Residential bin collection
Over the upcoming Christmas and New Year period, collections will take place as follows:
Christmas week
- Thursday (Christmas Day) collections will be completed on Friday 26th December
- Friday’s usual collections will be completed on Saturday 27th December
New Year’s week
- Thursday 1st January collections will be completed on Friday 2nd January
- Friday’s collections will be completed on Saturday 3rd January
Please note: Maldon Transfer Station will be closed on Friday 26th December (Boxing Day).
Council provides a kerbside residential waste and recycling collection to certain areas.
Currently, there are two sizes of general waste bins:
- 80 litre bin costs $478.00 per year
- 140 litre bin costs $694.00 per year
Charges appear on annual rates notices.
The kerbside waste service includes a recycling bin, which only comes in 240 litre size. Additional bins are not available.
If you would like to upsize or downsize your waste bin, please complete the form Request a different size rubbish bin.
If you would like to request a new kerbside waste service, please complete the form Add a new collection service.
Find your bin day
General waste (red lid) bins are collected weekly. Recycling (yellow lid) bins are collected fortnightly on the same day as the red lid bins.
To find out your waste collection day, go to our Find your bin collection day page.
How to place your bins
- Place bins out before 6.00am on your collection day (i.e. place out the night before)
- Place bin close to the gutter with the handles facing your house
- Place your garbage and recycling bins at least one metre apart
- Place only approved recyclables in the recycling bin
- Please do not overfill or place anything on top of the bins
- After collection place your bins back inside your property boundary
What goes in each bin?
It is important that you place the right items in each bin.
Visit our What goes in each bin? page for more information on how to organise your garbage and recycling. If you're still not sure about how to dispose of an item, visit our A-Z guide to waste and recycling.
Food and garden waste
We do not currently provide a home collection service for organic (garden and food) waste.
We are investigating ways to best collect and process (recycle) food scraps and garden waste. In the meantime we encourage home composting and worm farming.
Outside the free green waste disposal period, you can take your garden waste (not food waste) to the Castlemaine and Maldon transfer stations for a fee depending on the weight of the green waste.