Make 2025 your most sustainable year yet! Start the new year right with these 12 top tips to minimise waste.
Upgrade your recycling bin
Make it easy sort through any items you have by putting out the yellow bin for recycling. Order a bigger recycling bin to give you enough space for the extra recycling you have after the holidays.
Get your garden party ready with a green waste recycling service
Have your garden looking its best this year when friends and family pop over. Ordering a green waste recycling bin and using it for lawn clippings, prunings and leaves. You can easily tidy your garden year-round to prepare for severe weather.
Turn your lunch into your garden’s brunch!
Let the scraps from lunch or dinner keep your garden growing by setting up a compost system or worm farm. Take advantage of Council’s cash-back rebate. Or share the love and let your food scraps turn nutrients into soil for our gardens at a community composting hub.
Clean up with waste vouchers
Start the new year fresh and use your waste vouchers at your local resource recovery centre to clean up the yard, shed, and garage.
Enjoy free recycling at your local Resource Recovery Centre
Have the kids turned large cardboard boxes (packages and appliance boxes) into rocket ships or makeshift cubbies? Once they've had their fun, you can drop the boxes off for free at any Council resource recovery centre.
Stand out from the crowd with second-hand style
If you are hosting parties this year, skip single-use items. Instead, decorate your table with dishes and glassware from the Council’s Treasure Troves. While you’re there, look out for any bargains, extra cutlery or gift ideas for your family and friends. They’re open every weekend from 8am to 4pm.
Repair and reuse those Christmas decorations
Make your Christmas decorations special keepsakes for years. You can do this by packing them carefully. You can also repaint and restyle old or mismatched decorations. You can also re-use wrapping paper and gift bags.
Never put batteries in bins in bins
Let's keep ourselves and our collection drivers safe this year by keeping batteries out of bins. Place used batteries in a glass jar or container. Then take them to a resource recovery centre or a B-cycle drop-off point. This ensures safe disposal and recycling.
Rain, hail or shine – your bin collection will still happen
We will collect you bin all year round. Even on public holidays. Our wheelie bin collectors stayed busy during the Christmas period and are now ready for a big 2025. If you need, ask a friend or neighbour to put your bin out or bring it in.
Download the Brisbane bin and recycling app
Download the Brisbane bin and recycling app. This A-Z of waste will help you to get the right thing in the right bin when you’re at home or having fun in the sun at one of Council’s parks or public spaces.
Start the new year as a recycling hero
Christmas cards, wrapping paper, tubes, cans and bottles from your holidays can go in your household recycling bin. As usual, you can also put glass, cardboard, plastic, steel and aluminium in your household recycling bin too.
Use sustainable gift wrapping this year
Give 2 gifts in one by reusing scarves or fabric to wrap gifts for any upcoming celebrations.