Reuse and Recycle Hubs

We’re creating a purpose-built Reuse and Recycling Hub to complement our new North Terrace City Library. The new hub won’t be ready when the library first reopens, but we’ll update you as information becomes available. The Hub from the City Library at Rundle Place won't be relocating to North Terrace. You can continue recycling at our other Hub locations across the city, which remain open and ready for use.

City of Adelaide residents can take their hard‑to‑recycle items to our Reuse and Recycle Hubs. 

These hubs were created in collaboration with students at UniSA (now Adelaide University), and built using recycled materials. They’ve been introduced in response to community feedback asking for more ways to keep waste out of landfill. 

Items collected through the hubs are reused or recycled to support meaningful causes including animal conservation, providing eyeglasses to people in need, and more. Small electrical waste items will help to create work for supported employees right here in South Australia.

Accepted items

Select a waste type to see what you can drop into the Hubs and where each item will go.

fluorescent tubes
blister packs
e-waste, cords and chargers
eye glasses
batteries
x-rays
mobile phones and tablets
printer cartridges
light globes

Please note that items must not be left near or next to the Hubs. If your items don't fit, other methods of disposal are available.

Book online with City of Adelaide

Residents of the City of Adelaide can book a hard waste collection through the council.

Book via phone with Cleanaway

To book a hard waste collection, call 1800 777 844 (Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm).

Deliver to an Unplug N' Drop hub

Take acceptable large e-waste items to an Unplug N' Drop recycling hub.

Exclusions and limitations

The City Library will have new location on North Terrace in 2026, and will confirm if it can accept tubes once the relocation is complete.

South Australia has transitioned to from plastic to cardboard bread tags, so this program will soon conclude. Thanks to your environmental efforts, Aussie Bread Tags for Wheelchairs was able to recycle 18 tonnes of tags and provided 167 wheelchairs to people in need.

Find a Reuse and Recycle Hub

      Your questions answered

      The items we put in our yellow recycling bins are taken to a Material Recovery Facility (MRF), where people and machines sort them into different material types. Some things can’t go in the yellow bin because they:

      • Can start fires. For example, lithium batteries can ignite inside collection trucks.
      • Contaminate other recyclables. The glass in light globes is different from the glass used in jars and bottles.
      • Are too small. MRF machinery can’t process anything smaller than a credit card.
      • Can harm staff. For example, broken fluorescent tubes can cause injury.

      Our research shows that these items have transparent reuse or recycling options. The Reuse and Recycle Hubs are built as a modular system, which means we can expand them over time as more items become reusable or recyclable.

      We’ll be tracking how much material is dropped off at the Hubs, and reporting on which recycling streams are used the most.

      Need more information?

      Please contact our Sustainability team with any questions.

      8203 7203