Rubbish bins

Find out about Brisbane City Council's recycling services, how to order bins for new houses and get damaged bins repaired or replaced. Learn what you can put in your bins and how to order a larger recycling bin. 

Impacts to bin collections due to Tropical Cyclone Alfred

Regular weekly kerbside bin collections will be restricted to general waste bins only on Wednesday 5 March 2025 and citywide bin collection will stop from Thursday 6 March 2025 until further notice. Find out more about impacts to Council services.

Find what you need

Find out what you can put in your rubbish, green waste and recycling bins. Also find information on what household items you can take to Council's resource recovery centres.

Green waste recycling bins are an easy and affordable way to dispose of lawn clippings, prunings and leaves.

Make recycling easier by ordering a larger recycling bin for your home.

Council will repair damaged bins for free. Find out about bin repairs, stolen bins and abandoned bins.

Recycling your food scraps, garden clippings and other green waste is a powerful way to reduce your waste to landfill and greenhouse gas emissions. Find out about Council's food waste recycling service pilot, which involved households on eight existing green waste collections routes in north and south Brisbane.

If you've recently finished building your new residential property, you can order your bins online. 

Council's provides a user-pays recycling bin service for Brisbane businesses.

Schools that have a waste collection service with Council can apply for Council's school recycling service.

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