Towards Zero-Waste
At PCF we advocate for a circular economy in which systems mimic those in nature; all materials are reused and reabsorbed to support life to come. We support the production and consumption of high-quality goods that can be reused, repurposed, and repaired to support a good quality of life for both current and future generations. We aim to foster a culture that recognises the true value of all planetary resources and uses them sparingly.
We promote the five R’s of Refusing, Reducing, Reusing, Recycling and Restoring to contribute to building a regenerative and circular economy. We maintain a community recycling facility to assist our community to reduce their ecological footprint. We collect 22 different items that aren’t collected in curbside waste schemes and distribute them to organisations that reuse or recycle them, with over 30,000 items diverted from landfill each year.
What you can drop off at our Community Recycling Hub
As a way to help the people of Perth live kinder lives we operate a collection hub for items that can be recycled, but not through your yellow-top bin.
You are welcome to use this community facility by:
- Bringing only the items listed in this document and putting them in the correct bin
- Bringing small amounts at a time (think household, not workplace or classroom quantities)
- Checking this page before you come for what we’re currently collecting (it changes all the time!)
- Please consider if you need to use these products in the future – avoidance is better than recycling and will save you a trip next time!
Be a Recycling Legend and only bring exactly what we ask for. If bins are contaminated by things we don’t collect:
- The whole collection (yours and everyone else’s items) may get dumped in landfill and City Farm has to pay for that
- A volunteer will have to sort through everything to take out the contaminants – this can take up to 5 hours for just one type of coffee pod if someone has dumped the wrong pods.. not a fun job!
Recyclers are extremely particular about what they accept and put through their machines. Don’t assume that because an item looks similar to things we collect that it can be added in. Careless use of this hub could mean thousands of items in landfill due to your contaiminating items.
Please download this PDF document and keep it on hand at home.
There are lots of picture examples of the correct items in the PDF. If you are collecting from a couple of people, perhaps you could print out these posters to put up!
Items we are currently collecting:
| AIR FRESHENING ITEMS | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| Plug in air fresheners & refills | |
| Clip-on car air fresheners & refills | |
| Plastic outer packaging from air freshening products | |
| Air freshener spray bottles (NOT CANS) | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| NO AEROSOL CANS OF ANY SORT (NO deodorant, NO hairspray, NO shaving cream, NO air freshener, etc.) | |
| No other household cleaning bottle, spray bottle, pump or trigger head | |
| No soap bottles or pump bottles | |
| No hair or body care bottles and packaging | |
| No perfume, deodorant, or haircare items | |
| METAL CAPS & RINGPULLS | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| Steel bottle caps (beer bottles) | |
| Aluminium bottle tops (like wine bottle tops) | |
| Metal jar lids | |
| Ring pulls from drink cans or food cans (NOT THE WHOLE LID) | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| No foil packaging from tablets | |
| No metal lids from food cans (eg, not the top from your tinned tomatoes or pet food, only the ring pull) | |
| No springs, paper clips, bulldog clips, | |
| No fixings (screws, washers, allen keys) | |
| NO PLASTIC LIDS | |
| ONLY METAL BOTTLE CAPS, RING PULLS & LIDS | |
| PLASTIC BREADTAGS | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| ONLY PLASTIC breatags | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| No cardboard tags | |
| No plastic clips or twist ties | |
| No cable ties | |
| No plastic/disposable cutlery | |
| CDs & DVDs (disks only!) | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| ONLY CD/DVD DISCS | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| No CD or DVD cases (of any material) | |
| No cassette tapes | |
| No VHS tapes | |
| No floppy discs or USBs | |
| COFFEE PODS | |
| SEPARATED BY BRAND | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| L’Or capsules | |
| Moccona capsules | |
| Nescafe Dolce Gusto capsules | |
| Nespresso capsules | |
| illy capsules | |
| KEEP YOUR PODS SEPARATED BY BRAND. EACH BRAND HAS ITS OWN DRAWER | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| DO NOT bring in any other coffee capsule brand, even if it is the same size as the ones listed, even if it fits the same machine | |
| NO WOOLWORTHS BRAND 'COMPATIBLE' PODS | |
| NO COLES BRAND 'COMPATIBLE' PODS | |
| NO LAVAZZA PODS | |
| NO CAMPOS PODS | |
| NO VITTORIA PODS | |
| NO ESPRESSOTORIA PODS | |
| NO PRIMO CAFFE PODS | |
| - These accepted brands above fund the recycling of their own products… ie; Nespresso pay Terracycle to recycle Nespresso pods. | |
| - If our collection drawers are mixed with other brands of pods (even if they fit your Nespresso machine) we cannot sort through them individually. YOU might be the reason that the entire drawer (14kg of pods) goes into landfill | |
| - Please take note of the brand that you’re buying and make sure to ONLY put pods from the brands listed in the CORRECT DRAWER | |
| Purchasing the brands that can be recycled is a great way to support companies taking the right steps towards being sustainable | |
| CORKS | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| ONLY CORKS | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| No corks with lids attached. No wire cages | |
| CRAFT ITEMS | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| Craft items in good usable condition, eg: | |
| Working pencils, pens, texters | |
| Ribbon, wool, string | |
| Beads, glitter, jewellery making items | |
| Decorative Paper, scrapbooking materials, stickers, etc | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| Please do not dump broken or unusable items in this drawer. It is a collection for craft items that you’re not longer using | |
| NO ITEMS THAT YOU DEEM 'COULD' be upcycled/used for a project – eg. do not drop off milk bottle lids or toilet rolls | |
| USEABLE CRAFT ITEMS ONLY | |
| DISHWASHING ITEMS & PACKAGING | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| Dishwashing liquid bottles and caps | |
| Dishwashing tablet flexible packaging | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| No shampoo, hand soap or beauty products | |
| No other household cleaning bottles or packaging | |
| No aerosol cans of any sort | |
| No haircare, body care or skincare packaging | |
| No medicine packaging | |
| No perfume, deodorant, or haircare items | |
| No hand soap bottles or pump bottles | |
| FACE CARE & HAIR CARE ITEMS ARE ACCEPTED - BUT PUT THESE IN THE CORRECT DRAWERS - NOT THIS ONE | |
| FLUORO GLOBES & TUBES | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| Fluoro light globes and light tubes | |
| Please see examples of fluoro lights here | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| NO LED globes (they look like this) | |
| NO incandescent globes (these have a filament a look like this) | |
| NO halogen globes (which look like this) | |
| NO fairy lights | |
| MOBILE PHONES | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| ONLY MOBILE PHONES. Any age | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| No Tablets, iPads or Navmans | |
| No speakers, MP3s or audio players | |
| No headphones, chargine cables or wall plugs | |
| No outer packaging/boxes for phones | |
| PRINTER CARTRIDGES | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| Printer cartridges from SMALL, HOUSEHOLD printers ONLY | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| No cartridges from commercial printers | |
| No cartridges from your school or office printer | |
| No cartridges from large photocopy machines | |
| DENTAL PRODUCTS | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| Standard toothbrushes | |
| Electric toothbrush HEADS ONLY | |
| Toothpaste tubes and caps | |
| Floss containers | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| No cardboard or paper packaging | |
| No plastic packaging | |
| No hand, body care or lotion tubes | |
| No sunscreen tubes | |
| No beauty product packaging of any sort | |
| No mouthwash packaging/bottles | |
| RAZORS & PACKAGING | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| Refillable & disposable razors and blades | |
| Rigid or soft plastic packaging FROM RAZORS OR RAZOR BLADES ONLY | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| No paper or cardboard | |
| No soft packaging or any sort of packaging from any other item— FROM RAZORS ONLY | |
| No wax removal items of packaging | |
| No hair removal items of packaging | |
| No shaving cream bottles, cans or packaging | |
| E-WASTE | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| Computer towers | |
| Laptops and chargers | |
| Electrical and charging cords | |
| Computer and data cables | |
| Computer mice and keyboards | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| No screens/computer monitors | |
| No kitchen or household appliances - NO KETTLES, NO TOASTERS, NO IRONS, NO SCALES | |
| No remotes or speakers | |
| No iPads, iPods, tables, navman devices | |
| No lighting sets or wall lights | |
| No TVs or screens of any type | |
| No speakers or audio equipment | |
| No fairy lights | |
| No CDs, DVDs, USBs, floppy disks or VHS | |
| HAIR CARE PACKAGING | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| HAIR product jars & lids | |
| HAIR product tubes, bottles, pumps | |
| Black or clear gloves from hair colouring packs | |
| Shampoo & conditioner bottles | |
| Body care packaging can be recycled IN THE OTHER LABELLED DRAWER | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| No hand soap bottles or pumps | |
| No body lotion or shower gel bottles or lids | |
| No medicinal cream or lotion tubes or bottles | |
| NO AEROSOL OR SPRAY CANS AT ALL | |
| No shaving cream bottles, cans or packaging | |
| No household cleaning bottles, pumps, sprays or packaging of any sort | |
| ONLY BOTTLES, TUBES & JARS THAT HAIR CARE PRODUCTS HAVE COME OUT OF PLEASE. | |
| (FACE) SKIN CARE PACKAGING | |
| PLEASE REMOVE EXCESS PRODUCT - RINSE OUT, CUT TUBES & WASH, ETC | |
| YES PLEASE | ✓ |
| Plastic/glass pots & lids FROM SKIN CARE ITEMS | |
| Plastic tubes/pumps/nozzles FROM SKIN CARE ITEMS | |
| Glass bottles & droppers FROM SKIN CARE ITEMS | |
| SKIN CARE ITEMS: serums, moisturisers, cleansers, eye creams, toners, facemasks, night cream, exfoliating masks | |
| NO THANKS | ✗ |
| NO MAKEUP PRODUCTS/PACKAGING OF ANY SORT | |
| NO MAKEUP WIPES | |
| No hand or body wash/soap/lotion bottles or pumps | |
| No tanning products/bottles/tubes/sprays | |
| NO SUNSCREEN PRODUCTS OF ANY SORT | |
| No hand/foot creams | |
| NO AEROSOL OR SPRAY CANS OF ANY SORT | |
| No medicinal cream or lotion tubes or bottles | |
| No shaving cream bottles, cans or packaging | |
| NO MAKEUP BRUSHES/TOOLS/PADS | |
| No household cleaning bottles, pumps, sprays or packaging of any sort | |
If you have large quantities of any of these items please get in touch and we can direct you to the organisation we send that item to, who may be able to accept your collection directly.
Got something we don’t collect? Head to Recycle Right for a comprehensive list of what can be recycled where in W.A.