Metal
Most metal household packaging can be placed in your recycling bin. Other metal items should be reused or recycled through specialist recycling where possible and not placed in household bins.
Disposal options
- Place metal household packaging in your recycling bin. This includes items such as empty food and drink containers. Check metal packaging page for disposal options.
- Items made of more than 80 percent metal can be dropped off for free in the metal recycling area at:
- Consider booking a free bulky waste collection. Follow the preparation requirements provided when booking (conditions apply).
- Small metal items, including screws, bolts and metal fittings, should be placed in a metal container (such as a biscuit tin) and dropped off at a resource management centre.
- Consider using a Zero Waste Warrior – tub (Lids4Kids) for small or hard‑to‑recycle household items (conditions and fees apply).
- Contact a business that specialise in the recycling of metal, such as:
ACT Recycling, Symonston
Sims Metal Management, Hume
Access Recycling, Fyshwick
Metal Mart, Fyshwick
- Do not dismantle items to separate metal components, such as removing springs from mattresses or furniture. Dismantled or loose metal parts can be sharp or unsafe to handle.
- Do not dump or leave items in public places or outside charities. This is illegal dumping and fines apply.
Related items
This may include metal bike parts; metal saucepans; pots and pans; tins; metal office equipment; metal drink bottles; steel parts; steel scraps; aluminium bike-parts; mower parts; mechanical parts; oil heaters; trampolines; keys; razor blades; barbeques; column heaters; screws; scissors; curtain tracks; scrap metal; lead flashing; gas heaters; offcuts; sheet metal.