Changes to your green and blue bin collections in late 2025
What is changing in 2025?
Applicable to all township areas in 2025:
- Green-lidded bin will be collected weekly (previously fortnightly
- Blue-lidded bin will be collected fortnightly (previously weekly)
- Yellow-lidded bin fortnightly collection will remain unchanged
Why will there be changes to my waste collection in 2025?
- With green bins currently collected fortnightly, waste audits revealed that 40% of blue bins contained food and organic waste, indicating that this waste could have been recycled in green bins.
- Rather than sending food scraps to landfill where they rot and contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, food recycled in the green bin creates compost that is used to nourish soils on farms, parks and gardens.
- Providing a weekly green bin collection means approximately 2,087 tonnes of waste will be recycled instead of going to landfill. This is a positive environmental outcome!
- Switching to weekly green bin collection is estimated to save around $88,000 in waste disposal costs.
- Annual CO2-e emissions can be reduced.
More information will be available closer to the rollout of this initiative in the second half of 2025. In the meantime, we hope we can answer a few of your questions on our council website.