Using Your Bins

By using your bins correctly, you can reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfill.

Some things don’t belong in any of your bins. For example, batteries can start fires inside our collection trucks. Syringes can injure the staff handling your waste. Chemicals can harm the environment if not disposed of responsibly. And bricks and concrete can make your bin too heavy for our trucks to lift—or cause considerable damage if they do find their way inside our vehicles.

If you're unsure about what you can place in your bins, please call us on (02) 4974 2000 on weekdays between 8am and 5pm or email our Waste Services team.

Your Recycling Bin

Learn what you can put in your yellow lid bin.

Your Garden Organics Bin

Learn what you can put in your green lid bin.

Your General Waste Bin

Learn what you can put in your red lid bin.

Get it right on bin night

Help us to make sure your bins aren't missed on collection day.

City of Newcastle acknowledges that we operate on the grounds of the traditional country of the Awabakal and Worimi peoples.
We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and continuing relationship with the land, and that they are the proud survivors of more than two hundred years of dispossession.
CN reiterates its commitment to address disadvantages and attain justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this community.