The Recycle Hub

City of Launceston's new recycling hub, located at customer service centre at the council Town Hall, offers the public an easy and free option for up-cycling and recycling items that are not able to be recycled through a kerbside recycling collection.

 Items include mobile phones, batteries, printer cartridges, small e-waste items, digital cameras, plastic terracycle packaging like toothpaste tubes, unwanted medical x-rays, plastic bread tags, aluminium coffee pods, CD's & DVD's and even eye glasses. Explore how your items will be recycled and re-purposed through the information below. 

 

 

Mobile Phones

Did you know that there are over 23 million unused mobile phones in people's homes in Australia? It is estimated that only 12% of mobile phones are recycled.

Batteries

When dumped in landfill, batteries can leak a range of toxic substances, including lead, mercury and cadmium, into the environment.

E-Waste

E-waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world yet in Australia only approximately 35% of this material is being recycled.

Printer Cartridges

Printer cartridges are made up of a complex mix of plastics, metal, inks and toners and thus represent a significant investment in resources. When they are disposed of into landfill these resources are lost and influence negatively on our environment.

Eye Glasses

The Lions Club Australia receive requests from humanitarian organisations either travelling to a third world country or supplying shipping container loads of suitable humanitarian aid from Australia to groups in the third world.

X-Rays

The backing film that gives X-rays their strength is made from a plastic similar to the type used in soft drink and fruit juice bottles. It goes into a commodity plastic recycling stream and could end up in products ranging from shampoo bottles to polyester fleece clothing.

CD's & DVD's

The CD's & DVD's are shredded to separate the aluminium and the polycarbonate which are both used for further manufacturing.

Oral Care Products

Once collected, the tubes and brushes are separated by composition, shredded and melted into hard plastic that can be remoulded to make new recycled products.

Bread Tags

Bread tags have many recycling purposes - from creating door knobs to bowls, they can be recycled to create a range of new products!

Nespresso - Aluminium Coffee pods

Nespresso aluminium coffee capsules that are recycled with Nespresso are sent to a specialist recycling plant based in Nowra, NSW.

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