Be a GREAT Sort

Meet G - Gift to charity, swap or sell 

Unwanted, reusable things such as clothes and toys in good condition can be gifted. 

Virtually everything has a better place to go - we just all need to be GREAT sorts and treat landfill as the last resort.

Find your nearest charity store or donation bin at Charitable Recycling

You can swap, sell or gift your items using these platforms: 

• eBay
• Gumtree
• The Garage Sale Trail 
• Facebook Marketplace and Buy Nothing Groups 
• Freecycle pages

Meet R - Recycle 

Items can be recycled through your kerbside recycling bin or a recycling facility.

Recycle these 5 at home: 

• Paper
• Cardboard
• Cans
• Plastic
• Glass 

Keep it simple and recycle right. 

Be a GREAT sort in the kitchen by having a recycling tub next to the kitchen bin. In the kitchen, it is easy to separate, rinse and recycle. 

Meet E - Earth-Cycle food scraps and garden waste

The biggest way that GREAT Sorts reduce landfill waste is to EARTH-CYCLE food scraps and garden waste into compost at home

It’s easy to avoid sending food scraps and garden prunings to the landfill bin, where they don’t belong, by joining the backyard revolution of people composting at home. Your choices include  traditional composting, worm farming or bokashi.

Find out more in the Waste Sorted beginner's guide to composting.

If you don't have the space or time to compost at home, you can still earth-cycle by participating in a local ShareWaste program. 

Locals who wish to recycle their kitchen scraps connect with those who already utilise a compost bin, worm farm or are keeping chickens. Why not meet the neighbours and bond over compost? There is already a thriving community in the City of Gosnells.

Meet A - Avoid excess packaging

Some items can’t be recovered using gifting, recycling, Earth-cycling or taking to specialist drop-offs, but we can still do better than landfill by avoiding these items in the first place!

We can avoid these items by thinking about: 

• Alternatives to plastic food wrap like glass or stainless steel containers, beeswax wraps and reusable food covers
• Take your own water bottle out and refuse bottled water
• Avoid disposable straws, plates, cups and cutlery and keep a reusable set in your bag, glove box or pram.
• Reduce your food waste by checking your fridge, freezer and pantry before shopping. Also, why not try a pantry challenge to use up those odd purchases or gifts?

Meet T - Take to drop-off points 

There are specialists out there who recover items that cannot be put in the kerbside recycling bin. These items can be hazardous if placed in our yellow top bin, and they contaminate all our hard work .

These include:

• batteries
• light bulbs
• phones, TVs, and computer equipment
• broken electrical items
• hazardous waste like chemicals, gas and paint.

Taking these items to local drop-off points makes you a GREAT sort. 

More information on this can be found on the household hazardous waste page.