Community Recycling Centre (CRC) at Scone Waste Management Facility

Upper Hunter Shire residents may safely dispose of household problem waste.

You can drop off for free:

• Gas bottles
• Fire extinguishers
• Paint
• Fluoro globes and tubes
• car batteries
• household batteries
• motor oils
• other oils
• Smoke detectors

The CRC is located at Scone Waste Management Facility. 

Visit your Community Recycling Centre today and help build a healthy environment for our future.

Not all household waste can be put in your kerbside bins. Community Recycling Centres offer a FREE and EASY solution for the disposal of household problem waste such as paints, gas bottles, motor oils, batteries, smoke detectors and fluorescent globes and tubes.

Many of these materials can be reused and recycled if processed correctly. Recycling helps our environment because it saves water, energy and natural resources.

How to recycle other household items:

1. Visit www.cleanout.com.au to find your nearest CleanOut event to safely dispose of your household chemicals.
2. Return unwanted or out-dated medicine to your local pharmacy for safe disposal
3. Recycle old mobile phones at Australia Post shops or look for the green Mobile Muster drop off bins at your local bank or phone shop.
4. Drop off your used or empty laser and inkjet cartidges at participating Australia Post, Officeworks, JB Hi-Fi and Cartridge World stores.
5. Visit the Scone CRC to drop of TVs, computers or printers for electronic recycling.
6. Business are not eligible to use the Community Recycling Centre. Visit businessrecycling.com.au to find out how to recycle your business waste.
   

For more information go to www.epa.nsw.gov.au/recyclingcentres

The CRC has been established by Upper Hunter Shire Council with support from the NSW Government’s Waste Less, Recycle More initiative.