: These are made of mixed materials so they can’t go into your kerbside recycling bin. Remove the label and reuse it instead.
Medication blister packs: Another mixed material offender! But there are a couple of places you can recycle your blister packs – otherwise, they are off to landfill.
Laminated documents: These cannot be recycled and must go into the general waste bin.
Plastic-coated cardboard: If you have a gift box made of cardboard with a shiny coating, it can’t be recycled. Hang on to it and reuse it if you can.
‘Long-life’ cartons (such as juice and liquid stock): These cannot be recycled as they have a foil lining and need to go in your general waste bin. These cartons are found on the general shelves of the supermarket rather than the chilled section. Recycling supermarket cartons
Crockery: Cannot go into your kerbside recycling bin. You could donate anything in good condition.
Till receipts: If a till receipt is printed on shiny, thermal paper, it cannot be recycled. Some businesses will email or text it to you instead.
Pots and pans: Even though they are made of metal, pans cannot be recycled via your kerbside bin. If they are in good condition, donate them to a charity shop instead.
Plastic bread tags: these are too small for the machines used at recycling facilities. There are charities that collect them though. How to recycle plastic bread tags
Aerosol cans: Classed as hazardous household waste, these cannot go into your kerbside recycling bin. Here's what you should do with your empty aerosol cans
Plastic gift wrap: Plastic or cellophane gift wrap cannot go into your kerbside recycling bin.
DVDs and CDs: Also made of plastic but also not able to be recycled through your kerbside bin. Here's what you can do with them instead.
Printer cartridges: Although these contain plastic, they also contain chemicals which can leach out into groundwater when sent to landfill. Recycle them at these stores instead.
Lightbulbs: A big no-no for your kerbside recycling. Here's how you can keep them out of landfill.
Coffee pods: Although some are made from aluminium, they cannot go into your recycling bin. Check here for other recycling options.
Source: https://recycleright.wa.gov.au
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