What goes in your bin matters!
Be a good sort! Click on the tiles below to learn more about what to put in each bin.
Trash talk
Got a question about what you can recycle locally? Ask our waste team!
The Recycling Process: Where Does It Really Go?
Our biggest offenders in recycling
Read below to find out more about how takeaway coffee cups and soft plastics mess up our recycling facilities.
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Takeaway coffee cups
Approximately 98% of disposable coffee cups have a plastic lining that can’t be easily separated from the paper, meaning the cups are often rejected as contaminated waste and end up in landfill.
Be a good sort: Put disposable coffee cups & lids in your red bin. Use a reusable cup for your coffee.
Soft plastics
Soft plastic bags and packaging like cling wrap, pasta packets, bread bags and biscuit trays should never be put in the yellow recycling bin. These items get caught in waste facility machinery causing contamination, damage and disruption to sorting.
Be a good sort: Put soft plastics in the red bin. Better still, reduce the purchase of soft plastics by choosing items with minimal packaging.
Want to learn more?
Here are some great programs, projects and tips to help with reducing our waste.
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Make bees wax wraps
Create your own eco-cleaning products
Cut food waste and save money
Rejuvenate your old bicycle
From kitchen scraps to compost
Take 3 for the sea
Tip fees & charges
Download a copy of our current Waste Management Centre fees and charges.
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and live, the Gathang-speaking people and pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who now reside in the MidCoast Council area. We extend our respect to elders past and present, and to all future cultural-knowledge holders.
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Email: haveyoursay@midcoast.nsw.gov.au
General enquiries - (02)7955 7777
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