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Recycling with Marian Green: Founder of St Nic’s Recycling Hub

Marian Green established the St Nic’s Recycling Hub in Duncraig at the beginning of 2022. The Hub collects large volumes of recyclables each month from the community, that may otherwise have ended up in landfill. 

Putting waste in the right place

There are lots of recyclable materials that are not suitable to be placed into the recycling kerbside system and can be recycled through other sources. Since founding the Hub, Marian has worked hard in sourcing destination recyclers, running educational sessions with community groups, liaising with governments and interest groups, promoting the Hub through Facebook, and completing all the general administration tasks to keep the Hub running.  

A “Green” community effort

Marian can’t remember a time when she wasn’t volunteering and helping the community. Her parents inspired her efforts as they were always volunteering for different organisations throughout their lives. What motivates Marian with her efforts at the Hub are the amazing people from the community that she meets each Hub day.  

Marian believes we all have a responsibility to care for the planet, and creating St Nic’s Recycling Hub has been her way of upholding this responsibility and encouraging recycling throughout the community.  

You can recycle at the Hub on the 3rd Saturday of every month, 9am – 11am at St Nicolas Anglican Church, Cnr Poynter Drive & Beach Road, Duncraig.

What items can you recycle at the Hub?

  • Plastic lids and plastic bread tags.
  • Plastic plant pots and plant tags.
  • Oral care products.
  • Pens: including felt tips, highlighters, markers, mechanical pencils, correction tape, liquid paper.
  • Household batteries and printer cartridges.
  • E-waste and mobile phones.
  • Light globes.
  • Disposable razors.
  • Medication blister packs (with a donation to cover costs of recycling these).
  • Containers for Change: Donate your refund to St Nic’s by bringing along your 10c containers.

Marian’s tips for starting on your recycling journey

  1. Start small and build your way up. 
  2. Learn what can and can’t go in the recycling (yellow lid) kerbside bin. For further information, visit Recycling bin (yellow lid).
  3. Choose one more recyclable to divert from landfill. Once it becomes a habit, pick one more and then repeat! 

Get involved

If you have already nailed your recycling efforts at home and you want to further help recycling efforts for the community and the planet, residents can help out in many ways. 

A few ideas from Marian include: 

  • Start your own “Sub Hub”. These are recycling collection points within your community such as at a retirement village, childcare centre, school, sporting club or elsewhere. Collections are then brought to the St Nic’s Recycling Hub each month.  
  • Own a café? You could collect milk bottles and soft drink bottle lids or containers and deliver them to the Hub regularly. You can also donate your coffee granules to local community gardens or via Sharewaste. 
  • Prefer volunteering? St Nic’s Recycling Hub is always looking for people to help collect recyclables and deliver them to destination recyclers. 

For more information on how you can help Marian’s recycling movement, contact her via email. You can also follow St Nic’s Hub Facebook page.

For further information and about locations where items can be recycled, visit:

Additional recycling bin (Yellow lid bin)

If you consistently have more recycling waste than will fit in your bin, you can order an additional recycling bin for an extra fee.

The establishment fee ($74.00) and annual service fee ($56.00) for the first year is $130.00 and is payable upon application.  The annual fee thereafter will be added to the annual rates and charges.

Please note: The person applying for the additional bin needs to be the owner of the property or the managing agent.

What can I put in my Recycle Bin?

Want to order an additional recycling bin? please complete the form below.

Waste Services FAQs

What is included in the City’s annual waste service?

The annual waste refuse charge for residents include:

What are the three bins used for? 

  • Red for general household waste.
  • Lime green for green waste.
  • Yellow for recycling.

The City has aligned the waste service to the Australian Standard for bin lid colours. This is to aid source separation of waste and for each bin to be clearly identifiable.

What does the standard service look like?

  • One 140L (or upgraded 240L) red lid bin for general waste, emptied weekly.
  • One 240L yellow lid bin for recycling, emptied fortnightly.
  • One 240L lime green lid bin for garden organic waste, emptied fortnightly.

How does the kerbside collection service work? 

Each week, a standard service will see a household present two bins on the verge for collection:

  • The general waste bin (red lid) and recycling bin (yellow lid), or
  • The general waste bin (red lid) and garden organic bin (lime green lid).

Find your waste collection dates by visiting the City’s webpage.

Why do I have three bins? 

  • Give residents greater capacity for recycling garden organic waste in the lime green lid bin.
  • Reduces the environmental impacts of sending organic waste to landfills.
  • Reduce the impact of increasing landfill costs on the annual refuse charge to ratepayers.
  • Increases material recovery through the recycling bin.

My recycling bin is full every fortnight. What can I do?

The City offers a 50% larger recycling bin (360L) for free. Please complete the online form to register for the larger 360L recycling bin. If you are still generating a lot of recycling, you can also request an additional recycling bin by completing this online form. This can only be authorised by the property owner or agent (additional fees apply to annual rates).

I’m worried my waste won’t fit in the 140L general waste bin. What can I do?

Make sure all your recycling is placed in the yellow lid recycling bin and your green waste is placed in the lime green lid green waste bin. Come along to one of the City’s events where further information on how to reduce the waste created at home will be available. You can also upgrade the 140L general waste bin to a 240L bin (additional fees apply).

My 140L general waste bin is always full before collection day. What can I do?

The City encourages residents to become more sustainable and find ways to reduce the amount of waste they place in the waste bin. Households that have attempted to reduce their waste but still regularly overfill the 140L red lid general waste have the option to upgrade the 140L bin for a 240L general waste bin by completing the online form. Upgrades of the general waste bin can only be authorised by the property owner or agent (additional fees apply to annual rates).

Can I put my food waste in the garden organics bin?

No, the garden organics bin is for garden green waste only. Please only place loose garden organic waste in this bin.

My garden organics bin is full every fortnight. What can I do?

Additional green waste can be taken to the Wangara Greens Recycling Facility, 70 Motivation Drive, Wangara on Saturday – Sunday.  This is a free service using a greens tipping voucher, which can be downloaded on the City’s website. Fees may apply without a valid voucher. You can also request an additional garden organics bin for your property by completing the online form. This can only be authorised by the property owner or agent (additional fees apply to annual rates).

Can I have a bigger garden organics bin? 

No, as the weight limit on all bins is 70kg. Garden organic waste can be quite heavy, therefore the bin size is 240L in size. You can request an additional garden organics bin by completing the online form.

I am not sure where to put a certain type of material. Can you help me?

Check out the online Waste Disposal Guide. If you are still unsure, please give the City a call on 9400 4000.

Find waste collection dates

Enter your address in the box below to find your general waste (red lid), green waste (lime green lid) and recycling (yellow lid) bin collection days and green waste verge collection dates.

Please place your bins on the verge for collection by 6.00am on your collection day and return all bins to within your property line within 24hrs.

General Waste (red lid bin) collection days

Occurs weekly.

Red lid bin day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Suburb Duncraig, Edgewater, Marmion, Sorrento Kallaroo, Hillarys, Craigie, Padbury Warwick, Kingsley, Beldon, Greenwood Mullaloo, Ocean Reef, Heathridge, Woodvale Burns Beach, Joondalup, Kinross, Connolly, Iluka, Currambine

Recycling (yellow lid bin) collection day

Occurs fortnightly on the same day as the red lid bin collection day.

Yellow lid bin collection weeks
Week 1 Week 2
Burns Beach, Duncraig, Hillarys, Joondalup, Kallaroo, Kingsley, Kinross, Mullaloo, Ocean Reef, Warwick Beldon, Connolly, Craigie, Currambine, Edgewater, Greenwood, Heathridge, Iluka, Marmion, Padbury, Sorrento, Woodvale

Green waste (lime green lid bin) collection day

Occurs fortnightly on the same day as the red lid bin collection day.

Lime lid bin collection weeks
Week 1 Week 2
Beldon, Connolly, Craigie, Currambine, Edgewater, Greenwood, Heathridge, Iluka, Marmion, Padbury, Sorrento, Woodvale Burns Beach, Duncraig, Hillarys, Joondalup, Kallaroo, Kingsley, Kinross, Mullaloo, Ocean Reef, Warwick

 

Please note: There are no bin collections on Christmas Day, New Years Day and Good Friday – refer to the calendar in the Waste Guide below for altered days for these periods.

Waste collection information can also be found in your Waste Guide.

Bin services on public holidays

There are no bin collections on Christmas Day, New Years Day and Good Friday.

Good Friday 2024 bin collections will be on Easter Saturday (affecting Burns Beach, Joondalup, Kinross, Connolly, Currambine and Iluka residents only).

All other public holiday’s including; Australia Day, Labour Day, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Western Australia Day and King’s Birthday collections remain as normal.

Bulk green verge collection

Bulk green waste – City of Joondalup

Waste disposal information

Please refer to the Waste Disposal Guide to find out where to dispose of particular waste items.

Missed bins

If your bin was out for collection and missed/not collected please contact the City’s waste collection contractor Veolia on 9350 7196.

Reducing waste

Avoid – prevent waste in the first instance

  • Maintain and repair items rather than disposing of them
  • Grow your own fruit, vegetables, herbs and nuts at home
  • Purchase quality products that have no or minimal packaging.

Reduce – to produce less waste

  • Refuse single plastic e.g. coffee cups, produce bags
  • Purchase in bulk where possible
  • Say no to junk mail
  • Use beeswax wraps instead of cling wrap or foil
  • Only purchase what you need.

Reuse – use the same item more than once

  • Take your own reusable shopping and produce bags to the shops
  • Consider hosting a garage sale
  • Find creative ways to repurpose waste for practical purposes, art projects or gifts
  • Consider purchasing eco-friendly products made from recycled materials
  • Opt for reusable rather than disposable products, such as keep cups instead of disposable coffee cups, carry your own utensils to avoid single use knives, forks and spoons
  • Take reusable items to the REUSE shop at Tamala Park.

Recycle – converting waste materials into new materials and objects

  • Recycle all paper, cardboard, milk and juice cartons, glass bottles and jars, aluminium and steel cans, plastic bottles and containers in the yellow lid recycling bin
  • Green waste from the lime green lid is turned into compost
  • Place food or garden waste in a compost or worm farm at home
  • Take eligible containers to a Containers for Change drop off point
  • Clean and undamaged clothes can be donated to a local charity shop
  • Local schools can participate in a waste education program funded by the City of Joondalup, please visit the City’s Waste education page or call 9400 4077 for further information.

Please refer to the A-Z Waste Disposal Guide to ensure you are sorting your waste correctly.

Other useful resources

Where to recycle batteries and other items

Battery Recycling

City of Joondalup Libraries

Duncraig Joondalup Whitford Woodvale
Mobile phones √ √ √ √
Batteries  √ √ √ √
Printer cartridge √ √
Compact fluoro globes √ √
Corks √
Lego √ √ √ √
Spectacles √ √ √ √

Each library has purpose built recycle bins.

Other locations

Joondalup Customer Service Centre Tamala Park Officeworks Bunnings, Coles and Aldi Woolworths
Mobile phones  √ √ √
Batteries √ √ √ √
Printer cartridge √ √
Compact fluoro globes √
Long fluoros √

 

There are also many other drop-off points around locally. Use the B-Cycle website to find your closest drop off point.