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Food and Garden Waste - New Services
In June 2021 we introduced a food and garden waste collection service for more than 9000 houses and single-storey apartment blocks. This is part of our commitment to improve our waste and recycling services and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. As the first step in a municipality-wide rollout, standalone houses and single-storey apartments received new kitchen caddies, compostable liners and 120-litre food and garden waste bins. This means almost 500 tonnes of organic waste has been diverted from landfill.
Our food and garden waste bins are collected weekly on your usual collection day. These have a lime green lid.
If your property is eligible for a food and garden waste service, your recycling collection (yellow lid) will have moved to a fortnightly collection. If you have chosen to opt out of the food and garden waste service, your recycling will remain fortnightly.
Residents are entitled to a 120 or 240 litre recycling bin. You can upgrade your recycling bin to a 240 litre bin for free by submitting an online request or calling 9658 9658.
Recycling bin (yellow lid)From 5 July, these are now collected fortnightly.
Zoom in on your street on the map below to find out whether you are in Recycling Area A or Recycling Area B, and check your recycling bin collection week on the corresponding calendar.
Phase two of our rollout starts in November 2021, to include almost 650 new properties. All properties with individual bins stored within their residential address will now receive the new the food and garden waste service.
The next focus is to deliver the service to residents in multiple unit dwellings between two and five storeys.
We will conduct site and waste audits at some of these properties in the coming months. This will help develop a boutique approach to delivering the weekly food and garden waste service to these properties from March 2022 onwards.
How you can get involved
If you reside in one of these properties and would like to help us implement the service in your building, get in touch with our friendly Food and Garden Waste team by filling in this form.
High-rise buildings in Melbourne can provide some of the most complex challenges in food organics collection. We will soon announce a pilot program to divert food organic waste from landfill using innovative technology. We have partnered with the City of Port Phillip to conduct a feasibility study into:
- Waste management services across various high-rise buildings.
- The most common waste management services in high-rise buildings
- Factors which influence food organic waste removal and collection methods.
This information will be used to develop plans to service Melbourne high-rises with a food waste collection service efficiently.