 Council's Waste Services are designed to help the community re-use its resources. We are strengthening our commitment to reducing the City's impact on the environment by actively recycling and reprocessing as much waste as possible and reducing the amount of rubbish sent to landfill areas. Reducing landfill lessens the impact waste has on our local environment. Council's extensive waste services are detailed in the links below.
Business Waste Collection Service
General Clean-Up Service
Clothing Bin Locations
Free Green Waste Drop-off Service
On-call Heavy Household Item Service
On-call Clean-up Service
Recycling Process
Recycling Service
WSN's Rockdale Waste Centre
Garbage and Organics Recovery Service
Free Medical Sharps Disposal Service
New Resident Services
Waste Hotline
Free Recycling Tours
Construction and Demolition Waste
New Garbage and Recycling Collection Days
Council will be making changes to your waste and recycling collection days as of 31 May 2010. The Rockdale City LGA has been divided into 2 zones, one east of the railway line, the other to the west. These 2 zones have been divided again into 2 subzones for alternate recycling collections. Depending on where you live, please consult the following links to determine when your garbage and recycling collection days are.
Single Dwellings, Villas, Townhouses and Dual Occupancies
Listed below is your new collection day that will commence from Monday 31 May 2010. Your second recycling calendar will highlight the week your recycling will be collected and the zone area that will apply to you. The second recycling calendar will be letterboxed dropped during the week commencing Monday 10 May 2010.
Garbage and Organics Recovery Service (Red Lid)
Your Garbage & Organics Recovery bin will be collected once a week on Monday mornings or Thursday mornings. Bins need to be placed on the kerb the night before collection. This bin is dark green in colour with a red lid.
Recycling Service (Yellow Lid)
Your Recycling service will be collected once a fortnight on Monday mornings or Thursday mornings.
This bin is dark green in colour with a yellow lid. Please check the reverse side of the recycling calendar which identifies what type of items you can place in your yellow lid recycle bin.
To ensure the smooth delivery of these services we recommend that bins be placed with a 300mm clear space each side of the bin. We also require 4.5 metres clear space above the bin so placing the bin under trees requires consideration.
These changes in collection will reduce the number of collection days of each Council within the St George Region which includes Kogarah City Council and Hurstville City Council that forms the St George Region waste and recycling collection contract.
By reducing the collection days in each Council area, there will be less traffic congestion throughout the week, greenhouse gas emissions, reduction to Council’s carbon footprint and less impact on the environment.
Multi-Unit Dwellings
Garbage and Organics Recovery Service (Red Lid)
Your Garbage & Organics Recovery bin will be collected twice a week on Monday mornings and Thursday mornings from your unit block if you have a wheel in wheel out service.
Recycling Service (Yellow Lid)
Your Recycling service will be collected once a week on Monday mornings or Thursday mornings. This bin is dark green in colour with a yellow lid. The Council will soon be providing new bin bay posters to all units including a recycling brochure to all residents in their letterboxes which identifies what type of items you can place in your yellow lid recycle bin.
New Waste Service
Council's new waste service will ensure collected waste that can be reused or recycled will increase over the next 10 years from 25 per cent to 70 per cent. Click here to watch the video.
As a result of the new waste service, residents have two garbage bins that will do it all:
- A red-lidded Garbage & Organics Recovery Bin for food scraps and green waste, and
- A yellow-lidded Recycling Bin for paper, glass, plastics, aluminium and steel (no plastic bags).
Recycling using your yellow-lidded bin helps the environment by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, reducing energy use and by saving water. The greenhouse gas benefit from Rockdale’s annual recycling is equivalent to removing 1200 cars from the road.
By processing the materials in the new red-lidded bin using new technology, Rockdale will further reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas footprint by 11,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (compared to landfilling) which would have the same effect as removing another 2600 cars from the road.
Recycling benefits calculated using Department of Environment and Climate Change’s Environmental Benefits of Recycling Calculator, July 2006
Rockdale Council's newest recycling mascot recently starred in his own 30 second commercial. You can watch and download the ads by following the link to the Steel Can Steve Ad page.
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