Every residential property in Yarra Ranges has one annual hard rubbish collection. Hard rubbish collection dates vary from property to property.
Items for hard rubbish collection must be placed on the nature strip by the Sunday evening prior to the start of your collection week. Materials must not be placed out more than one week prior to your collection week. Late materials will not be collected.
Before considering items for hard waste, consider offering usable items to charity or advertise them online.
Enter your address to: yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Environment/Waste/Hard-rubbish to find your collection date.
Items we will collect at your allocated hard rubbish collection time include:
– Unwanted furniture that cannot be donated or reused by others
– Metals
– Whitegoods
– Electronic waste – eg. computers, televisions, monitors, all other battery and power-operated items and items with an electrical cord
– Mattresses
– Help to minimise waste in our community – please don’t put useful items out in your hard rubbish collection!
Donate your useful items to charities, sell or giving away items via websites like Facebook Marketplace or Gumtree, or give to a friend.
This will help to reduce the natural resources used to make new items and protect the environment.
“Hard Waste” means household waste items not suitable for collection in the regular kerbside bin garbage and recyclables collections.
These items are often large, bulky or otherwise difficult to dispose of in regular bin collections.
To ensure your items are collected your waste must be separated into distinct piles: hard waste, metals, e-waste, bundled branches and mattresses.
Each pile must be no more than 3 cubic metres.
Hard waste
To ensure your items are collected, your hard waste must be:
Up to 10 pieces of timber (not fencing)
Glass, shower screens and mirrors must be wrapped and clearly marked as glass
TV’s, computers and electronic equipment
Metals, whitegoods and equipment (fridge doors removed)
To ensure your metals are collected, your metals must be:
Maximum length of 1.5 metres for each individual item
Maximum weight of 50kg for each individual item
Branches
To ensure your branches are collected, your branches must be:
Up to 20 bundles of branches
Each bundle is no larger than 1.5 metres long and 200 millimetres wide
Tree limbs (75mm – 200mm diameter). Straight clean logs with side branches removed. Maximum 1.5m long.
Branches (up to 75mm diameter) tied with non-plastic string. Maximum 1.5m long.
