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.