E-waste (computers, printers, modems, TV’s etc)
Electronic waste (e-waste) must not go in your household landfill or recycling bins. Batteries and printer cartridges must be removed before disposal.
Disposal options
- Give to a friend, donate to charity or sell online.
- If in good condition, drop off for free at The Green Shed at:
- Consider businesses who accept working and/or non-working computers and equipment for re-using and/or recycling:
- WV Technologies provides a secure disposal service for businesses. Fyshwick Ph: 1300 989 177
- Broken or damaged e-waste is accepted free as part of the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme. Batteries and printer cartridges must be removed before recycling. Drop off locations include:
Mitchell Resource Management Centre
- Items such as computers, printers (printer cartridges must be removed) and TV’s are accepted.
- Limit of 15 items per person apply (a keyboard, mouse and monitor equals one item).
- Mobile phones, smart watches and related accessories that do not have any resale value or do not work can be recycled via Mobile Muster located at telecommunications retail outlets in the ACT.
- Officeworks Bring IT Back program accept up to five items for recycling, including desktops, laptops, computer mice, monitors, printers (printer cartridges must be removed), scanners, multifunction printers, keyboards, computer power supplies, printed circuit boards, motherboards, network cards, disks and CD drives.
- Apple take back their own products for free recycling as part of their Apple GiveBack program.
- Circuit boards can be dropped off for free at:
Mitchell Resource Management Centre
- Limit of 20 for A4 size or smaller, and maximum 10 for up to A2 size.
- Printer cartridges can be recycled at Cartridges 4 Planet Ark drop off points such as Officeworks.
Why?
E-waste contains many valuable materials including aluminium, gold, silver and copper that can be extracted for reuse. It means that fewer raw materials need to be extracted and processed to make new products. Mobile Muster recovers 99% of materials in a mobile phone.