How to Prepare for Your Recycling Pick Up
Preparing for your pick up takes just a few minutes...
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We appreciate you taking time to prepare your items. It keeps everyone safe, protects your data, and ensures we can recycle as much as possible.
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In Case You're Wondering...
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We can't take plastic bags or Styrofoam.
Please remove them from all items. This includes the little plastic bags on cords or cables. We can't recycle plastic bags or Styrofoam.
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For Film or X-rays
Remove all reports, CDs or other papers from the folder. Group all X-rays in one or a few folders or in another bag. We will leave the folders as we do not recycle paper.
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Please do not leave multiple X-rays in individual folders. We often are going to 10-20 houses in a run. If we have to remove the X-rays from each house that adds hours to our drive time.
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Do I need to drill my hard drive to protect the data?
No need to drill a hole or take apart your data device. Drilling releases fine particles and even vapours from lead, cadmium and other toxins. For your safety please don't drill.
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Any item containing data that can be reused is reset or securely wiped using Active@KillDisk.
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Items that can't be reused are fully shredded and smelted to become raw materials for manufacturing. No data survives either process.
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Have more items than you originally booked?
No problem! Feel free to add anything from our list. If it ends up being 1/4 a van load or more send us a text or email to let us know.
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Wondering why we left your items?
If an item is left out that we can't recycle, we'll simply leave it behind.
There are logistical, safety and legal reasons why we can't take some of those items. The ones on our list are what we're able to accept. Other small household appliances can be added to the ones on our list. See our FAQ page for a more detailed explanation.
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Why should I box things if you leave the cardboard boxes? Can I use bags?
The cardboard boxes helps keep small items together. It also protects your items from being stolen, crawled into by bugs, rained on or peed on by animals.
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If you want to use plastic bags or boxes, we'll leave them behind as we bring reusable buckets.
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.Sometimes we run out of buckets and so having the cardboard as a back up is also useful.
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​More about preparation:
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Make sure we can take the items you are leaving out. Our FAQ page has all the details.
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Wipe off any dust and dirt - We carry by hand so this keeps dirt off our clothes and vehicles, and dust out of our lungs.
Wiping down items to remove dust, dirt and cobwebs helps keep toxins off our clothes and out of our lungs. We appreciate your taking a moment to give things a wipe.
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Unlock
Often data containing items such as laptops, mobiles or desktops can be reused once the data is destroyed. We do this as a matter of procedure. But, if an items is locked in a cloud account or company bios, it can only be used for parts or fully recycled.
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If you remove your device from your cloud locked, then reset it, that device has more of a chance of being reused. Click here for instructions for your phones.
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​Box or Bag
Please protect items from rain. Remember, we lift them by hand so wear the wet. As well, electronics will rust or get damaged from wet, dirt or debris.
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Leave items on your front doorstep, carport or garage.
Bugs like cockroaches and spiders (including Redbacks) crawl inside when items are left out in the elements. Animals like Possums also wee on items left out.
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We do not pick up items left on the verge. People will often assume they are free for the taking. But, it is illegal dumping to place anything on the verge, so leave everything on your property, close to your front doorstep, garage or in your carpark.
Live in a steep property? If you have a plastic covered tub that you can leave at the end of your driveway or in your garage, we will leave it behind.
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Please have a look around if you only have one item. We would appreciate it. Otherwise, we will hold the booking until we have another one nearby that will cover costs of transport.
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As a free service we have to pay for costs such as fuel, tolls and all the things involved in running a business. We have to cover those costs to be able to stay in operation.
Our list of items are things that can be reused and so one or two will cover our costs and enable us to remain a free service.
Items not on our list that we also take actually cost us to transport. Many of them such as toasters have no value or so little that they won't cover costs.
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