Staying with Council's waste services

Your new recycling bin is on its way
If you're staying with Council's commercial waste service, you'll soon receive a 240L yellow recycling bin, collected fortnightly.
What to do: Bring it in, start using it, and check your collection schedule below.

Download the 2026/27 commercial waste calendar(PDF, 513KB) for your collection weeks.

This page explains what’s changing and what businesses on Council's commercial waste service need to do. 

Please note, businesses that haven't told us they're moving to a private provider will be moved across to this service.

At a glance

• New yellow recycling bin starts rolling out from 23 June 2026.
• Landfill bin lids changed to red lids from 23 June 2026.
• Fortnightly collections for landfill and recycling from 1 July 2026.

• No more weekly or twice-weekly services from 1 July 2026.

What's happening

From 1 July 2026, Council's standard commercial waste service will include:

• 1 × 240L landfill bin (red lid), collected fortnightly

• 1 × 240L recycling bin (yellow lid), collected fortnightly.

Weekly and twice-weekly collections will no longer be available.

If you don't currently have a recycling bin, we'll deliver a yellow bin to your business address.

Your landfill bin lid will be updated to a red lid to match standard services.

What businesses need to do

1. For your landfill bin

• Leave it out on collection day for up to 48 hours

• Bring it in after the lid has been changed.

2. When your recycling bin arrives

• Check the sticker on the bin to make sure it matches your address.

• Bring it onto your property as soon as possible.

3. Before 1 July

• Check your alternating collection weeks on the commercial waste calendar.

• Start separating recycling from landfill.

Who will receive a recycling bin

You'll get a yellow recycling bin if you:

• are staying with Council's commercial waste service
• don't already have a recycling bin

• haven't told us you're moving to a private provider.

Changes to how often your bins are collected

From 1 July, landfill and recycling bins will be collected on alternating weeks. 

This means one week you'll put out the landfill bin, and the next week you'll put out the recycling bin.

Download the 2026/27 commercial waste calendar(PDF, 513KB) for your collection weeks.

2026/27 commercial waste calendar(PDF, 513KB)

Need more bins?

You can request a maximum of 1 additional landfill bin and 1 additional recycling bin for an annual fee that will appear on your rates notice. 

Request an additional bin

What goes in your recycling (yellow lid) bin

✅ Accepted items

• Paper and cardboard (flatten boxes)
• Glass bottles and jars (empty, lids on)
• Hard plastic containers (clean)

• Aluminium and steel cans, foil (scrunch foil into a ball)

❌ Do not put in your recycling

• Food waste
• Soft plastics

• General rubbish

Do not put batteries in ANY bin. Find a battery drop-off site.

You can also search individual items on the A-Z guide to recycling  

A–Z recycling guide

Avoid contamination

To keep your service running:

• Rinse containers where possible
• Flatten cardboard

• Keep general waste out

Bins with contamination may not be collected.

Transition steps