The Sorting Depot, Commercial Waste Recovery

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The Sorting Depot accepts usable building materials and fixtures, as well as concrete and rubble, untreated timber, usable lengths of treated timber, and metals, cardboard, recyclable plastic and tyres. Over time, we also plan to develop markets and processing equipment for soft plastics, and other materials.

Please see the table below for waste acceptance criteria and banned items.

Acceptable waste includes, but is not limited to, materials that:  

• Contain no asbestos, and
• Are suitable for sorting, being free of liquids, putrescible (e.g. green or food waste, or soil) or hazardous material, and
• Are uncompacted – transported loose in skip bins, bulk transporters (e.g. those servicing flexi-bins), hook bins or similar containers, and
• Are not contained in bags or otherwise held together in a way that will make it difficult to separate or identify material through visual inspection.  

Acceptable waste may contain variable proportions of recoverable materials and landfill waste. Loads that are assessed at the weighbridge as containing no recoverable materials may not be accepted.  

The presence of prohibited waste, i.e., material that does not meet the acceptable waste criteria noted above, in a load deposited at the site will result in the entire load being defined as prohibited waste. Any load containing prohibited waste will incur a non-compliant load fee. 

Please see table below for fees and charges. Note: this is a commercial waste sorting facility for account customers only - no public access.

Yes, if you're a business and a customer of The Sorting Depot then you can bring pre-sorted loads of some materials as one single waste stream load (each material type needs to be delivered separately). We welcome this and have provided a cheaper price for these loads to encourage pre-sorting where it's possible. 

Single stream loads of treated timber are not accepted due to high costs to recycle.

Currently, 60 per cent, or about 45,000 tonnes, of the waste we send to the landfill is commercial and industrial waste.

There were limited options for the diversion of many commercial and industrial waste materials locally, meaning that disposal to landfill was often the cheapest and most convenient option for businesses. Conversations and surveys with construction companies and other businesses showed that the time and space to sort materials on their sites were also key barriers to them reducing waste.

Waste collectors also called for this facility in order to make local collection streams viable, establish local recycling markets and consolidate recyclable materials and landfill waste more cost effectively.