How often are bins collected?
- Your rubbish bin (red-lid) is collected every week.
- Your recycling bin (yellow-lid) is collected fortnightly - it alternates with your purple-lid glass bin.
- Your glass bin (purple-lid) is collected fortnightly - it alternates with your yellow-lid recycling bin.
What day is my bin collected?
Find your zone by entering your address in our interactive bin collection zone map or download the bin collection zone map (PDF 1.1MB).
You can download your bin collection calendar from the interactive map or from the list below.
| Zone | Collection day | Calendar/map download |
| 1 | Monday | Zone 1 bin collection calendar 2023/24 (PDF 261kB) |
| 2 | Monday | Zone 2 bin collection calendar 2023/24 (PDF 256kB) |
| 3 | Tuesday | Zone 3 bin collection calendar 2023/24 (PDF 258kB) |
| 4 | Tuesday | Zone 4 bin collection calendar 2023/24 (PDF 256kB) |
| Abbotsford trial area | Tuesday | Abbotsford trial area bin collection calendar July 2023 to June 2024 (PDF 291kB) |
| 5 | Wednesday | Zone 5 bin collection calendar 2023/24 (PDF 256kB) |
| 6 | Wednesday | Zone 6 bin collection calendar 2023/24 (PDF 254kB) |
| 7 | Thursday | Zone 7 bin collection calendar 2023/24 (PDF 257kB) |
| 8 | Thursday | Zone 8 bin collection calendar 2023/24 (PDF 255kB) |
| 9 | Friday | Zone 9 bin collection calendar 2023/24 (PDF 255kB) |
| 10 | Friday | Zone 10 bin collection calendar 2023/24 (PDF 255kB) |
Bin collection zone map
Once you know your zone, use the map below to view your bin collection calendar.
When do I put out my bin for collection?
Bins should be placed out no earlier than 5pm the night before your collection day, or by 5am on collection day
Bin collection on public holidays
Bin collections are only affected on Christmas Day and Good Friday. If your collection falls on one of these days, then your bins will be collected the following day.
If you’re not sure, please check the bin collection calendar or FAQs section.
How to report a missed collection
Bins are collected any time between 5am and 4pm on your collection day.
If your bin has not been collected by 4pm, please let us know via report missed bin collection. We’ll collect it within 24-48 business hours of being notified, including on weekends.
Please check the bin collection calendar before reporting a missed collection. Bins will not be collected in a different week to the scheduled service.
What to do if your bin is marked with a contamination sticker
To help you learn how to recycle correctly, we will place a sticker on your recycling or glass bin if you put the wrong items inside. We will mark on the sticker what the wrong item is, so that you know not to put it in there next time.
When you have removed the wrong item/s, please call us on 9205 5555 or let us know via report missed bin collection and we will arrange for your bin to be emptied.
We want to make sure that our recycling can be processed correctly and used to make new products. The contamination sticker is a useful educational tool to help everyone learn how to recycle correctly.