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Garden Waste Services
We offer a free garden waste collection service for City of Melbourne residents. You can book one garden waste collection per month that will take place on the specified Saturday for your suburb. We’ll collect a maximum of two cubic metres (2 metres x 1 metre x 1 metre) of garden waste per household per month. All the garden waste that we collect goes on to be composted.
Bookings are essential and must be made by the Thursday before your relevant collection weekend.
Please place your garden waste in bundles neatly on the kerb by 6am on the day of your collection. When you make your booking please specify what green waste will be placed out for collection and the location.
We’ll collect anything that grows in your garden:
- bundles of vines, creepers and weeds
- leaves, lawn clippings and flowers (you can place these in a plastic crate or box that we’ll empty out and leave on your nature strip)
- small bundled branches and trunks (no bigger than 1 metre in length and 20 cm in diameter).
We won’t collect any of the following materials that can damage composting equipment or contaminate the compost:
- rubbish
- plastic bags and food packaging
- potting mix, soil and ash
- gardening equipment
- plant pots
- polystyrene and styrofoam.
If your green waste was not collected by 4pm on the booked collection day, you can report it online. Please have the reference number or date of your booking handy.
Residents can drop off garden waste for free at the Citywide Transfer Station and Resource Recovery Centre.
Residents must show a current City of Melbourne address on a rates notice, driver`s licence or utility bill.