Clean-up collections

Council provides residents with one free pre-booked clean-up collection per financial year in addition to the scheduled collection dates.

Residents can pay for additional pre-booked collections if required to a maximum of 2m³ of materials per collection. This can be used to dispose of general household goods OR vegetation, but cannot be used for a mixture of the two. You must specify which service you want when booking.

For current fees, see Fees and Charges.

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For ALL pre-booked clean-up collections:

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• No more than 2m³ of materials will be collected. Items that have not been collected must be removed and disposed of promptly.
• Materials can only be placed on the nature strip outside your property on the Sunday night of your collection week, but collection is Monday to Friday of that week.
• Items must not be longer than 1 metre
• For safe collection, items must be liftable by two people. This excludes bulky items like treadmills, pianos, and snooker tables.
• All groups of items left on kerbsides for collection must be labelled with a Pre-booked Clean-up label(PDF, 48KB).
  Note: If you are unable to print the labels, please attach a piece of paper to both the street-facing and footpath-facing sides of the group of items. The label should identify the items as “For Clean-up” and include the date of the Sunday specified by Council, your address and booking reference number.

Household Goods

Council will collect

• Household furniture
•  Small appliances
•  Soft furnishings
• Carpet and linoleum (must be cut into 1 metre lengths and bundled. Maximum 0.5m³)
• Other non-recyclable household items
• Whitegoods and metal items, e.g. Fridge/freezer, washing machine.
•  Mattresses/foam

Council will NOT collect

• General household waste
• Small household items
•  Cardboard
• Vegetation, dirt, stones and sand
•  TVs and Computers
• Car batteries and car parts
• Tyres
• Building materials, including bricks, concrete and tiles
• Liquids, including paint, chemicals and oil
•  Asbestos
• Gas bottles
• Hazardous materials, including volatile liquids, medical waste and explosives
• Mirrors and sheets of glass

•  Polystyrene (Styrofoam)

Vegetation

Council will collect:

• Tree prunings and loppings
• Untreated timber 
• Christmas trees
• Palings without nails (max 0.5m³)

Council will NOT collect

• Untied/loose vegetation
• Vegetation in plastic bags
• Branches greater than 75mm diameter
• Branches, untreated wood or Christmas trees in sections longer than 1 metre
• Painted or chemically treated timber
• Tree stumps
• Whole wood pallets
• Building timber
• Whole fences
• General garbage
• Timber with nails

Council provides residents with three free scheduled clean-up collections per financial year. These collections are conducted in zones according to a pre-set schedule.

Check your clean-up dates

For ALL scheduled clean-up collections:

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• No more than 2m³ of materials will be collected. Items that have not been collected must be removed and disposed of promptly.
• Materials can only be placed on the nature strip outside your property on the Sunday night of your collection week, but collection is Monday to Friday of that week.
• Items must not be longer than 1 metre
• For safe collection, items must be liftable by two people. This excludes bulky items like treadmills, pianos, and snooker tables.
• All groups of items left on kerbsides for collection must be labelled with a Scheduled clean-up label(PDF, 47KB).
  Note: If you are unable to print the labels, please attach a piece of paper to both the street-facing and footpath-facing sides of the group of items. The label should identify the items as “For Clean-up” and include the date of the Sunday specified by Council.

Council will collect

• Household furniture
• Small appliances
• Soft furnishings
• Carpet and linoleum (must be cut into 1 metre lengths and bundled. Maximum 0.5m³)
• Other non-recyclable household items
• Whitegoods and metal items, e.g. Fridge/freezer, washing machine.
•  Mattresses/foam

Council will NOT collect

•  General household waste
•  Small household items
•  Cardboard
•  Vegetation, dirt, stones and sand
•  TVs and Computers
•  Car batteries and car parts
•  Tyres
•  Building materials, including bricks, concrete and tiles
•  Liquids, including paint, chemicals and oil
•  Asbestos
•  Gas bottles
•  Hazardous materials, including volatile liquids, medical waste and explosives
•  Mirrors and sheets of glass
•  Polystyrene (Styrofoam)

You can find your next clean-up collection date by using our Waste service dates online tool.

No more than two meters squared of materials will be collected and items must not be longer than 1 metre.

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No, this is considered Illegal dumping, anyone caught dumping can be fined $4,000. Please book a free clean-up collection or visit our list of Sustainable options for unwanted items to responsibly recycle, rehome or dispose of household items.

Use our A-Z recycling guide and our list of Sustainable options for unwanted items on how to responsibly recycle, rehome or dispose of household items not accepted for collection through Council's Clean-up service.

Household quantities of chemicals can be dropped off at a free Chemical CleanOut Event or at the Community Recycling Centre (CRC) in Artarmon. 

Council and local pharmacies are partnered to provide free sharps disposal containers and sharps collection for used needles and sharps. See the list of pharmacies participating in the Community Sharps Management Program. For large volumes of sharps, or to dispose of devices that cannot fit inside sharps disposal containers, contact RUSH (Responsive User Service in Health).