Waste charges

Residential waste charges

The waste service charge on your rates notice includes:

• Recycling bin collection fortnightly
• Green waste bin collection fortnightly until end of September 2023
• FOGO bin collection weekly from October 2023
• Rubbish bin collection weekly* until end of September 2023
• Rubbish bin collection fortnightly from October 2023

Waste Packages

Package		Cost* (Properties with an existing green waste bin that will become a FOGO bin)	Cost (Properties receiving a new FOGO Bin)
	240L FOGO bin 240L Recycling bin 120L Rubbish bin	$459	$427
Package 2
	240L FOGO bin 240L Recycling bin 80L Rubbish bin	$444	$412
Package 3
	240L FOGO bin 120L Recycling bin 120L Rubbish bin	$444	$412
Package 4
	240L FOGO bin 120L Recycling bin 80L Rubbish bin	$429	$397
Package 5
	120L FOGO bin 240L Recycling bin 120L Rubbish bin	$444	$412
Package 6
	120L FOGO bin 240L Recycling bin 80L Rubbish bin	$429	$397
Package 7
	120L FOGO bin 120L Recycling bin 120L Rubbish bin	$429	$397
Package 8
	120L FOGO bin 120L Recycling bin 80L Rubbish bin	$414	$382

Charges listed in the 'Existing green waste bin that will become FOGO in October' reflects three months of fortnightly green waste collections and nine months of weekly FOGO collections for the 2023/2024 financial year.

Additional bins

Charges for individual additional bins reflect the cost of the provision of the bin and the full year collection service of that bin. All residential and non-residential customers may have one or more of these bins in addition to the base package (each package consisting of a recycling bin, a FOGO bin and a rubbish bin).

Yarra Ranges Council offers an optional waste collection service to non-residential customers and from October will be aligned with the residential service bin sizes and collection frequencies. Non-residential customers include businesses, schools, religious organisations and other non-residential organisations. Non-residential waste service customers are not eligible for hard waste and bundled branches collections.

Bin collection frequencies are:

• Recycling bin collection fortnightly
• Garden Organics bin collection fortnightly until end of September 2023
• FOGO bin collection weekly from October 2023
• Rubbish bin collection weekly* until end of September 2023
• Rubbish bin collection fortnightly from October 2023

*Some existing non-residential customers have a twice weekly rubbish collection while others have an equivalent but altered capacity for once weekly collection. From October 2023 all Council rubbish bin collections will move to one fortnightly collection.

Waste Packages

Package		Cost* (Properties with an existing green waste bin that will become a FOGO bin)	Cost (Properties receiving a new FOGO Bin)
	240L FOGO bin 240L Recycling bin 120L Rubbish bin	$385	$383
Package 2
	240L FOGO bin 240L Recycling bin 80L Rubbish bin	$370	$338
Package 3
	240L FOGO bin 120L Recycling bin 120L Rubbish bin	$370	$338
Package 4
	240L FOGO bin 120L Recycling bin 80L Rubbish bin	$355	$323
Package 5
	120L FOGO bin 240L Recycling bin 120L Rubbish bin	$370	$338
Package 6
	120L FOGO bin 240L Recycling bin 80L Rubbish bin	$355	$323
Package 7
	120L FOGO bin 120L Recycling bin 120L Rubbish bin	$355	$323
Package 8
	120L FOGO bin 120L Recycling bin 80L Rubbish bin	$340	$308

*Charges stated for 'existing green waste bin changing to FOGO in October' reflect three months of fortnightly organics bin collections and nine months of weekly FOGO collections for the 2023/2024 financial year.

Additional bins

Charges for individual additional bins reflect the cost of the provision of the bin and the full year collection service of that bin. All residential and non-residential customers may have one or more of these bins in addition to the base package (each package consisting of a recycling bin, a FOGO bin and a rubbish bin).