Yellow-lid recycling bin

Three waste bins with coloured lids

Your yellow-lid recycling bin is collected fortnightly on the alternate week to your green-lid food and organics bin.

The following items can be put in this bin:

  • Paper, magazines, newspaper and junk mail
  • All types of cardboard, including egg cartons, greeting cards
  • Rigid plastic bottles and containers - rinsed and lids off
  • Paperboard juice and milk cartons - rinsed and flattened
  • Glass bottles and jars - rinsed and lids off
  • Steel and aluminium cans, foil scrunched into a fist-sized ball, and trays
  • Empty aerosol cans
  • Metal pots and pans
  • Plastic and metal lids contained within a larger container made from the same material.

For a complete list of what goes in yellow-lid recycling bin, visit whichbin.sa.gov.au

Download our waste and recycling guide (PDF 182.7 KB)