Waste & Recycling

Hobsons Bay provides a weekly garbage collection service and fortnightly recycling and green waste collections. The standard service includes a 120 litre garbage bin and a 240 litre recycling bin. Council's green waste collections are optional and include a 240 litre or 120 litre bin. Different fees apply for each size.

New waste and recycling services

A more efficient, reliable and locally-focussed kerbside waste and recycling service is coming your way over summer!

Be a recycling champion – register your interest

The Hobsons Bay community can get involved in recycling efforts. Council is soon forming a volunteers group to champion the new system and help improve recycling in Hobsons Bay.

Council's recycling update 13 November 2019

Update: Council's recycling collections are back online.

Recycling drop off days

Saturday 28 September 2019 will be the last recycling drop off day. Council will resume recycling household material collected from yellow bins from Monday 30 September 2019.

Waste & recycling calendar

Find out what days your garbage, green waste and recycle bins are collected.

New & replacement bin requests

Order garbage, recycling, green waste or additional bin services.

Garbage

Find out what to place in your garbage bin.

Recycling

Recycling bin collections and other recycling services in Hobsons Bay.

Hard waste

How to organise a hard waste collection and what we collect.

Green waste

Green waste services, composting and worm farms and other food waste avoidance programs.

Recycling & landfill centres

Where to take waste and recycling items we don't accept.

Commercial cardboard

Weekly commercial cardboard collection service guide.

Changes in global recycling markets

Recently there have been changes in the global recycling industry that have affected recycling in Australia.

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