Waste Management

Council operates a fortnightly kerbside/roadside household garbage and recycling collection service:

Council’s roadside collection service is provided by Thorp Waste on a fortnightly basis.  A collection schedule for your area is provided on this page. The collection service is provided for ratepayers in:

• Bagdad, Mangalore, Pontville
• Campania, Colebrook, Woodsdale, Levendale
• Dysart, Kempton, Melton Mowbray, Broadmarsh, Elderslie
• Oatlands, Tunbridge, Jericho 

Council provide two (2) 240lt wheelie bins. The red lid bin is for waste. The yellow lid bin is for recycling. 

You must only use an approved bin provided by Council for the collection service. 

Additional bins or un-approved bins will not be collected by Thorp Waste.  Ratepayers that continue to place un-approved bins out for collection may receive a notice from Council to cease the practice.

Which bin is which?

The bin with the red lid is your waste bin. The bin with the yellow lid is your recycling bin.

What can't be placed in the kerbside waste wheelie bin?

Hot ashes, oil, paint, chemicals, solvents or other liquids, heavy builder's rubble, car parts, large timber, metal pieces, concrete or bricks, asbestos or other hazardous/toxic materials.

What can go in a recycling bin?

• Unbroken glass bottles/jars (lids and caps removed)
• Aluminium cans and clean foil trays
• Steel cans including empty aerosol, empty or dried paint tins and clean pet food cans
• Cleaned cartons
• Cleaned plastic containers with the triangle symbol 1-7
• Non-soiled pizza boxes
• Clean cardboard (boxes to be flattened or torn into pieces and slid down the sides of the bin)
• Clean newspaper, junk mail and office paper
• Do not put recycling items in plastic bags or tie in bundles.

 What can’t go in a recycling bin?

• Food Scraps
• Organic Waste i.e. plant matter, animal matter
• Nappies or medical matter
• Syringes and other medical matter
• Facial tissues, waxed paper, paper towel, and/or carbon paper
• Plastic bags
• Soiled cardboard food boxes and any soiled food packaging
• Tetra paks and foil lined containers regardless of the recycling symbol – at the moment our processor cannot accept them for recycling
• Meat trays or foam trays
• Squeeze-tube toothpaste/shampoo containers
• Polystyrene or foam
• Cling-film
• Plant pots or trays
• Cigarette cartons/packets
• Drinking glass, window glass, light bulbs or broken glass
• Ceramics, pottery, cookware or crockery
• Clothing or shoes
• Rubbish or other garden or household waste
• Mirrors or window glass, light globes and sheet glass
• Poison bottles
• Motor oil, acid, solvent or chemical containers – these need to be taken to the Mornington Transfer Station
• Asbestos
• Solar panels
• Gas bottles and fire extinguishers
• X rays
• Batteries – car or domestic, e.g. AA
• Items for reuse i.e. for charity

DO NOT PLACE WASTE/UN-APPROVED ITEMS IN THE RECYCLING BIN

Items that are not listed in the  A–Z of Recycling Flyer or as otherwise listed on this page as “recyclable” must not be placed in the recycling bin.  Items (i.e. garbage) will cause the recycling waste stream to become “contaminated”.  The Materials Recovery Facility that sorts and separates the recyclables will penalise Council for high amounts of contaminants. They may even refuse to accept some loads causing the entire amount to be sent to landfill.

Be mindful there are people physically handling and sorting your recyclables by hand. Do not expose these people to hazardous materials such as nappies, animal matter, medical waste, solvents or other chemicals.  

Contaminants in the recycling are taken very seriously by Council, the recycling processor and our waste contractor. Contaminants cause additional costs to Council and the ratepayer.  Contaminants ruin the recycling initiative and good will of ratepayers to “do the right thing”. Contaminants risk people’s health and well-being.

Ratepayers are advised that:

• Council is monitoring what goes in your bins.
• The waste contractor Thorp Waste uses video monitoring in the truck for all waste that is collected.  The video will show any bins that contain contaminants or other un-approved material.  Council is then notified and a notice will be sent to the offending property to cease the practice.
• If a ratepayer/resident continues to place contaminants in the recycling bin then they risk losing the household collection service.

Garbage/Recycling Collection Schedule

A–Z of Recycling Flyer

Collection Requirements:

• Residents are asked to have all bins placed roadside by 6.00 am on the day of collection.
• Refuse is the responsibility of the owner until the contractor collects it. Loose rubbish should be cleaned up by the owner.

Item                                                                                        Price
Replacement Bin 240 litre Waste and Recycling             $80.00