These businesses and organisations accept types of wastes. Specific details of waste material and whether household or non-household waste is accepted should be checked with the business listed.
For additions or changes to the list, please contact us
as we share this list regularly with Plastic Free Cairns and other #zerowaste initiatives.
We are working with Waste Entrepreneurs and will be updating this page regularly so please revisit soon.
Because we will be asking for it from our Regional Council through their Sustainability and Waste teams. When we can see what's an issue we can add it to the puzzle and then work out whether supply changes are coming which will see that waste reduce in the next 8 years or we identify new waste opportunities.
Also we will be asking you to film yourself using the app and sharing your challenges with us by using the hashtag #tryingtogetsorted
We can then curate your feedback here, on the bottom of this page from FB, Insta either one will do.
Medalfield
Newport Recycling
North Queensland Recycling Agents
Sims Metal Management
Shred-X - Delete all data first.
Newport Recycling
Sims Metal Management
Battery World
Newport Recycling
North Queensland Recycling Agents
Cairns libraries (domestic quantities of household batteries)
Cairns Regional Council Waste and Recycling Transfer Stations
Cairns Regional Council, Spence Street
Under CC = credit card size, these can not be put in the Yellow Lid bin or Containers For Change but they do not go to waste. Metal or Plastic. Drop them off to Wellness Embodied
Cairns Regional Council Waste and Recycling Transfer Stations
Sims Metal Management
Shred-X. Delete all data first at Townsville depot.
Officeworks (computers and parts).
Cairns Regional Council Waste and Recycling Transfer Stations
E-Waste Recycling Australia
Newport Recycling
North Queensland Recycling Agents
Newport Recycling
Sims Metal Management
Sims Metal Management
Cairns Regional Council Waste and Recycling Transfer Stations
Battery World
Sims Metal Management
North Queensland Recycling Agents.
Sims Metal Management.
Newport Recycling
North Queensland Recycling Agents
North Qld Recycling Agents
Cairns Regional Council Waste and Recycling Transfer Stations (to 100 litres)
North Queensland Recycling Agents
Nil at this time
Battery World
Cairns Regional Council Waste and Recycling Transfer Stations
Supermarkets or https://enviroland.com.au/
North Queensland Recycling Agents
For residents please take this to Coles, we find that it usually takes about 7 weeks to fill up a plastic bag. Commercial solutions: https://enviroland.com.au/
Nil at this time
Nil at this time
Officeworks
Sims Metal Management
Sims Metal Management
Sims Metal Management.
Medalfield
Newport Recycling
List them on FB market place as there are lots of people in Cairns who will use them. Or arrange collection with https://enviroland.com.au/
Sims Metal Management
Cairns Regional Council Waste and Recycling Transfer Stations
E-Waste Recycling Australia
Sims Metal Management
These go into your Yellow Lid bin. This provides glass for PNQ who use this to create road base. It replaces sand, something we are running short of, believe it or not. Send it to Council to process.
Circular Economy Far North Queensland is committed to making the transition to a Circular Economy that aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals and supporting Australian Innovation.
We partner with existing awesome humans to help bring Circular Economy Framework to life in FNQ. And share how we are doing it along the way. #bettertogether
Circular Economy FNQ acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the Lands on which we work and pay our respects to Indigenous Elders past, present, and emerging. We support the Uluru Statement from the Heart to achieve justice, recognition and respect for First Nations people and a referendum to enshrine a First Nations Voice in the Constitution