By dropping off your items, you are making a big difference to ensure that they don't end up in landfill.

What happens to your items

Cardboard

Excess cardboard will be transported to Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre, where the cardboard is aggregated on behalf of Council. The paper/cardboard is then transported to Visy (another Australian company) in Sydney’s western suburbs, for sorting and sending to paper mills to produce packaging, cardboard boxes and other paper products such as recycled paper towels and toilet paper.

Small metal items

Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre sends the small metal items to Sell and Parker Metal Recycling Services. The items are then shredded and smelted back into raw steel to be remanufactured into steel products.

Plastic plant pots

PP5 plastic plant pots, punnets and plant labels are recycled and made into new plant pots and other useful horticultural products.  For more information, please visit PP5 website and Garden City Plastics website.

Raw timber, flat pack furniture and raw pallets

Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre sends the eligible timber collected to reDirect Recycling who blend it with other raw materials and process it back into new particleboard sheets to be used in kitchen cabinets and other joinery at their facility in Oberon. Find out more.