Hard rubbish
Find my collection date
Every residential property in Yarra Ranges has one annual hard rubbish collection. Hard rubbish collection dates vary from property to property.
Hard rubbish collections occur annually between late January and the end of March. Each area is allocated a specific week for their collection.
The collection week for your area is subject to change each year, so please check your address below for correct collection details.
Items for hard rubbish collection must be placed on the nature strip by the Sunday evening prior to the start of your collection week. Materials must not be placed out more than one week prior to your collection week. Late materials will not be collected.
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Collection information
What can I put out for collection?
Hard rubbish collections are for household items that are too big to fit in your kerbside bins. Bulky items such as whitegoods, metal items, mattresses and electronic waste can also be placed out for special recycling.
Items you can place out for hard rubbish collection include:
- Unwanted furniture that cannot be donated or reused by others
- Metals
- Whitegoods
- Electrical items e.g. computers, televisions, monitors, all battery and power-operated items and items with an electrical cord
- Mattresses
Help to minimise waste in our community
Please don’t put useful items out in your hard rubbish pile. Consider donating items to charities, sell or give them away via online sites such as Facebook, Buy Nothing Groups, Marketplace and Gumtree, or see if family or friends are interested. This will reduce the natural resources used to make new items and help to protect the environment.
Placing your hard rubbish out correctly
To ensure your items are easily collected, please separate items into distinct piles: hard waste, metals, e-waste, bundled branches and mattresses.
Each pile must be no more than 3 cubic metres and according to the following guidelines. Piles that don’t meet these guidelines may not be collected.
Hard rubbish can include:
- Up to 10 pieces of timber (not fencing)
- Glass, shower screens and mirrors (must be wrapped and clearly marked as glass)
- TV's, computers and electronic equipment
Metals, whitegoods and equipment (fridge doors removed)
Your items should be:
- Maximum length of 1.5 metres for each individual item
- Maximum weight of 50kg for each individual item
Bundled branches
Your bundles branches must be:
- Tied in bundles with non-plastic string e.g. cotton, jute twine
- Up to 20 bundles of branches
- Each bundle no larger than 1.5 metres long and 200 millimetres wide
- Tree limbs (75mm – 200mm diameter). Straight clean logs with side branches removed. Maximum 1.5m long.
What won't be collected
Common items that won't be collected include:
- Bricks, rubble, excavated material, concrete, soil or earth, building, renovation or demolition material, cement sheeting
- Bamboo, creepers, vines, palm trees, soft plants, rose bushes, thorny plants, weeds, grass clippings or leaves
- Untied branches or branches tied with plastic twine, stockings or wire
- Barbed wire
- Branches containing nails or wire
- Batteries, car tyres, trucks or tractor tyres, suspension springs or engines
- Stumps or roots
- Tree limbs larger than 200mm in diameter or more than 1.5m long
- Tree limbs (thicker than 75mm and up to 200mm diameter) with side branches attached
- Broken glass (unless wrapped)
- Chemicals, liquids, paints, oil, fluids, asbestos or hazardous materials
- Industrial, business or commercial waste
- Household garbage, recyclables or polystyrene
- Wheelie bins
- Gas cylinders, fuel tanks or water tanks
- Loose garden organic material in boxes, bags, containers or bins
- Linoleum flooring (lino)
- Solar panels
- Asbestos (find out what to do with asbestos)
FAQ's
Visit the FAQS page to find answers to our frequently asked hard rubbish questions.
Report a missed collection
You must report a missed collection within one week of your collection date for further investigation. If you have received a knockback notice the material presented is likely to have not met the criteria of this service. Please arrange alternative disposal.
Due to the one-off scheduled nature of this service, the trucks have already moved to other areas and won’t be able to return if the waste materials were not presented correctly during your scheduled week of collection.
Report a missed collection