Resource Recovery & Waste Management Facilities
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Our standard service
Your bin collection days
Your RED garbage bin
Your YELLOW recycling bin
Your GREEN garden bin
Waste and Recycling Requests
We introduced our standard household waste service after two years of research. This involved extensive discussion with the local community.
Our standard waste service is made up of the following kerbside collections:
Council's household waste service is a NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) recommended best practice waste service.
If the standard service does not suit your household, alternative bin sizes include:
For more information you can download the Domestic Waste Service: Bin Form from the bottom of this page.
As well as our weekly kerbside collection service, we have many other services available to deal with all types of waste.
We’re making it easier for residents to reduce rubbish, sort waste properly and recycle more.
Bin collection calendar
A printable version of your personalised calendar is currently unavailable. Take a screen shot to print or call customer service on 4780 5000 for assistance.
Click here for your personalised bin collection calendar.
Blue Mountains Waste App
You can also download our FREE Blue Mountains Waste App to access:
Tips to ‘get it right on bin night’
Your household bin collection takes place on the same day every week.
Each week you will take out two bins. Your red garbage bin with either your green garden bin OR your yellow recycling bin. This is because recycling and garden waste collections take place on alternate weeks.
Check the sticker on the side of your green garden bin to see if it is a Week A or Week B collection. You can reference this against the bin collection calendar.
Make sure your bins are on the kerb by 5am on your collection day and stay out until emptied. Also ensure all bin weights are kept to under 90Kg.
Download our bin collection calendar or call us on (02) 4780 5000 to find out your collection day.
Check the illustration below for tips to 'get it right on bin night'. Otherwise the trucks may not be able to empty your bins.
Your red bin is for your weekly kerbside garbage collection. We’ve recently reduced the size of the red garbage bin as this is the waste that goes to landfill.
Regular bin audits show us:
We want to encourage residents to view their red bin as a last resort.
If you have considered the following options, and landfill is the only way to go, then place the waste in your red bin.
Your yellow bin is for your kerbside recycling, collected every fortnight. This is for all household recyclable packaging.
Please note each local Council may accept different items for recycling.
In the Blue Mountains, the following items CAN go in your yellow recycling bin:
These items CAN’T go in your yellow recycling bin:
Call the recycling hotline for more 1300 769 746.
What about the new return and earn scheme?
The NSW Government’s largest litter reduction scheme ‘Return and Earn’ started on 1 December, 2017. The Container Deposit Scheme enables people to ‘return and earn’ by returning used beverage containers to nominated collection points to receive a 10c return per container.
You can continue to place your drink containers in your yellow lid bin for recycling as usual. Kerbside recycling remains very important to our community. Return and Earn is designed to complement kerbside recycling by reducing litter and encouraging people to recycle drink containers when away from home.
Please note - if you put your eligible containers in your household recycling bin, you won’t receive the NSW Government’s 10 cent refund.
For more information about the scheme please visit Return and earn.
Your green bin is for your fortnightly kerbside garden vegetation collection. This is for any garden vegetation you can’t use or compost at home such as grass clippings, weeds and prunings.
In the Blue Mountains, the following items CAN go in your green bin:
These items CAN’T go in your green bin:
Call the garden waste hotline for more 1300 769 746.
From 1 July 2022, Council will be trialing several additional waste and recycling services.
This is to provide initiatives that allow more flexibility and convenience around our existing waste and recycling services and to support everyone to prepare for the bushfire season. Council is supporting everyone to prepare by providing a chipping service in August and weekly green bin collection in September. Council is also providing an option for facility drop off for bulky household waste.
During the month of September, every household will be receiving two extra collections, making it a weekly green bin service from Monday, 5 September 2022 to Friday, 30 September.