Merri-bek's new 4-bin service is here

The way you use your bins at home has changed.

You need to sort your waste into 4 different bins:

• Food and garden organics (light green lid) collected weekly
• General rubbish (red or dark green lid) collected weekly
• Mixed recycling (yellow lid) collected fortnightly/every 2 weeks
• Glass recycling (purple lid) collected monthly/every 4 weeks.

You can now change the size of your bin. Upsize or downsize your food and garden organics, mixed recycling or glass recycling bin capacity.

Click or tap on the hot spots in the image below to explore the changes to your bins, including what can now go in each bin.

The Victorian Government is standardising household waste and recycling services across the state. All Victorian council kerbside services will move to a 4-bin system.

The 4-bin service will help reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill and improve the quality of recyclables in Victoria.

For more information on our new 4-bin service, visit our main website: merri-bek.vic.gov.au/bins

For information on how these changes might affect you, scroll down to explore our household personas.

Small acts make a big impact

It might seem like a small thing to sort your waste into 4 bins, but it makes a big impact when we all do it correctly.

Recycling well and reducing waste helps keep valuable resources out of landfill, so they can be turned into new things, like glass jars, mulch and compost.

Food thrown into your general rubbish bin ends up in landfill, which creates greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. By putting food waste in the food and garden organics bin, we can almost halve the amount of waste sent to landfill.

The new 4-bin service can help us get closer to our goals of zero waste to landfill and zero carbon emissions.