Domestic Waste Collection

To ensure that your bin is collected on the scheduled collection day, please note the following:

  • Bins should be placed near the kerb or roadside, facing the road and placed no less than 1 metre apart.
  • Bins should be placed out for collection the night before your collection day. Late bins will not be collected.
  • Do not overfill or compact your bins as they may not be collected (Council’s contractor will not return for bins that weren't completely emptied because they were tightly compacted).
  • Bins must not be left outside for more than one day before or after the designated collection day. 

Check My Bin Day

Non optional services (Garbage, Recycling and Food Organics and Garden Organics)

Non optional services (Garbage, Recycling and Food Organics and Garden Organics)

We provide a weekly waste and fortnightly kerbside recycling service to all properties with a dwelling located in the designated service area.

A green bin (FOGO) collection service has also been introduced in urban areas, collected fortnightly, alternating with the yellow bin.

Kerbside services for these properties are non-optional and are required to pay the annual waste, recycle and green/FOGO charges as part of the property rates.

The 2025-26 charges are:

  • 240 litre - $491.10
  • 120 litre - $245.55
  • 80 litre - $163.70
  • 240 litre - $131.70
  • 240 litre - $102.00

Community Waste Charge

The Community Waste Charge is an annual charge that is applied to all rateable properties, including vacant land without a kerbside waste and recycling collection service. The Charge ensures that all ratepayers are effectively contributing to all community waste initiatives within the municipality.

The annual charge helps to cover expenses beyond kerbside collection, including the maintenance of Council's Resource Recovery Centre and waste education initiatives throughout the municipality.

Please note that this charge is non-optional.

FAQS

No, rubbish, recycling and green bins are part of a combined service and cannot be separated.

Rubbish, recycling and FOGO charges are levied to all properties with a dwelling situated along the collection route, regardless of whether the service is required or utilised. Placing bins out for collection is discretionary.

It is not optional to participate in Council's rubbish, recycling and FOGO collection service. All properties within the designated service area, with a dwelling, are required to receive the service.

No, a vacant property does not qualify for standard kerbside collection waste services and therefore does not have charges applied to the property 

Ratepayers can change the size of their rubbish bin once per year during the month of May only. New property owners can change the size of their rubbish bin on one occasion at any time during the first year of ownership.