StickersDo you have waste that is too good to waste?

Have you ever had bins and skips full of materials that are too good to throw out? Why pay landfill fees to waste these valuable resources?

Schools, artists, community festivals, craftspeople and home handypeople could re-use offcuts, over-runs, left-overs, outdated stock, seconds and surplus equipment that currently go to landfill.   Re-use opportunities are limited only by the imagination!

Reverse Garbage collects clean materials that have a potential for creative re-use. We can supply suitable bins to your organisation and collect re-useable materials free of charge. This means that you reduce waste disposal costs, provide a valuable service to the community and help reduce the environmental impact of your business.

We currently collect discards from more than 200 businesses and industries around Brisbane, diverting over two tonnes of valuable resources from landfill each week. Collections are either on a regular schedule or when we're called out, depending on your needs.

Check out the list of materials in the items for sale section to get an idea of the sorts of materials that we regularly collect.  Please see below for items we are unable to accept.

If you think that you have something that would be better re-used than wasted, please call us on 07 3844 9744 or email us.

Materials we are not able to accept

  • MDF and chipboard
  • Ring binders and suspension files
  • Photocopiers and fax machines
  • Large household electrical appliances such as stoves and microwaves, fridges, clothes dryers and washing machines
  • Small household electrical appliances such as toasters, irons, coffee makers, hair dryers, etc
  • Stereos, tape players, video players and DVD players
  • Old light fittings
  • Incandescent lightbulbs
  • Used hats, bags, clothing and footwear
  • Kitchenware such as crockery, saucepans or plastic containers
  • Computers, printers, monitors, scanners, etc
  • Beds and mattresses
  • Used sheets, doona covers, towels, pillows
  • Large items of furniture such as lounge suites
  • Pianos
  • Large office desks
  • Stuffed toys
  • Polystyrene packaging (such as the stuff that comes around new computers)
  • Used cardboard boxes such as fruit boxes
  • Polystyrene vegetable boxes
  • Electric typewriters (we accept manual typewriters)
  • Aluminium windows
  • Venetian blinds (unless wooden), second-hand curtains and holland blinds
  • Encyclopedias and tacky magazines
  • Used greeting cards
  • Pamphlets, leaflets, fact sheets, letterhead etc
  • Disc boxes
  • Homemade cassette and video tapes
  • Used plastic or paper shopping bags
  • Shredded paper.

Unfortunately it is not possible for Reverse Garbage to accept everything that people and businesses have to offer.  Your local op shop or tip shop may accept some of the above items.  Some supermarkets will recycle your plastic shopping bags.