To assist with fire prevention, Adelaide Hills Council offers a number of free green organic drop off days throughout the year. Residents are invited to drop off green organic waste to the prescribed locations on the dates scheduled below.
Outside of these dates, green organic waste can be disposed for a fee at the Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre.
Drop off locations are open 9:00am – 4:00pm on scheduled days. Proof of residency is required.
Please note that residents are required to unload their green waste. Council staff are not required to assist but can do so at their own discretion.
- Saturday 7th December 2024
- Sunday 8th December 2024
- Wednesday 11th December 2024
- Saturday 11 January 2025
- Sunday 12th January 2025
- Wednesday 29th January 2025
- Saturday 8th February 2025
- Sunday 9th February 2025
- Saturday 15th March 2025
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Sunday 16th March 2025
- Saturday 12th April 2025
- Sunday 13th April 2025
- Wednesday 16th April 2025
- Saturday 17th May 2025
- Sunday 18th May 2025
- Sunday 15th June 2025
If an ‘Extreme 75 or above’ or ‘Catastrophic’ fire danger day is declared by the CFS, this service will be cancelled
Items that are accepted
Clean residential green organics including prunings, leaves, small branches (up to 100mm diameter). Loads are limited to a 7x5 trailer size (no limit to visits made).
To produce the highest quality mulch, the items listed below are not accepted as part of the free drop off days:
PEST PLANTS NOT ACCEPTED:
- AGAPANTHAS
- BAMBOO/GIANT REED
- BLACKBERRY
- BLUE PERIWINKLE
- BLUEBELL CREEPERS
- BONESEED
- BRIDAL CREEPER
- CAPE BROOM
- ENGLISH BROOM
- DESERT ASH
- DOG/BRIAR ROSE
- GORZE/FURZE
- HAWTHORN
- OLIVE
- SALLOW WATTLE
- SALVATION JANE
- SWEET PITTOSPORUM
- TREE LUCERNE / TAGASASTE
- THREE-CORNERED GARLIC
- WATSONIA
- WILLOW
ENVIRONMENTAL PLANTS:
- LAWN CLIPPINGS
- PALM FRONDS
- POPLAR
- ROSES
- THREE CORNER JACK
Commercial or truck loads of materials, waste or hard rubbish, palm fronds and declared or serious environmental weeds are not accepted. Click here for a comprehensive list of organics that are not accepted. Pest or environmental plants can be disposed of at the Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre for a fee or placed into an organic kerbside bin. Green bin waste is composted whereas material collected during drop off days is mulched.
Recycling Process
Council mulches the organics collected and then on-sells it as nutrient rich mulch. The mulch can be purchased from the Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre located at 32 Scott Creek Road, Heathfield.
Drop off locations
Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre
- Type
- Council Depot
- Address
- Scott Creek Road, Scott Creek
Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre is operated by Adelaide Hills Region Waste Management Authority on behalf of Adelaide Hills Council to provide recycling and waste resource recovery services where customers can recycle or dispose of waste.