E-Waste

What is E-Waste

The term ‘e-waste’ refers to electronic or electrical item waste.

The items accepted in Council's e-waste collection are:

  • Computers, laptops and peripherals such as a modem, hard drive, mouse (batteries removed) and printer (cartridges removed)
  • Adaptors, cords and leads
  • Battery chargers
  • Cordless power tools (batteries removed)
  • Digital cameras (batteries removed)
  • Headphones/earphones (Earbuds are not accepted in e-waste but are accepted in the embedded batteries collection at the CRC)
  • Remote controls (batteries removed)
  • Sat nav systems
  • Stereos
  • Smart TVs
  • VHS/DVD/Blu Ray players

Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing contributors to our waste stream. Keeping e-waste out of landfill is important to protect the health of the environment and people, preserve landfill capacity and return valuable resources to productive use.

The items accepted in the e-waste collection are sent to Sydney to a processing facility for deconstruction and recycling.