A greasy pizza box belongs in the green organics bin where you have a food organics service, otherwise the red general waste bin.
The detail#
Clean, unsoiled cardboard can be recycled in the yellow bin, but food-soaked cardboard contaminates recycling. With a food and garden organics service, the whole box composts. Without one, it is general waste.
Check the rule for your council#
Councils set their own accepted-item lists. Open your council page from the home search to confirm the rule where you live, or start from your state:
- New South Wales council bin rules
- Victoria council bin rules
- Queensland council bin rules
- South Australia council bin rules
- Western Australia council bin rules
- Tasmania council bin rules
- Australian Capital Territory council bin rules
- Northern Territory council bin rules
The lid colours themselves follow Australian Standard AS 4123, so the colour code is national even where the accepted-item list is not. Where a council runs a food and garden organics service or a separate glass bin, the answer for some items changes.