Learn how to dispose of your waste the right way.
Use our A to Z waste guide on how to recycle or dispose of unwanted household items.
FOGO green-lid bin
Your food organics and garden organics is collected weekly and includes:
- food scraps
- fruit and vegetables
- bread, cereal, pasta and rice
- meat and seafood, including bones
- dairy and eggs
- coffee grounds and tea leaves
- leftovers
- leaves and flowers
- sticks, less than 10cm diameter
- branches, less than 70cm long
- grass and weeds.
Recycling yellow-lid bin
Your recycling is collected fortnightly and includes:
- glass bottles and jars (leave metal caps on)
- plastic bottles and containers with numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- aluminium and steel cans, including aerosol cans and clean foil
- newspaper, magazines and cardboard
- milk and juice cartons.
Containers do not need to be rinsed but must be empty. Do not put recyclables in plastic bags. Plastic bottles are to have their lids on.
Rubbish red-lid bin
Your rubbish is collected fortnightly and includes:
- nappies
- expanded Polystyrene packing, trays, cups and containers
- plastic wrap
- broken glass, ceramics, Pyrex, globes
- soft plastics: supermarket and frozen food bags
- worn out clothing and shoes.
Please wrap or bag your garbage.
Soft plastics
REDcycle have announced a pause of it’s soft plastics collection program.
When it comes to soft plastic waste, to avoid and reduce.
Use items without soft plastic packaging, or choose products with the least amount of soft plastics packaging if there is no alternative.
With the announced pause, dispose of soft plastics via the rubbish bin. Soft plastics cannot be placed into the kerbside recycling bin. All soft plastics and bagged recyclables are sent to landfill and not recycled.
The announcement does not impact recyclables collected through the Council kerbside service. Collected materials are still being taken to the local materials recovery facility (MRF) in Bellfield. Here, the material is sorted ready for further processing and re-manufacture. These contents are routinely processed and primarily re-made into new packaging products, with mixed paper, glass, and plastics processed in Australia and New Zealand.
This page will be updated when the REDcycle program resumes.
Food scraps
Do not put food scraps in your red-lid rubbish bin. Put them in your green-lid FOGO bin.
Clothing and shoes
Donate your old clothes and shoes to your local op shop. If items are too worn and cannot be donated, they can be used as cleaning rags or placed in your garbage bin.
To find out about collection days, bin replacements and more go to bin collection services.
Dispose of your waste the right way
Contact us
If you need more information about our waste services, contact us on 9490 4222 or enquiries@banyule.vic.gov.au