We're trialling fortnightly rubbish collections.

We'll collect your rubbish bin every 2 weeks instead of every week.

Your rubbish bin has a red or dark green lid.

We'll support you to put all your food waste into your food and garden organics (FOGO) bin instead of your rubbish bin. This will reduce waste in your rubbish bin.

We'll also give you a larger 120-litre rubbish bin. This will be our new standard size. Or, in February 2025, you can choose to have a smaller or larger bin if you need it.

There will be options for a larger bin at no extra cost for eligible households, like those with young children in nappies or large families. Click here to find out if you're eligible

Even though you're doing a great job with the 4-bin service, there's more we can do.

We've noticed a lot of food scraps still being put in rubbish bins - about a third of what's in there is food waste. That's like throwing out 5 meals every week!

It costs more to send food waste to landfill than it does to turn it into compost.

More than 20 Victorian councils now collect rubbish bins every 2 weeks. They’ve found that people use their FOGO bin more for food scraps.

Fortnightly rubbish collections cuts down on waste ending up in landfill, lowers climate pollution AND saves ratepayers money in collection and landfill costs.

Watch the video below to find out how your food and garden waste is turned into compost and used by farms and gardens to help grow the food we eat.

The trial starts 1 July 2025.

There will be no rubbish collection in the first week of July.

Your first rubbish collection as part of the trial will be in the second week of July – the week commencing 7 July 2025 – on your usual collection day.

3,000 households, apartments, units, businesses, sports clubs and other venues that use Council's waste services will take part.

• Sign up for regular e-mall or text updates

• Look out for more information in your mailbox in February 2025. We'll invite you to choose your preferred rubbish bin size at this time.

• Start learning how to cut down your waste and use your food and garden organics (FOGO) bin more.
  Visit our Reduce your household waste page to get started.

• Before the trial begins, you'll receive more information on what to expect and how to pick the size of your rubbish bin.

Trial areas are in Hadfield and Brunswick/Brunswick West - see the map below