Community Recycling Centres have been designed to collect and appropriately dispose of household problem waste items. There are five locations in the Port Macquarie Hastings region where you can drop off your problem waste.
The video below is one of five videos that encourage the use of our local Community Recycling Centres (CRCs) focusing on one of the many types of waste that you can DROP OFF FOR FREE! This video share what you can do with your old gas bottles and what happens to them after you drop them off.
Did you know ...
- Broken, damaged or out-of-date gas bottles can be dropped for free at your local CRC.
- Gas still inside a gas bottle is captured and reused.
- Undamaged bottles are retested, restamped and moved back into the hire industry.
- Damaged gas bottled are punctured and recycled as scrap metal.
This video was created by Midwaste , in conjunction with a group of local regional councils including Port Macquarie Hasting Council, as part of a project funded by the NSW EPA Waste Less Recycle More waste levy