#$%^&*AU2016204904A120160804.pdf#####ABSTRACT The present invention relates to a cart for collecting several filled, locked and sealed recyclable medical waste containers for transfer to a central despatch location within 5 a medical treatment facility and for re-distributing returned sterilised empty recyclable medical waste containers to locations within the medical treatment facility. The cart includes a rack having a plurality of generally horizontal rails where each rail includes retainers for retaining several of the medical waste containers on the rack. The retainers are such that the several medical waste containers are maintained 10 separated from each other.