Your Waste Collection Service

For any enquiries relating to your waste collection service, including damaged bins, missed collections, booking a Council Cleanup or application forms for additional bins, please visit our Log a Request page.

What waste services do I receive?

Single Unit Dwelling

Residential households are provided with:

  • 1 x 80L red lidded general waste bin (weekly)
  • 1 x 120L yellow lidded container recycling bin (fortnightly)
  • 1 x 120L blue lidded paper and cardboard recycling bin (fortnightly)
  • 1 x 240L green lidded vegetation bin (fortnightly)
  • 4 x FREE bulky waste clean up collections per year

To check your bin collection days visit our waste calendar

 

Multi Unit Dwelling

A block of apartments is entitled to:

  • 1 x 240L red lidded general waste bin per 3 units
  • 1 x 240L blue lidded paper and cardboard recycling per 5 units 
  • 1 x 240 yellow lidded container recycling bin per 5 units.
  • 4 x FREE bulky waste clean up collections per year per household

To check your bin collection days, visit our waste collection calendar

 

General Waste Bin (Red)

Your red lidded bin is for general household wastes.

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Paper and Cardboard Recycling (Blue)

Your blue lidded paper and cardboard recycling bin accepts paper, magazines, newspapers, flattened cardboard, empty pizza boxes, and egg cartons.

It does not accept paper towels, tissues, waxed paper, carbon paper, or plastic bags.  

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Container Recycling (Yellow)

Your yellow lidded recycling bin accepts empty bottles and containers made of plastic and glass including drink containers, jars, fruit punnets, plastic cake and biscuit trays, empty shampoo and conditioner bottles, empty aerosols, aluminium and steel cans, foil trays, and empty detergent bottles. 

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Garden Organics (Green)

Your garden organics bin accepts grass clippings, twigs, leaves, weeds and prunings. The maximum size for branches is 10cm in diameter and 30cm long. It does not accept logs, bamboo, soil, timber and tree stumps.

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How to present your bins on the kerb

Please place your bins out the night before your collection day.

All bins must be returned to private property by the end of your collection day 

Bins cannot be used to reserve parking out the front of your property 

distance between bins Ensure you leave a minimum 30cm gap between each bin
car Ensure you leave a minimum 1m gap between any parked cars and your bins
trees Ensure you leave a minimum 1m gap between any trees and your bins
telegraph pole Ensure you leave a minimum gap of 1m between your bins and any telegraph poles or signposts

 

Where does our waste go?

Lane Cove's general waste is transported by rail to Veolia's Woodlawn Eco-Precinct, near Goulburn. Once there, a portion of our waste is processed through a Mechanical and Biological Treatment facility which uses resource recovery technology to extract organic content from Council's general waste stream; producing compost for on-site mine rehabilitation. 

The remainder of our waste is deposited into bioreactor landfill in which liquids are added to help bacteria break down the waste and the resultant gases are then captured to produce green energy. 

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