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Kerbside Collection For Clayfield: What To Do With Unacceptable Items

Kerbside Collection Day for Clayfield and nearby suburbs is fast approaching. Have you sorted your items for disposal yet? Here’s a list of acceptable and unacceptable items, and what to do with items that cannot be picked up.

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Kerbside Collection Items

Here are the acceptable items for collection:

furniture and white goods (e.g. fridges and stoves)
small household appliances (e.g. fans and toasters)
carpet and rugs
bath and laundry tubs
wood products less than 1.5 metres
bicycles and sporting equipment
electronic waste (e.g. televisions and computers)

The following items, however, should not be placed on the kerb during the collection period:

garden waste (e.g. trees, grass, potted plants)
dirt and stones
bricks and concrete
commercial builders waste
car parts and tyres, including car batteries
general household waste (e.g. food scraps)
liquids
hazardous wastes (e.g. chemicals, oil, asbestos)
gas bottles
glass and mirrors
household waste that normally goes into your waste or recycling bin

Bring them to resource recovery facilities

Brisbane City Council operates four resource recovery centres at Chandler, Ferny Grove, Nudgee and Willawong with recycling and waste facilities. You can drop them off for free or use your waste vouchers.

Printer cartridges are among the household waste that does not normally go into your waste or recycling bin.

If you have ink cartridges, you can bring them to Planet Ark, which turns the materials, such as plastics, metal, inks, and toners into new products. When they are disposed of into landfill, these resources are lost.

kerbside collection for Clayfield — Photo credit: wolteeva/Pixabay

The Cartridges 4 Planet Ark program is an innovative recycling program that provides residents with an easy and environmentally accredited way to recycle their used printer cartridges.

Batteries, on the other hand, are among the top items commonly put on the kerb, even if they don’t belong there. Please remember that they cannot be disposed of in everyday household disposal bins or recycling bins.

Batteries should be brought to Aldi, Battery World, and selected Officeworks instead, where they will be properly recycled to prevent them from ending up in the landfill.

Once the batteries are collected by specialists, they undergo sorting and separation into various grades, before they are processed into materials that can be used to manufacture new batteries or be used in the production of other steel products.

Just a tip before dropping off your batteries, tape the ends using non-conductive tape like electrical tape or sticky tape to prevent sparkling which creates fire hazards.

Meanwhile, resource recovery centres also accept hazardous waste. Many of these hazardous waste are items at home, including bleach, garden chemicals, and cleaning solvents bought from supermarkets.

You can take advantage of the next free drop-off day at the Nudgee Resource Recovery Centre on Saturday, 3 December 2022, from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to drop off your household hazardous waste.

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Mark your calendars

For the kerbside collection for Clayfield and nearby suburbs, don’t forget these dates:

Suburb	Date
Hendra	24 October 2022
Kalinga	24 October 2022
Northgate	24 October 2022
Wooloowin	24 October 2022
Clayfield	31 October 2022

Get Ready for Kerbside Collection in Clayfield

Residents, get ready to put your piles out as Kerbside Collection in Clayfield is coming up on Monday, 12 August 2019.

This weekend is the best time to get organised and prepare for the collection time. Remember that all items for collection should be in front of your property by 6:00 am of the collection day.

To help you be ready for the kerbside collection, here is the list of acceptable and unacceptable items for collection:

Items accepted during the collection

bath and laundry tubs
bicycles and sporting equipment
carpet and rugs
electronic waste (e.g. televisions and computers)
furniture and white goods (e.g. fridges and stoves)
small household appliances (e.g. fans and toasters)
wood products less than 1.5 metres

Items not accepted during the collection

bricks and concrete
commercial builders waste
car parts and tyres, including car batteries
dirt and stones
garden waste (e.g. trees, grass, potted plants)
gas bottles
general household waste (e.g. food scraps)
glass and mirrors
hazardous wastes (e.g. chemicals, oil, asbestos)
household waste that normally goes into your waste or recycling bin
liquids

As you start making your pile of items for collection, make sure to keep them tidy on the kerb whilst keeping the footpath or roadway clear. Also, take note that the Council will not collect piles larger than two cubic metres.

Scavengers, Assemble!

Kerbside Collection in Clayfield — *Photo credit: www.keng.id.au*

The idea of scavenging is not new since the kerbside collection is a great opportunity for others to get things that are still usable for free. This is especially helpful for those who need a couple of household stuff but are currently on a budget.

With all the piles that will be out there, who knows what treasure awaits a keen scavenger during this collection period. After all, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, right?

Treasure hunting can be exciting, however, scavengers must not forget a few rules whilst scouring their biggest finds. Following are simple reminders for treasure hunters during the kerbside collection:

Leave it the same way you found it (or better). You probably found that pile neatly stacked up. After going through the pile, try your best to leave it as neat and presentable as possible.
Maximise your time. It would be a good idea to check out various piles in the area first to get a picture of what is out there.
Keep a list of what you need. It is certainly tempting to get several things for free but it is better to stick to a list of what you need. Otherwise, you might end up getting something that you will just throw away after some time.
Avoid conflicts. Try to stop by a pile without other scavengers. This way, you will avoid wanting what the other person found before you.

Donating Usable Items

Kerbside collection is certainly helpful for those who want to get rid of huge unwanted items from their home. However, if you think that you’ve got a lot of items that are still usable, you can choose to donate them instead.

You can either give them to friends and family or donate them to a local charity or other reuse and recycling organisations. The following organisations are recommended by BCC to help you reuse and recycle large household items.

GIVIT
National Association of Charitable Recycling Organisations Inc. (NACRO)
Council’s tip shops

Get Your Piles Ready for Kerbside Collection Day in Clayfield

The countdown is on for Clayfield’s Kerbside Collection Day on Monday, the 14th of August. It’s the time of the year again for the neighbourhood to get rid of their unwanted clutter and those pieces of furniture and appliances that are too big for their wheelie bins. The Brisbane City Council recommends that all items should be taken out this weekend.

Here are some important points that you should keep in mind before the collection.

List & Limit

Be mindful of the items you will take out. There is a list of acceptable and unacceptable items. The Council will not collect household waste that normally goes into the waste and recycle bins. Failure to remove these unacceptable items within seven days will result into illegal dumping fines.

If there’s a list, there’s also a limit. Kerbside Collection only happens once a year, but that does not mean you can haphazardly dump all of the items that you can for this day. The Council will only collect piles that are not larger than two cubic metres, or the equivalent of a small box trailer load to cater to the whole neighbourhood.

Get Organised

You have a few more days left to pack and think of all the items that you want to take out to the kerb. After sorting your disposables, place items like carpet, rugs, and electronic waste into boxes and trash bags. Use trash bags for unbreakable items like carpet and rugs as they can be compressed together to maximise the kerb space. Don’t forget to put labels on them.

Be courteous to the collectors; do not leave sharp objects in your pile. All items should be easily and safely lifted by two people. The doors of appliances and furnitures like refrigerators and cupboards should be removed.

Make Nice and Neat Piles

The items that you put out on the kerb may be unwanted items that you consider rubbish, but make sure you pile them up neatly and with care. Keep the piles tidy to avoid blocking the footpaths and driveways. Be sure to secure the items properly to avoid damage or scattering in case of adverse weather conditions.

If you plan to go scavenger hunting this weekend, respect your neighbours’ piles. Leave their piles tidy after rummaging through them. They followed the rules in keeping their piles organised and neat, so it’s your obligation to keep things that way, or even leave their piles neater than when you started.

Got Excess? No Problem.

If you have items that are not on the approved collection list, take them to any of the various Resource Recovery Centres in Clayfield’s neighbouring suburbs. Recovery centres accept both recyclable and green or general waste. There are centres located at Nudgee, Willawong, Ferny Grove, and Chandler.

Vehicles that are under 4.5 tonnes Combined Gross Vehicle Mass (CGVM) can use the drive-through recycling area for free, whilst vehicles above 4.5 tonnes CGVM can still recycle, but with fees applied.

If you have reached the Council’s kerb limit and you are left with items that are still usable, consider donating them. The Council’s Tip Shops and various charities around Brisbane will accept these items with open arms. You may have missed the limit, but you will not miss helping the people who really need the items.

Visit the BCC’s official website to know more about waste management disposal.