Local Recycling
Ideally, we want to
Refuse, Reduce, Repurpose our “waste.”
The next best step is to Recycle
Bridgetown Library Recycling Hub
Located at Bridgetown Library 75 Steere Street, Bridgetown, WA, 6255, (08) 9761 2503,
Opening Hours 10am -5pm Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, 10am -7pm Thursday 9am -12 noon Saturday (These opening hours are valid as of Dec 2021 you can check for any changes in opening hours at Library » Shire of Bridgetown
- Reading glasses and Sunglasses. Transition Bridgetown take the glasses to SpecSavers stores who send them on to the Fred Hollows Foundation. There they are sorted and distributed to needy recipients throughout the world.
- Writing Implements – taken to OfficeWorks by volunteers who are going to Bunbury, Perth or wherever an Officeworks store is located. Officeworks Recycling ♻️ – Everything You Should Know (waster.com.au) Officeworks send them to the Terracycle Program where they are recycled into raw formats after which manufacturers use them to make new products such as outdoor furniture, watering cans etc.
- Toothcare products, – sent to TerraCycle Terracycle process the products to transform them for sale to manufacturers. This is where your waste gets shredded, melted down, perhaps combined with other additives, and turned into a usable raw material format like regrind, pellets, or powder. These converted plastics are then melted, moulded, and extruded or injected into the manufacturing supply chain and recycled as new, durable products.
- Empty Blister Packs – sent to BRAD for recycling
- Plastic Bread Tags– sent to BRAD for recycling Reminder: Plastic bread tags break and can be deposited in the hub, Cardboard bread tags, bend. (These can go in your compost or worm farm)
- CDs (CDs only, i.e. NO CASES) taken to Office Works by volunteers who are going to Bunbury,
- We are no longer collecting Plastic lids at Lid Washing Days. Instead we are asking you to take your lids to the Containers for Change facility at our local tip
- We are no longer collecting mobile phones at The Library Recycling Hub, Instead Mobile phones, chargers accessories and wearables, including smart watches, can be deposited at Mitre 10 (along with your batteries)
Bridgetown Hub – Recycling Hub
- All brands of Hair Aerosol containers (ie. hairspray, mousse, dry shampoo etc)
- All brands of empty hair colour jars, lids, bottles, closures, tubes, pumps, caps and stirrers made from plastics and flexible or rigid aluminum. (including gloves from dye boxes)
- All brands of hair care jars, lids, bottles, closures, tubes, pumps and caps (ie, gel, wax etc)
- All brands of blades and razors (refillable and disposable), rigid plastic packaging from razors, flexible plastic bag packaging from razors.
- Electronic toothbrushes handles only – NO bases.
- Burt’s Bees personal care, lip care and skin care packaging (no other brands).
Soft Plastics
Unfortunately the Redcycle soft plastics program is no longer running. In the meantime please store your soft plastics and consider making eco bricks
Containers for Change
See Home | Containers for Change for details on what containers are eligible. This is now managed by Iggy Vann Facebook email: cfcbridgetown@gmail.com, phone: 0431 313 436 .Drop off is at Bridgetown Tip. Plastic and Metal lids can also be deposited. Please remove them from the container before depositing. Containers are transported by Cleanaways to Claw Environmental Recycling Perth – Polystyrene Recycling
Transition Bridgetown are now registered to gratefully accept the donation of any refunds you receive from the Containers For Change scheme. If you do not already have a preferred community group to which you contribute your refunds, we would welcome your donations towards our costs of printing/photocopying, etc. Our ID is C10461241.
Other recycling facilities available in town
- E-waste [computers, laptops, modems etc] Bridgetown Computers 1/101 Hampton St Bridgetown Ph 9761 4430 or Trish on 0419 912 126·
- Aluminium cans, motor vehicle batteries, batteries of all sorts – the Lions Group lions6255@gmail.com
- Books -the Bridgetown Library Ph 9761 2503·
- Wool, yarn, material, ribbon, buttons, textiles – Bridgetown Arts and Crafts Ph 97611288
- Hearing aid batteries Pharmacy 777 These will be shipped to eco-cycle, where the metals are recycled as scrap metal and the mercury is used in the manufacture of dental amalgam. Battery Waste Disposal And Recycling – Ecobatt (ecocycle.com.au)
- Batteries and Mobile phones– Mitre 10
- Ink print cartridges – Post Office , Mitre 10, Newsagents
- Used Stamps – Post Office
- Timber, recycled wood – Men’s Shed Ph 9761 1288·
- Furniture – Bridgetown Buy Swap & Sell, Tip Shop·
- Garden tools – Ashbil Community Garden Bridgetown
- Plastic Labels from plant pots – Hillview Nursery
- Surplus produce – Ashbil Community Garden Bridgetown, Bridgetown Produce Swap
Bridgetown Waste Management Facility
- Fluro light globes
- timber,
- household batteries,
- clean eligible drumMUSTER agricultural drums,
- dry flattened cardboard
- Car batteries
- Mattresses with metal springs
- E-waste
- Fridges, Microwaves and other metal white goods
- Old (but in good condition) furniture and all other items you would take to an Op Shop (excluding clothes and shoes)
- Car/truck/motorbike tyres
- Used engine oil
- Scrap metal ( free of wood or other non-metal components)
| BRIDGETOWN TRANSFER STATION LOCATION AND OPENING HOURS
Bridgetown-Boyup Brook Road approximately 4km from the town centre |
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| Monday & Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday & Thursday | 7.30am to 12.00pm |
| Friday | 7.30am to 11.00am |
| Saturday & Sunday | 9.00am to 4.00pm |
Yellow lidded Kerbside Bin
Commingled waste recycling bin (cleanaway.com.au) At collection, the driver will do a visual check of the recycling bin to ensure there’s no contamination – like plastic bags, food,nappies or textiles. The recyclables will then be transported to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) for processing. A combination of automated machinery and manual sorters sort the recyclables into different streams to be baled.
Acceptable Plastic in our recycling bins
Please note that Cleanaways are no longer recycling hard plastics (resin code 5) nor black plastic. Acceptable plastics are PET and HDPE
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(some) shampoo and conditioner bottles |
See our Shire’s website for more info on Waste Management » Shire of Bridgetown
and Materials A-Z – Recycle Right for a simple guide on “how do I dispose of this ?”