Recycling Programmes

WARNING!

Batteries should never be put in your recycling or waste bin. Rechargeable batteries and lithium-ion batteries are hazardous and could produce sparks that may start a fire in the trucks or recycling facility. This includes batteries in laptops, mobile phones, power tools and cameras. Place sticky tape around battery terminals to prevent fires.

Town of Cambridge Battery Collection Locations

- Administration Building (map)

- Library (map)

- Wembley Community Centre (map)

- Floreat Forum (map)

- Cambridge International Food Court (map)

B-cycle Battery Recycling

You can find alternative battery drop off locations using the B-cycle Drop off point search.

These may include your local Coles, Woolworths or Bunnings.

The Town of Cambridge made the top 10 e-waste recycling councils for our collection in July 2023.

Winner of Waste Innovation, Waste Sorted Awards 2022.

Declutter your house and protect our environment.

Free eWaste drop-off days are held throughout the year at the Town of Cambridge Administration Centre, 1 Bold Park Drive, Floreat WA 6014.

Things you can dispose of at an eWaste day:

• Phones
• Tablets
• TVs
• DVD players
• Cameras
• Printers
• Speakers
• Laptops
• Computers
• Monitors
• Household appliances
• Anything with a cord or battery. 

Also accepting (please keep separate):

• Batteries (not lithium)
• Household globes (no cardboard)
• Electric toothbrushes

Check the What's On Calendar for upcoming dates.

A charity truck may be at the event to accept working electrical items for donation.

Contact the Town's Waste Minimisation Officer on (08) 9347 6041 or email waste@cambridge.wa.gov.au for more information.

Note: Apple/Google accounts need to be removed from devices otherwise it renders the hardware useless for refurbishment and reissue.

Click here for instructions on account removal

Year round free drop-off is available for anything with a cord or a battery, including digital media at your local recycling centre

2024 Charity Drop-off Days

• Saturday, 9 March 2024 from 9.00am to 3.00pm (or until the available trucks are full)

• Saturday, 22 June 2024 from 9.00am to 3.00pm (or until the available trucks are full)

Items must be clean and undamaged. 

Charities will also accept furniture and working electrical appliances.

Things you can dispose of at a charity drop-off day:

• All types of clothing
• Furniture
• Working electrical items
• Accessories and jewellery
• Manchester: Towels, tableware and tea towels
• Bedding, linen and blankets
• Shoes, boots and slippers
• Homewares
• Games, Toys, DVDs CDs
• Bags, hats, belts
• Crockery, glassware.

Items should be presented in boxes and bags. 

Simply drive up and our friendly staff will unload your car for you. 

Please do not bring white goods, hazardous waste, or non-working electronic waste to this day.

No mattresses collected on this day. That is a separate service that can be booked here.

Complete and submit this Mattress Collection Form to have your unwanted mattresses collected.

The Town of Cambridge no longer operates the Pool Cover and Plastics recycling program.

Soft plastics should be placed into your red lidded waste bin.

Remondis is working on installing soft plastic recycling capabilities in 2024.

Cleanaway has 'clear soft plastic' recycling available for businesses.

Where to take your plastics now.

Plastic pool covers can be:

• Offered on local social media groups for free, on Facebook Marketplace or Gumtree.
• Disposed of by using your Verge Valet allocation.
• Cut it into A3 sized pieces and placed into your red waste bin.

• Taken to West Metro Recycling Centre (map) (fees).

There are many plastic items that you can drop off at the West Metro Recycling Centre for FREE.

• Plastic plant pots, empty, no seedling trays please. If you need some pots, help yourself!
• Plastic bottles, clean and empty, lids off.
• Plastic bottle lids, clean lids, smaller than 10cm diameter, no colour separation required.
• Polystyrene, bulk, no food containers or pellets.

There are many plastic items that you can drop off at Claw Environmental for FREE.

• Plastic plant pots, Bang out any loose organic material and stack. They do not need to be sorted by colour. Stacking same size pots will reduce the space taken for storage. No seedling trays please.
• Plastic meat trays, Wash thoroughly to remove any trace of meat residue.
• Plastic bottle lids, The lids do not have to be sorted into colour or polymer. Any size lid up to 10cm can go into our blended mix.
  Lids larger than this will usually have the polymer stamped on them. We can still take these but they will go into our pure polymer streams. Please keep separate.
• Polystyrene, Polystyrene comes in two forms, rigid and expanded. All forms of polystyrene are designated by polymer identification code CLAW Environmental currently specialises in expanded polystyrene (EPS) but has the capacity to process some forms of rigid polystyrene.
• drumMUSTER, triple rinsed plastic drums. CLAW Environmental is a registered processor of drumMUSTER and currently the only West Australian company actively collecting and processing containers. If you are interested in drumMUSTER, check out www.drummuster.com.au or contact us for more information.

Clean plastic bottles with the 10c return information can be taken to Return It - Cash For Containers in Shenton Park.

The Town is pleased to support Fair Game by having two recycle and donate bins to collect pre-loved sporting equipment. The bins are located at the Town's Administration Centre - 1 Bold Park Drive, Floreat, and Cambridge Library - 99 The Boulevard, Floreat.

For further information click here 

The Give Write Stationery recycling programme is currently paused. Please watch this page for updates.

You can donate lightly used stationery to your local:

• preschools
• daycare centers
• primary schools
• Boy Scout or Girl Scout troops
• school teachers (particularly elementary teachers or art teachers)
• church nurseries
• nursing home/senior center activities directors

We recommend calling first before taking a donation to a local organisation such as those listed above. Make sure they need/want what you have to offer. 

Terracycle Australia have public drop-off points for plastic mechanical pencils, pens, markers, highlighters, pen soft packaging, empty correction fluid pots and correction fluid tape, using the BIC's Best in Class Recycling Program.

Give Write is a Wembley-based Not-for-Profit which takes donations of new or pre-loved school stationery to recycle, repackage and re-gift to kids in need in WA who are starting the school year with nothing.

No lever arch folders please.

Find out more about Give Write

Recycle your household aerosol cans including deodorant, hairspray, cooking oil spray, insect spray, cleaning products, garage and vehicle products and bathroom sprays.

Make sure cans are empty and intact. 

Drop off your aerosol cans at the Town's Administration Centre - 1 Bold Park Drive, Floreat, for recycling. 

You can also drop off your aerosol cans at the West Metro Recycling Centre for FREE.

The Town's X-Ray recycler, Ecocycle, has an environmentally friendly silver recovery process that helps protect our waterways and environment.

Residents can use the bins to safely dispose of their X-Rays at the following sites:

• Cambridge Library
• Town of Cambridge Administration Centre
• Amcal Pharmacy Floreat Forum
• Wembley Community Centre

• Recycle your toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes at the Town of Cambridge Administration Centre at 1 Bold Park Drive, Floreat.

• Recycle your non-reusable, aluminium coffee pods at the Town of Cambridge Administration Centre at 1 Bold Park Drive, Floreat. Please note that plastic coffee pods and compostable coffee pods are not accepted.

For details on a variety of waste minimisation workshops and events, including composting and growing your own, reducing and reusing, check out the What's On page.