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 lid general waste bin (weekly)
  • 1 x 80L maroon lid food recycling bin (weekly)
  • 1 x 120L yellow lid container recycling bin (fortnightly)
  • 1 x 120L blue lid paper and cardboard recycling bin (fortnightly)
  • 1 x 240L green lid garden waste recycling 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 lid general waste bin per 3 units
  • 1 x 240L blue lid paper and cardboard recycling bin per 5 units 
  • 1 x 240 yellow lid container recycling bin per 5 units
  • For green garden waste recycling bins, talk with our Waste team for what you need.
  • 4 x FREE bulky waste clean-up collections per year per household (some complexes organise communal bookings via their building manager or strata, on behalf of residents. Please check if this is how your complex operates before booking your own bulky waste collection).

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

 

General Waste Bin (Red Lid)

Your red lid bin is for general household wastes.

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Food Waste Recycling Bin (Maroon Lid)

Your maroon lid food waste bin is for food wastes and approved liners (AS4736) only. 

 

Paper and Cardboard Recycling (Blue Lid)

Your blue lid 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 Lid)

Your yellow lid 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. 

Please only put empty containers in the recycling bin to improve the quality of items that the recycling companies can process and turn into other products. 

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Garden Organics (Green Lid)

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 food, logs, bamboo, soil, timber, tree stumps or construction material.

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How to present your bins on the kerb

Please place your bins out the night before your collection day, with the handle facing the footpath and kerb.

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.

 

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