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Using Your Green and Yellow-top Bins

Essential information about your domestic green and yellow-top bins

Bin Collection

 

Green Bin
  • Your Green Bin is collected on a weekly basis on the day highlighted according to your suburb on the map below.
  • Your green bin is collected on your day EVERY WEEK
Yellow-top Bin

 

 

Where to place your bins

  • Please place your bin on the verge no more than 1.5 metres from the kerb with the lid opening to the road and the wheels on your house side by 6.00am of the morning of collection without blocking footpaths or driveways.
  • Bins should be placed this way to ensure that the automatic arm on the collection vehicles is able to reach, lift and empty them and to keep footpaths clear.
  • Place your yellow recycling bins half a metre from the green bin to allow clears access for the side loading services vehicle's grab arm.
  • Please do not overfill your bin as the rubbish and recycling truck hydraulics cannot lift bins weighing over 70kg, or those overfull with the lid open.
  • You bin lid must close so that the contents do not spil when it is lifted or the lid does not blow opening causing street litter.
  • Please ensure that bins are not under a tree canopy, parked cars, poles, power lines etc. Also ensure your bins are not place anywhere near reticulation systems.

About your Green Bin

This bin is for all organic and general household waste (including grass clippings and small prunings).
The RRRC In-Vessel Composting Facility turns this material into high quality compost for use in local farming.

For this reason, please DO NOT put the following items into your Green Bin.

NO Glass (all glass goes into the Yellow Top Recycling Bin)

NO hot ashes (to prevent melting and fires in collection vehicles)

NO construction, demolition & Earth materials (no bricks, building materials, sand, soil, concrete, rocks or asbestos)

NO garden hoses (please dispose of these in the bulk junk verge collection)

 

NO hazardous Household Waste: petrol, flammable liquids, paints, motor oils & fluids, garden chemicals & poisons, pool chemicals, cleaners, acids, bleaches & ammonia, medicines, gas cylinders.(Small quantities can be disposed of free of charge - see hazard waste information on this page)

Handy Hints

  • Each bin has a serial number stamped on the side - this number is recorded against the property to which the bin was delivered to.  Take a note of the number, it may assist you to identify your bin if it is misplaced after collection
  • Return bins to your property as soon as possible
  • Store bins in a shaded area
  • Clean bins regularly
  • Wrap all moist and perishable foods in newspaper before placing in your green bin
  • Freeze all smelly food and place in your green bin the night before collection
  • Put lawn clippings and small prunings on top of the material in your green bin to prevent jamming
  • If you are moving house, please leave the bin at the original premise for the new occupier

  • Report any bin damage or theft to Waste Services on 1300-635-845

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About your Yellow-top Bin

This bin is collected every fortnight on the SAME DAY as your Green Bin is collected.

Kerb side recycling commenced in the City of Melville in July 1992. The fortnightly co-mingled system was chosen as the most user friendly after trialling different collection methods and systems. The contents from your yellow topped bin are sorted and baled at the RRRC and sold for reprocessing.

Click here to see bin collection days, maps, dates and information

These items CAN be recycled:

Glass (broken or not, includes used light bulbs - incandecent only)

Plastics* (shrink wrap, bread bags, margarine or butter containers and plastic shopping bags)

Steel/Tin/Aerosol cans

Aluminium Cans

Newspapers and glossy magazines, writing and scrap paper

Liquid Paperboard drink containers

Cardboard boxes (including pizza cardboard boxes)

* always give food containers a light rinse prior to placing into yellow top bins.

 

Please DO NOT pollute your recycling bin with these:

 

Garden refuse (this should go in the green bin)

Liquid of any kind

Household food waste

Polystyrene containers eg. meat trays

Batteries

Paint or chemicals

Cellophane

Cling wrap (e.g. Glad wrap)

Garden Hoses (please dispose of these in the bulk junk verge collection)

Clothing