Your Waste Collection Service

Residential households are provided with:

• 1 x 80L red lidded general waste bin (weekly)
• 1 x 120L yellow lidded container recycling bin (fortnightly)
• 1 x 120L blue lidded paper and cardboard recycling bin (fortnightly)
• 1 x 240L green lidded vegetation bin (fortnightly)
• 4 x FREE bulky waste clean up collections per year

To check your bin collection days visit our waste calendar

A block of apartments is entitled to:

• 1 x 240L red lidded general waste bin per 3 units
• 1 x 240L blue lidded paper and cardboard recycling per 10 units 
• 1 x 240 yellow lidded container recycling bin per 10 units.
• 4 x FREE bulky waste clean up collections per year per household

To check your bin collection days, visit our waste collection calendar

Your red lidded bin is for general household wastes.

Your blue lidded paper and cardboard recycling bin accepts paper, magazines, newspapers, flattened cardboard, empty pizza boxes, and egg cartons.

It does not accept paper towels, tissues, waxed paper, carbon paper, or plastic bags.  

Your yellow lidded recycling bin accepts empty bottles and containers made of plastic and glass including drink containers, jars, fruit punnets, plastic cake and biscuit trays, empty shampoo and conditioner bottles, empty aerosols, aluminium and steel cans, foil trays, and empty detergent bottles. 

Your garden organics bin accepts grass clippings, twigs, leaves, weeds and prunings. The maximum size for branches is 10cm in diameter and 30cm long. It does not accept logs, bamboo, soil, timber and tree stumps.

Please place your bins out the night before your collection day.

All bins must be returned to private property by the end of your collection day 

Bins cannot be used to reserve parking out the front of your property 

	Ensure you leave a minimum 30cm gap between each bin
	Ensure you leave a minimum 1m gap between any parked cars and your bins
	Ensure you leave a minimum 1m gap between any trees and your bins
	Ensure you leave a minimum gap of 1m between your bins and any telegraph poles or signposts

Lane Cove's general waste is transported by rail to Veolia's Woodlawn Eco-Precinct, near Goulburn. Once there, a portion of our waste is processed through a Mechanical and Biological Treatment facility which uses resource recovery technology to extract organic content from Council's general waste stream; producing compost for on-site mine rehabilitation. 

The remainder of our waste is deposited into bioreactor landfill in which liquids are added to help bacteria break down the waste and the resultant gases are then captured to produce green energy.