Types of Waste and how they can be Safely disposed of

2 January 2018

Skip bin services play an important role in proper waste management throughout Australia. If it were not for skip bins, many homes and businesses would struggle to keep their premises clean and to properly dispose of unwanted items.

You also play an important role in the proper use of skip bins. It is necessary to know what type of waste you can dispose of in skip bins so that you avoid additional charges for placing incorrect materials. Putting the right waste in the right place also ensures that you play your role in facilitating healthy and efficient waste disposal techniques.

To get you on the right track, here are the most common types of waste and how you should safely dispose of them in skip bins.

General Waste

If you hire a skip bin that is designed for general waste, you can safely place the following materials in there:

• Household items such as toys, papers, kitchen ware, and clothes
• Light commercial waste products such as stationery, office furniture, and cardboard
• Common types of home furniture and appliances. These may include fridges, wardrobes, washing machines, and microwave ovens.
• Light garden vegetation such as grass clippings, twigs and shrubs.

In a general waste skip bin, you should not place items such as heavy construction materials (including bricks, sand, and clay), tree trunks, synthetic glass, and hazardous materials such as asbestos, liquids and chemicals.

Green Waste

When you hire green waste bins from skip bins services, you should keep in mind the following items you can and cannot put in there:

What you can dispose:

• Light garden vegetation such as shrubs, grass and twigs
• Leaves and small branches from garden trees
• Woodchips with no soil attached to them
• Smaller tree trunk and untreated timber

In a green waste skip bin, avoid disposing the following items:

• Bricks, concrete, soil, rocks and stone/sand
• Large tree trunks of over 150mm in diameter
• Hazardous materials (asbestos, chemicals, insulation materials, etc.)

Heavy waste

Skip bin services also offer waste bins for heavy materials used in construction, renovation and demolitions. Here are some of the items you can safely put in a heavy waste skip bin:

• Hard waste such as bricks, concrete and tiles
• Domestic and commercial demolition items, including stone, binders, wood, metal and steel
• Treated timber products such as decking, floorboards and retaining walls.

Heavy waste bin should still not contain soils such as sand and clay or synthetic glass. Large tree trunks of over 300mm diameter should also not be included in this bin.