Residential Waste & Recycling Services
- Residential Waste & Recycling Collection Service
Find out the day your domestic rubbish bins are collected.
- Residential Verge Waste Collection Calendar
Find out whenand where the next Residential Bulk and Greenwaste Verge Collections are planned for in your area.
- General Guidelines
Ensure you comply with these tips to guarantee your verge waste is picked up.
Use the street database to find out when your next collection dates are for waste, recycling, green waste and bulk waste verge collections.
Type in your street name below and click on Go to proceed. A new window will contain the requested collection dates.
Public Holidays: There are no changes to your collection day on all public holidays.
To obtain a new rubbish bin or to get your bin repaired, please contact the City's Waste & Recycling Facility on 9528 8550. If you are requesting a new bin please allow 7 days notice for your new bin to be available.
Waste and recycling bins should be put out on verge before 6:00am on the day of service.
The weight your bin cannot exceed is 70kg. Unfortunately if your bin is above this weight it cannot be emptied. Please attempt to maintain a distance of one (1) metre from fences, walls and cars.
To find out times, guidelines and dates for your area contact the Waste & Recycling Facility on 9528 8550. Also keep an eye out in the local newspapers as dates will also be advertised two weeks before collection commences.
Please do NOT place green waste out for this collection as it will not be collected. The following items WILL be collected:
Whitegoods (Stoves, fridges (remove doors) etc)
Scrap
Timber (up to 1.5 metres in length)
General junk
Bulk Rubbish is to be placed on the verge in TWO piles (maximum pile length and width is a 2 metre square) without obstructing footpaths which will be collected by a separate truck for recycling. The FIRST pile is to contain white goods and all metal products and the SECOND pile is to contain all other materials complying with the collection criteria.
The following items WILL NOT be removed:
No GREENWASTE
No paints, chemicals, oils
No asbestos products
No bricks or sand
No food stuff
No stumps or palm logs
No car bodies or half bodies
No tyres
No gas cylinders
No batteries
Please do not place bulk waste items out for this collection as they will not be collected.
The following items WILL be collected:
Tree and shrub prunings up to 1.5 metres in length and 300mm in diameter
TWO trailer loads (6x4 trailer size) or 2 cubic metres.
The following items WILL NOT be removed with Green Waste:
Stumps and palm logs
Weeds and root material
Sand and soil materials
Dug out lawn
Loose leaves and lawn clippings (Place in a plastic bag and deposit in green mobile garbage bin)
General rubbish, junk or whitegoods
Larger than two trailer loads (6x4 trailer size)
Place your waste neatly on the verge NO MORE THAN SEVEN (7) days prior to the scheduled start date for your Area.
Place your waste on the verge by Monday 6:00am on the scheduled start date for your Area as the contractor will only check your verge once.
Allow 5 - 7 working days for Areas 1, 2 and 3 to be collected.
Allow 10 -14 working days for Areas 4 and 5 to be collected.
Put objects in piles larger than 2 metres by 2 metres.
Obstruct the footpath.
Obstruct your normal waste and recycling bin services.
The line of sight of pedestrians, cyclists or cars.
Place your waste inside your property line or behind fences.
Place your waste on other verges as it will not be collected from vacant properties, land or public reserves.
Tie your greenwaste in bundles.
As verge collections are picked up by mechanical means, please avoid placing your bulk rubbish next to:
Trees
Power poles
Walls
Street signs
Sprinklers or water meters (as these may be damaged).
For more detailed information or for a printable version of the verge waste collections, download the latest 2009/2010 Verge Waste Flyer.
