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ChemClear I Chipping / Mulching Service | Commercial Waste Collection Service | Fluorescent Light Recycling
Fridge Buy Back Program | Garage Sale - SecondHand Saturday | Household Chemical Collection | Medical Waste
Medicines (Return Unwanted Medicines) | Mobile Muster | North Ryde Transfer Station | Schools
ChemClear
ChemClear provides a safe and easy collection and disposal service for all agricultural and veterinary chemical users throughout Australia. ChemClear is a national industry funded initiative designed as a cost effective way to collect unused and unwanted currently registered chemicals.
Which chemicals are collected free of charge?
Chemicals that are still registered by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Manufacturers Association (APVMA) and are supplied by Avcare, VMDA or participating companies are collected free of charge.
Which chemicals attract a fee for disposal?
Unregistered or scheduled waste attracts a disposal fee per litre/kg.
Who can use the program?
ChemClear collects unwanted chemicals from agriculture and commercial livestock production, forestry, commercial pest and weed control operators, including local, state and federal government activities and resellers.
How can I register?
ChemClear is accepting bookings now. Visit the ChemClear website for further information, advice and bookings or contact 1800 008 182.
Chipping / Mulching Recycling Service (Green Waste) 
City of Ryde offers a free chipping and mulching service for local residents. We will come to you and your pruned branches will be chipped and bagged on your nature stripped and returned to you to use as mulch in your garden.
When is it available?
- Tuesdays and Wednesdays
- Maximum of 6 services per year per residence.
- There must be a 3 - 4 week break between your chipping and mulching services.
- Bookings essential
What to do
- Prior to pruning, book the service by calling Customer Service on 9952 8222.
- Leave the greenwaste material on the nature strip:
- stack in 2 metre lengths with large end of branches facing the gutter
- The truck will chip material on site and leave the chips for collection and distribution
Restrictions
- Load size – 2 box trailer loads (approx 3 cubic metres = 1m3 + 1m3 + 1m3)
- Tree/shrub limbs and trunks must be no more than 15cm / 6 inches diameter
- The following vegetation will not be accepted as they may damage or contaminate the chipper:
- vines
- succulents (cactus, banana palm)
- thorns (rose bushes, bouginvillea)
- tree stumps
- piles of leaves
- palm fronds/trunks or tree fern fronds/trunks
- fence palings or structural timbers
- lantana, bamboo or other noxious weeds
- Service is not available on RTA roads - please check when making your booking
Please note: All trees over 5 metres need Council approval before being trimmed. Refer to the Tree Management Brochure for further details.
Commercial Waste Collection Service
Businesses located within the City of Ryde do not pay for a waste service as part of the property rates. The City of Ryde however, does encourage all businesses to try to reduce the amount of landfill waste they produce and this is reflected in the competitively priced commercial waste collection service offered.
For users of this service, free information, resources, and on-site visits are available to help businesses reduce the amount of waste they produce.
Fluorescent Light Recycling
City of Ryde is now offering residents an opportunity to recycle their fluorescent light globes and tubes for free.
Residents can drop off their globes and tubes at:
- Civic Centre Customer Service area (1 Devlin Street, Top Ryde)
- Operations Centre reception (1 Constitution Road, Meadowbank)
Please bring along proof of that you live within the City of Ryde local government area (i.e. rates notice, drivers licence).
All sized fluorescent globes and tubes are accepted!
Australians consume between 50 and 60 million globes and tubes per year with less than 1% currently being recycled! Did you know that one fluorescent tube can pollute 30,000 litres of water?
Currently incandescent lights are being phased out and replaced with compact fluorescent lights. The latter utilises 20% of the energy to produce the same amount of light as the incandescent light globe and last four to ten times longer. Compact florescent lights however, contain a small amount of mercury that is an environmental hazard if not disposed of correctly.
What can be recycled?
The hazardous materials are re-used as clean and environmentally safe products. The mercury is re-used for dental amalgams, the aluminium in cast products, the glass for home insulation and phosphor powder for fertilisers.
Fridge Buyback Program
The Fridge Buyback program has collected over 3,500 fridges, reducing greenhouse emissions by over 30,000 tonnes and saving $5 million in electricity bills thanks to the outstanding response from the community.
Phase three of the Fridge Buyback program started in August 2008.
Please check the Fridge Buyback website or call 1800 708 401 to register to have your fridge picked up.
Residents that participate will receive up to $35.
Garage Sale - SecondHand Saturday
SecondHand Saturday is a garage sale held within your premises which takes place before a scheduled clean up collection. SecondHand Saturday is a great way to trade those items, stacked in the garage or under the house, no longer needed.
By participating in SecondHand Saturday residents’ are ensuring items are reused and saving resources needed to make new products and reducing the amount of unwanted items going to landfill.
We advertise your garage sale for free in the The Weekly Times. City of Ryde holds 5 Council Cleanups a year. The week prior to these residents are invited to hold a SecondHand Saturday event and then place items not sold, out for the clean up collection.
Complete the registration form and City of Ryde will advertise your SecondHand Saturday event as well as send you tips on how to host a successful garage sale and posters.
Please return the registration form no later than 14 days prior to your SecondHand Saturday event.
For exact dates of your clean up please see the Waste Collection Information and Calendars page.
Household Chemical Collection
Chemicals can be hazardous to the environment, your family, garbage collectors and sewerage system workers.
It is dangerous to throw household chemicals in the garbage, incinerator, down drains or sinks, down toilets or outside in the gully traps.
Chemicals and pesticides collected include:
- Acids and alkalis
- Batteries
- Fire extinguishers
- Flares
- Gas bottles
- Hobby chemicals
- Household cleaners
- Motor oils and fuels
- Paint
- Paint related products
- Pesticides and herbicides
- Pool chemicals Solvents
For more information download the Household Chemical Collection and CleanOut brochure.
This collection took place in 2008 with a record of 25.5 tonnes collected and 812 cars visiting the drop off point. For further information visit the CleanOut website.
Medical Waste - safe disposal of sharps and home dialysis materials
Fourteen pharmacies in the local council area cooperate with the City of Ryde to run a Medical Waste Collection Program.
Disposing of medical waste through domestic garbage creates a health and safety hazard for many people involved in waste management. Please consider their safety when deciding how to dispose of medical waste.
Residents can drop of syringes and dialysis material for free to any one of the participating pharmacies, where they are disposed of safely and correctly. Before delivering your syringes to the pharmacy ensure they are in a proper plastic sharps container, (available from either Diabetes Australia/MS Society or a needle and syringe exchange outlet), or are in a rigid plastic drink container with a screw top (milk bottle, coke bottle or juice bottle).
| Chemist |
Address |
Phone |
| The Estate Pharmacy |
5 Sager Place, East Ryde |
9878 3665 |
| Eastwood Centre Chemist |
Shop 43-44, 160 Rowe St, Eatswood |
9858 4858 |
| Five Ways Pharmacy |
77 Balaclava Rd, Eastwood |
9874 4820 |
| Boronia Park Pharmacy |
97 Pittwater Rd, Gladesville |
9817 3652 |
| Trafalgar Pharmacy |
Trafalgar Place, Marsfield |
9869 1081 |
| Meadowbank Pharmacy |
4/27 Bank St, Meadowbank |
9809 4350 |
| Mal Corbett Soul Pattinson Chemist |
Macquarie Shopping Centre, North Ryde |
9887 1215 |
| Stephenson's Pharmacy` |
136 Cox's Rd, North Ryde |
9888 7086 |
| Putney Village Pharmacy |
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9809 3408 |
| Midway Pharmacy |
119a North Rd, Ryde |
9878 3550 |
| Quarry Road Pharmacy |
128a Quarry Rd, Ryde |
9809 2572 |
| Ryde Pharmacy |
107 Blaxland Rd, Ryde |
9809 3294 |
| McDonalds Pharmacy |
977 Victoria Rd, West Ryde |
9809 2424 |
| O'Tooles Pharmacy |
Gladesville Shopping Centre, Flagstaff St, Gladesville |
9817 3180 |
Medicines - Return Unwanted Medicines (RUM)
All residents and visitors are encouraged to participate in the Return Unwanted Medicines (RUM) Program, to protect the City of Ryde's waterways, people and  environment.
More than 66.3 million prescribed goods are purchased in NSW every year compromising 40% of the national consumption. NSW consumption is growing by nearly 10% each year with a majority of these prescribed goods stored past their use by date. Out of date prescribed goods can become a potential hazard for children and adults when "shared" amongst family members, or stored in an area accessible by children.
In Australia, 50 children are admitted to hospital every week as a result of poisoning; many cases involve consumption of medicines not intended for them. More than 200 tonnes of out of date and unwanted medicines are inappropriately disposed of (in household garbage and down toilets and sinks) across Australia.
These inappropriately disposed of medicines become a significant and serious contributor to environmental issues such as water quality and contaminated land.
What can you do with these items?
Return out of date and unwanted medicines to any pharmacy in Australia, where they are collected and disposed of at high temperatures and are in no way recycled.
Please visit the Return Unwanted Medicines website for more information.
Mobile Muster
Mobile Muster is the official national recycling program of the mobile phone industry in Australia. Initiated voluntarily by the telecommunications industry in 1999 its overall aim is to prevent mobile phones ending up in landfill.
The program collects and recycles mobile phone handsets, batteries and accessories from a network of over 1,400 mobile phone retailers, local council, government agencies and business drop off points across Australia.
What can be recycled:
- Over 90% of mobile phone materials can be recovered and used for new products
- Batteries include nickel to make stainless steel, cobalt and cadmium batteries
- Circuit boards include small amounts of gold and silver that is used in jewellery and other applications
- Handset housings and casings include plastics that are shredded and used to make fence posts and pallets
- Accessories include plastics and metals that are shredded, sorted and then used to make new plastic or metal products.
Drop old mobile phones and accessories to the Customer Service Centre on Devlin St or to any of the five libraries across the
City of Ryde area.
For more information visit the Mobile Muster website.
North Ryde Transfer Station 
The North Ryde Waste Management Centre, located at Wicks Rd, North Ryde, accepts a wide range of recyclables free of charge.
| Open |
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| Monday - Friday |
6am - 4pm |
| Saturday - Sunday |
7am - 5pm |
Please note: the centre is closed Good Friday and Christmas Day.
For further information and disposal fees you can contact WSN Environmental Solutions on 1300 651 116 or visit the website.
Schools
Assistance Waste and Litter Audits
The City of Ryde provides assistance to schools in the City of Ryde who would like to undertake waste and litter audits as part of the Schools Environmental Management Plans (SEMPS). The audits are an excellent opportunity to visually demonstrate to students the amount of waste and litter we all produce. It highlight ways in which we can all help to reduce it.
Free Worm Farm and Compost Bins for City of Ryde Schools!
City of Ryde recognises the importance in reducing the amount of waste that goes to landfill and hence is setting up and holding workshops for any school that requests the service.
Already hundreds of students have taken up the opportunity to learn about the amazing facts of worms.
Contact the City's Waste Department on 9952 8222 for further information.
Ryde Environmental Education Network
Ryde Public School's EcoGarden
Ryde Public School students are learning that not all fruit and vegetables come in tins, frozen packets or wrapped in excess plastic packaging from supermarket shelves.
With the assistance of the City of Ryde and continued support from the school and local community, a 6m x 3m eco-garden was constructed within the playground. The garden is used to grow a variety of fruits and vegetables including strawberries, corn, cane sugar, and lettuce to name a few.
Active worm farms and compost bins provide the eco-garden with mulch and soil.
The newly formed "Gardening Club" has over 100 volunteer students, and with supervising teachers they work on and maintain the garden.
Joanne Li of year 6 interviewed some of the students in the club:
" We like the garden because we can play in an environmentally fun place"
"Because people learn not to litter"
"I planted lettuce seeds - the ones that turned purple"
The ecogarden is integrated into teaching a number of other subjects including maths, English, HSIE, and sport.
Talks, Workshops and Demonstrations
City of Ryde Waste Department can provide your school, with a variety of free talks, interactive demonstrations and workshops on topics including:
- Recycling in Ryde
- Shopping for the future
- The wonderful world of worms
- Working with less waste - how to reduce waste in the workplace and save money
The programs can be modified to suit children from primary through to secondary and tertiary level and are also available for teachers to be undertaken as part of their in-service days.
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