Sort your load

Taking a little extra time to sort your load before leaving home can save time and money at the waste facility. Sorting your load will make disposal of different materials at each of the designated collection points easy.

If a load is not sorted, it can be difficult to see what types of materials are in the load. This means in some cases, the attendant can only charge the highest rate. This is why sorting your load before leaving home is so important.

Sorting can be as simple as:

• Grouping reusable items together (furniture, mowers, bikes, etc). 
• Keeping recyclables together and flattening any large cardboard boxes. 
• Sorting bricks and rubble together. 
• Separating timber, metals, electronic waste and green waste from general rubbish.

All reusable items collected at our waste facilities are sold at our Tip Shops located at Maryborough and Nikenbah.

NOTE: It is now free to drop off polystyrene packaging (up to one cubic metre). Council has bought a machine that melts the polystyrene into bricks so it does not go to landfill. The bricks can be further processed to produce a range of products such as composite decking, picture frames and skirting boards.