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Recycling and rubbish

Find out about our bin collection service, booking a hard rubbish collection, drop-off options for recycling, making a bin request, reporting dumped rubbish, and more.

Please note

Hard rubbish collections are not available for commercial properties or apartments with private waste arrangements.

Services and support

A to Z Waste and Recycling Guide

This A to Z Waste and Recycling Guide shares ways to recycle or dispose of common items, including items that can't go in household bins.

Bin collection

We have easy to use information and zone maps so you can understand all aspects of Yarra's bin collection service.

Bin requests and sizes

We can help with new waste services, replace or repair bins and more.

Book a hard rubbish collection

Yarra residents can have up to two free collections of hard rubbish per household each calendar year.

Business waste collection

Waste collection options for businesses in Yarra and answers to frequently asked questions.

Cleansing and maintenance

How we maintain our footpaths, laneways, roads and kerb channels. Request help with street furniture, drains, dead animals and other cleaning issues.

Recycling drop-off centres

Yarra has recycling drop-off centres in Clifton Hill and Burnley. 

Reducing waste

How to reduce, reuse and recycle to lessen the amount of waste we landfill, and to reduce avoidable food waste.

Waste transfer stations

Where to take items not accepted in our hard rubbish collection service or at our recycling drop-off centres.

What to put in your bins

Information about what can go in each bin, communal food organics drop-off hubs, our bin posters and stickers and answers to frequently asked questions.

Yarra’s circular economy

We support a circular economy, which looks at the way things are made and consumed to minimise the use of resources and reduce waste and carbon emissions.