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.

Be a recycling champion – Volunteers welcome

Hobsons Bay City Council is harnessing volunteer support to help drive community awareness of and engagement with our innovative new waste and recycling service, Recycling 2.0

Recycling 2.0

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

Council's recycling update 13 November 2019

Update: Council's recycling collections are back online.

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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