What goes in my bins?

Households in townships and rural areas receive a fortnightly landfill/general rubbish collection of their red-lidded bin.

What can be placed in your landfill bin?

Customer recycling hubs at Clunes, Creswick, Daylesford and Trentham customer service centres-libraries accept batteries, small e-waste, milk/juice lids, light globes and printer cartridges for no charge. 

Mixed recycling is a fortnightly kerbside collection of your 240L yellow-lidded bin. 

Remember – place recyclable material in loose, NOT in bags. All items should be rinsed and free of food.

What can I recycle?

Plastic items that are currently recyclable are those with numbers 1PET, 2HDPE and 5PP on the item (check on the bottom). 

You might also see the following symbols (Australasian Recycling Label) on items you buy. This aims to make it clear what to do with packaging but there are differences across states and councils on what is collected currently. So, it will give you an indication of what you can do but for rigid plastics and long-life containers in our region it is not always accurate (use the type of plastic 1PET, 2HDPE or 5PP on the container as the best guide) and keep long life cartons out. 

Items placed in a kerbside recycling bin are taken to a Materials Recovery Facility for sorting before being sent for processing. 

There are other materials that are recyclable but not through your kerbside bin. For more information visit other waste.

Township properties receive a weekly 120L lime green-lidded food and garden organics bin. For more information on this service including videos for tips and answers Frequently Asked Questions visit Your organics bin explained.

What can I put in my organics bin?

Avoid a smelly bin

Kitchen caddy – drain liquid from leftovers before putting them in your caddy, avoid placing the caddy in direct sunlight, freeze anything very smelly until collection day.

Kerbside bin – put garden clippings at the bottom to collect drips from food organic material. Try not to store your wheelie bin in all-day sun if possible.