Click through to learn more about what you can put in each bin.
Please keep the following hazardous items out of all wheelie bins:
- All types of batteries (car, household, phone, laptop, power tool, etc.)
- Household chemicals
- Accelerants eg. petrol, diesel, waste oils
- Gas bottles, butane cans
- Flares, ammunition
- Hot coals or lit cigarettes
Your green rubbish bin is collected weekly.
Make sure your bin is placed at its collection point by 6am on scheduled collection days.
After collection, move your bin from the collection point back to your property as soon as possible.
What can I put in my general rubbish bin?
An extensive list of items and how to dispose of them is available online.
View full waste items list
Do put in the rubbish bin:
- Household garbage,
- Food waste, meat, fish, poultry, scraps and bones,
- Nappies (wrapped),
- Polystyrene and foam meat trays,
- Plastic packaging, food wrappers and cling film (soft plastics),
- Window glass, glassware, mirrors and pyrex.
Don't put in the rubbish bin:
- Green waste,
- Recyclables,
- Batteries or any items that use a battery or power cord,
- Bricks, rubble, timber & renovation material or hot ashes,
- Paint, pesticides, oil or solvents,
- Syringes,
- Liquids, acids, hazardous or chemical waste.
Larger items may be taken to the tip (waste transfer stations)
Please note that if a bin is too heavy for one person to manually lift onto a truck, the bin will receive a sticker and the repair/replacement/removal will be rescheduled for after the next waste collection.
Overfilled bins cause litter in streets and allow animals to access and spread waste.
Your recycling bin is collected fortnightly.
Make sure your bin is placed at its collection point by 6am on scheduled collection days. After being collected, move your bin from the collection point back to your property as soon as possible.
Recycling will be changing across Victoria in the coming years. Find out more about how recycling is transforming.
What can I put in my general rubbish bin?
An extensive list of items and how to dispose of them is available online.
View full waste items list
Do put in the recycling bin:
- Cardboard boxes,
- Milk & juice cartons,
- Plastic bottles and lids, containers, trays, plant pots, cd & dvd covers,
- Glass bottles & jars (including lids),
- Steel cans including aerosol & aluminium cans, clean aluminium foil & pie trays,
- Books, envelopes, brochures, newspapers & magazines,
- Plastic Toys,
- Pots & pans,
- Paint tins (dry/empty).
Don't put in the recycling bin:
- Plastic bags,
- Food waste, meat, fish,
- poultry, scraps or bones,
- Batteries, or items that use a battery or power cord,
- Plastic wrap, polystyrene,
- foam meat trays,
- Glassware, crockery, pyrex, light bulbs, window glass or mirrors,
- Garbage, nappies, videos or dvds,
- Waxed cardboard,
- Gas cylinders,
- Syringes,
- Green waste,
- Coffee cups or lids.
To find out where you can recycle other items visit the Recycling Near You website.
Please note that if a bin is too heavy for one person to manually lift onto a truck, the bin will receive a sticker and the repair/replacement/removal will be rescheduled for after the next waste collection.
Overfilled bins cause litter in streets and allow animals to access and spread waste.
Recycling of Soft Plastics
REDcycle has paused its soft plastics collection program. We will update you when there is a new soft plastics recycling scheme. In the meantime, please dispose of your soft plastics in your household rubbish bin.
Your green waste bin is collected fortnightly. There is an optional charge for the Green Waste Collection.
Green waste collection is available in urban areas, townships and the Dandenong Ranges.
Request a new or additional green waste service.
All weeds can be safely placed in the Green Waste bin.
Our green waste is heat treated according to Australian Standards for waste management. This kills off all pathogens and weed seeds to prevent them spreading.
Make sure your bin is placed at its collection point by 6am on scheduled collection days. After being collected, move your bin from the collection point back to your property as soon as possible.
What can I put in my general rubbish bin?
An extensive list of items and how to dispose of them is available online.
View full waste items list
Do put in the green waste bin:
- Grass clippings and weeds
- Flowers
- Garden prunings
- Rose clippings
- Leaves
- Bark
- Small branches & timber offcuts
Don't put in the green waste bin:
- Soil, wood ash, stones
- Plastic bags
- Stumps, large branches, timber or garden stakes.
- Garbage, nappies, plastic bags
- Recyclables
- Food waste
- String, twine or wire
- Hazardous or chemical waste
- Syringes
Find out more about hard waste or bundled branches collection.
Please don’t overload bins (max. 75kg) and keep lid closed.
Overfilled bins cause litter in streets and allow animals to access and spread waste.
Your waste is important to us, we’re working to avoid manual handling of bins wherever possible to reduce the risk to community members and our contractors.
We’re working to avoid manual handling of bins wherever possible, to reduce the risk to community members and our contractors.
Help us to keep the community safe and make your bin safe to collect:
- Make sure your bin is on the kerb, away from cars, trees and other obstacles, so it can be easily reached by our truck’s automatic arm.
- Your bin should be at least 50cm away from other bins and one metre away from poles, trees and cars, with the handle facing away from the kerb.
- Your bin should be no more than 1m from the kerb, otherwise we can’t reach it.
- If you can’t find a safe place on your kerb to put your bin, you can place them in your driveway if it is safe to do so.
- Make sure your bin is safe to empty – if your bin is damaged, you’ll need to contact us to organise a replacement.
- If your bin is too heavy, we won’t be able to safely collect it.
- If your bin is over-filled, we won’t be able to safely collect it.
- You should be able to close the lid of the bin easily.
- If your bin is over-filled, it will likely spill when our automatic arm collects it.
- Don’t put oversized items or the wrong thing in your bins.
- Oversized items may have to go to a waste transfer station for a fee.
- Don’t park in front of bins so we can collect them easily.
- Don’t park in front of bins or in truck turning areas, such as court bowls.
- Our trucks need a lot of room to turn around safely.
If we couldn’t collect your bin, or if we could collect it but faced some problems doing so, our contractor will leave a notice with more information.
For more information about Waste and bin collections, give us a call on 1300 368 333 during business hours.
Rubbish
Waste from our rubbish bins is taken to the Hallam Road Landfill, which is operated by SUEZ. Our landfill rubbish (non-hazardous items that cannot be recycled or reused) is placed into specially-engineered holes in the ground. Water runoff is trapped and safely disposed, and methane gases emitted as the waste breaks down are trapped and burned to create electricity.
Recycling
Waste from our recycling bins is taken to the VISY Materials Recovery Facility in Springvale. Here, it is sorted into different types of materials (e.g. different types of hard plastics, paper and cardboard, aluminium, steel, glass). Each type of material is then sent off to different companies who use the recyclable materials to manufacture new products.
Green Waste
Waste from our green waste bins is taken to BioGro in Dandenong South. Here, it is composted to create a product that is used on farms and sold in nurseries and hardware stores for use in gardens.
To find out where to dispose of specific items view our A-Z list.