Hard and green waste collection

Collections have started.

See below for a rough guide on when your collection will be in your area. Flyers will be delivered to your mailbox soon with the week of your streets hard waste collection.

6–10 May collection
Pakenham (South of Princess Highway, East of Cardinia Road), Pakenham South, Officer South, Cardinia (North of Ballarto Road), Rythdale, Nar Nar Goon, Tynong, Koo Wee Rup North (North of Ballarto Road and Bunyip River Road)

13–17 May collection
Pakenham (North of Princess Highway, East of Pakenham Road) Gembrook, Nar Nar Goon North, Maryknoll, Tynong North, Garfield North, Garfield, Tonimbuk, Bunyip North, Bunyip (North of Nar Nar Goon - Longwarry Road and Bunyip River Road), Longwarry North.

20–24 May collection
Officer, Beaconsfield, Beaconsfield Upper, Guys Hill, Dewhurst, Pakenham (West of Pakenham Road), Pakenham Upper (West of Pakenham Road).

27–31 May collection
Mount Brunett, Emerald, Cockatoo, Clematis, Menzies Creek. Avonsleigh, Nangana, Pakenham Upper (North of Bourkes Creek Road).

3–7 June collection
Dalmore, Koo Wee Rup, Bayles, Cora Lynn (South of Bunyip River Road), Vervale, Monomeith, Modella, Caldermeade, Lang Lang, Yannathan, Catani, Iona, Bunyip (South of Bunyip River Road and Nar Nar Goon Longwarry Road).

Please note this is a rough guide and not an exact representation of when your street is due for collection. See your hardwaste flyer or contact our customer service on 1300 787 624 for the exact dates.

*Two cubic metres of waste will be collected and excess waste will be rejected. To calculate your hard waste size, measure length, width and height in metres, and multiply them to check your overall volume.

Green waste that is put out with the hard waste collection (not in the regular green waste bins) must be:

tied in bundles
less than 150 millimetres in diameter
less than 1.5 metres in length
able to be lifted by one person
weeds will be collected if placed in boxes which will be emptied and left behind.

Most items put out for hard waste collection ends up in landfill, which impacts the environment and wastes resources.

Options for dealing with items you no longer need:
Sell it
Have a garage sale or use an auction website such as eBay or QuickSales.

Trade it or give it away
Use a website such as ReUse Moose, Casey Freecycle, Freecycle Melbourne, Gumtree (Cardinia area) or Yoink it at Yoink!

Give it to charity!
Diabetes Victoria will pick up items for free.
VisitCouncil's community directory for local charities in the area that might also accept goods.

Recycle your e-waste
Bring it to the e-waste recycling day.
Visit the Federal Government's E-waste Portal for more information.

Recycle it
Our new recycling service allows pots and pans, and even plastic toys, to be placed in the yellow lid bin. So now there's even less need to send broken goods to landfill.