Aerosol cans
Most aerosol packaging and cans (fly spray, deodorants, cooking oil) can be recycled in household recycling bin when empty. Gas burners aerosol used for camping stoves and barbeques (including butane gas cartridges and cans) are hazardous and cannot go in any household bin. These must be dropped off at the Resource Management Centres for safe disposal.
Disposal options
- Aerosol cans from fly sprays, deodorants, hair sprays and cooking oils can go in your recycling bin
- Drop off hazardous aerosols (containing butane, propane) at the hazardous waste collection point at:
- Refer to the hazardous waste webpage for limits
- For commercial quantities of butane aerosols find a business that specialise in hazardous waste disposal such as:
Why?
Gas burner aerosols contain environmentally harmful chemicals and accelerants that pose a safety and fire risk when compressed in trucks or processed through sorting and baling machinery. When they are disposed as hazardous waste, the chemicals can be safely managed, and the steel can be recycled.
Related items
This may include fly spray can; insect spray can; spray paint can; deodorant can; hair spray; cooking spray; WD40 can; gas burner aerosols; gas bbq cannisters; gas bbq camping stoves; soda-stream gas aerosols.