Waste Disposal
The environmental impacts of waste disposal are becoming increasingly more apparent.
Australians generate 4 times as much trash compared to 1960, and while recycling rates have increased to 34%, there is still a lot of trash being thrown away by consumers every day.
Companies are also generating a lot of waste due to expansion and production.
The world is producing more and more waste. This is a serious problem because the environment cannot cope with it.
In order to solve this problem, we need to find ways to reduce the amount of waste that we produce in the first place. This can be done by reducing our consumption and by recycling what we don’t use.
This is where Durable Recycling enter the picture. We are a One-stop-Recycling Centre in Southern Adelaide.
Our Waste Disposal Services
Green Waste
Garden waste only including branches, leaves, grass and clippings.
General Waste
- Household waste (odds and end, appliances, furniture, rubbish, garden waste)
- Office waste
- Light construction waste (wood, gyprock, metal)
Quarry / Rubble
- Concrete
- Bricks
- Pavers
- Ceramic floor tiles
- Roof tiles
C & D Waste
Mixed heavy waste, allowing mixed with concrete, bricks, soil, rock, tiles, pavers, wire and can also include general waste and green waste.
TV Recycling
We provide Australian householders and small business with access to recycling services for televisions and computers.
Televisions and computers contain materials which are hazardous both to humans and the environment when disposed of inappropriately. There are penalties for dumping of these products, including outside collection sites and charity bins.
Unwanted televisions and computers can be recycled now by Durable Recycling.
Paper & Cardboard Recycling
Paper & cardboard is one of the simplest products to recycle and by maximising our reuse of this material we can all reduce the number of trees being felled to create new products. With the rising cost of landfill, recycling your papaer & cardboard makes perfect sense.
Old Clothing Donation
Durable Recycling is a Charity Donation Bank of Vinnies.
Decided it’s time to declutter?
Or the kids have outgrown their clothes, but they’re still in excellent condition?
By donating your pre-loved items to Vinnies they will get a new life, support Australians doing it tough and reduce landfill and the impact on the environment. Vinnies shops need your great quality items to help fund Vinnies programs across the country that support 1.3 million vulnerable Australians each year.
Thank you so much for your wonderful donations!
What can I donte?
When considering whether something can be donated to Vinnies, our rule of thumb is if you’d give it to a friend, then it’s ok to give to Vinnies.
- Men’s women’s and children’s clothing and accessories
- Homewares, including manchester
- Kids toys
You can also place donations into the donation bin provided. If they are full, please do not leave donations outside the bins as they are likely to get damaged due to the weather/environment and we will ahve to take them to landfill.
Ink and Toner Cartridges Recycling
Printer catridges are made up of a complex combination of plastics, metals, foam, ink and toner. Throwing them into landfill represents a waste of resources and contributes to the growing problem of electronic waste. By recycling your cartridges you are helping to reduce this waste.
‘Cartridges 4 Planet Ark‘ is an innovative recycling program that provides Asutralians with a free, easy and environmentally accredited way to recycle their used printer cartridges.
As a public drop point of Cartridges 4 Planet Ark, we provide free drop off services for all inkjet cartridges, toner cartridges and toner.
Tyre Recycling
Currently, thousands of tonnes of scrap tyres are illegally dumped every year and not only cost millions of dollars annually but also have placed people’s lives and wellbeing in jeopardy by extreme fire hazards, risk of spreading dengue fever and toxic pollution.
Recycling tyres can recover 85% of the rubber and 95% of the steel used to make a new tyre, can offset <60% of the Greenhouse Gases emitted to make new tyres.
With the support of tyre cycle (a national tyre recycler) Durable Recycling is happy to accept all types, from motorcycle all the way to large tractor tyres.
Gas Bottles Recycling
We provide service for gas bottles/cylinders & LPG tanks.
Only exception is if bottle/cylinders/tanks have all valves removed as well as holes drilled through the bottom of them, we may buy as steel upon inspection.
Waste Paint Collection
Durable Recycling is a waste paint collection sites of Paintback.
DIY and trade painters take their unwanted paint and packaging to a Paintback site.
Paintback accepts up to 100 litres per visit stowed in containers of up to 20 litres.
The unwanted paint and packaging is stored at the collection point ready for Paintback to pick it up.
Paintback transport it from the collection point for treatment. The packaging any waste liquid are separated.
The container are recycled, subject to contamination.
The solvent paint is used as an alternative energy source. Water is separated from acrylic paint, with the by-product used in a variety of industrial applications, significantly reducing landfill.
Our R&D program aims to improve the current resource recovery towards 100% diversion from landfill and movement up the waste hierarchy.
What is Paintback?
Paintback is a waste paint and packaging collection scheme for architectural and decorative paint. It aims to divert waste paint and packaging from landfill.
Paintback is an industry initiative to divert architectural and decorative waste paint from landfill. Run as an independent, not-for-profit company it will collect and treat waste paint through participating sites around Australia.
It is the responsible way for households and professional painters to dispose of left-over paint and packaging.
What happens to the waste paint?
The waste paint and packaging is stored at the collection point ready for Paintback to pick it up.Paintback transports it from the collection point for treatment.
The packaging and waste liquid are separated.
The containers are recycled.
Waste Paint is treated in a number of ways including energy recovery for solvent and liquid/solid separation for water-based paint, significantly minimising landfill over current practices.
Accepted products
Paintback accepts a maximum of 100 litres in volume per visit. This must be carried in secured containers no larger than 20 litres.
What is drumMuster?
drumMUSTER Provides Australian agricultural and veterinary chemical users with a recycling pathway for eligible empty agvet chemical containers.
There are over 810 drumMUSTER collection sites available across Australia where you can bring in your empty, clean eligible agvet chemical containers to be collected, processed and recycled.
Durable Recycling is a collection site of drumMuster
Eligible Containers
drumMUSTER is specially designed for the disposal of eligible, cleaned agvet chemical containers.
drumMUSTER collects eligible non-returnable metal or plastic containers above one litre/kilogram and up to 205 litre/ kilogram in declared content in the packaging of crop production and animal health products used for:
• Agricultural and livestock production
• Industrial and recreational pest and weed control
• Forestry
• Household pest control operations
• Similar activities conducted by government authorities.
Participating manufacturers are identified by the inclusion of the eligible drumMUSTER container logo on their eligible containers.
The logo can be displayed on the chemical label, embossed into the container wall or applied as a sticker to the container.
Containers not displaying this logo may be from non-participating manufacturers and will not be accepted into the program.