General waste, recycling and organics

Find out what goes in your general waste bin. Request a smaller bin and save. Sort your waste and divert certain things from landfill.

Find out what does and what doesn’t go into your recycling bin. Sort, rinse, put in the bin loose (no plastic bags). Help us avoid contaminating loads.

Find out what goes in your Organics bin, order extra caddy liners, what happens next. Keeping food and garden waste collection out of landfill to make compost.

We check to see if the wrong things are in recycling, organics and general waste bins. What to do if your bin is tagged. Less waste contamination, helping our community understand waste.

The Victorian Government has mandated the removal of glass from the kerbside recycling stream by 2027.

Our A-Z guide to disposing of waste provides advice to help you sort it out before you throw it out.

Find out how to reduce your waste - reuse things, buy less, repair rather than replace, refuse single-use products, manage your food better.

At recycling centres we sort and collect waste and resources to give them another life. Location and contact details for Goornong, Heathcote and Strathfieldsaye recycling centres.

Eaglehawk Landfill location, contact and fees. Only things that can't be recycled or recovered in any other way should go to landfill.

Find information explaining our services and other educational material in Karen, Dari, Hazaraghi, Dinka, Mandarin.

Understand the idea of circular economy and what the City is doing to realise net zero waste by 2036

Hire our waste, organics or recycling bins for your event. Organisers of events held in our parks and venues must have a waste management plan and understand our plastic-free event policy.

Find out about waste education sessions and resources for schools, childcare and kindergartens and community groups.