Bulky waste collections
Council offers a clean up service for bulky household items that are not accepted in the weekly bin service. This service excludes commercial waste.
Residents are entitled to one (1) free pre-booked bulky waste collection and three (3) free scheduled bulky waste collections per calendar year.
Please note our crews will only remove items that two people are able to lift safely.
Council provides residents with one free pre-booked bulky waste collection per calendar year in addition to the scheduled collection dates.
Residents can pay for additional pre-booked collections if required to a maximum of 2m³ of materials per collection. This can be used to dispose of general household goods OR vegetation, but cannot be used for a mixture of the two. You must specify which service you want when booking.
For current fees, see Fees and Charges.
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For ALL pre-booked bulky waste collections:
- No more than 2m³ of materials will be collected. Items that have not been collected must be removed and disposed of promptly.
- Materials can only be placed on the nature strip outside your property on the Sunday night of your collection week, but collection is Monday to Friday of that week.
- Items must not be longer than 2m.
- All groups of items left on kerbsides for collection must be labelled with a Pre-booked Council Bulky Waste Collection label(PDF, 44KB) .
Note: If you are unable to print the labels, please attach a piece of paper to the street-facing side of the group of items. The label should identify the items for "Council Bulky Waste Collection” and include the date of the Sunday specified by Council, your address and booking reference number.
Household Goods
This collection service is for large, bulky household items that can't fit in your red general waste bin
Council will collect
- Household furniture
- Small appliances
- Soft furnishings
- Carpet and linoleum (must be cut into 1m lengths and bundled. Maximum 0.5m³)
- Other non-recyclable household items
- Whitegoods and metal items, e.g. Fridge or freezer, washing machine. Please remove the doors from your whitegoods.
- Mattresses/foam
Council will NOT collect
Vegetation
This collection service is for large, bulky vegetation and green waste that can't fit in your green vegetation bin
Council will collect:
- Bundled and tied garden organics
- Tree prunings and loppings
- Untreated timber
- Christmas trees
- Palings without nails (max 0.5m³)
Council will NOT collect
- Untied/loose vegetation
- Vegetation in plastic bags
- Branches greater than 75mm diameter
- Branches, untreated wood or Christmas trees in sections longer than 1m
- Painted or chemically treated timber
- Tree stumps and logs
- Whole wood pallets
- Building timber
- Whole fences
- General garbage
- Timber with nails
Most collected materials are sent to landfill, please consider selling, donating or giving away good quality items. Read our article Sustainable options for unwanted items for tips on how to dispose of unwanted items sustainably.
You can find your next bulky waste collection date by using our Waste service dates online tool.
No more than two meters squared of materials will be collected and items must not be longer than 1 metre.
Household quantities of chemicals can be dropped off at a free Chemical CleanOut Event or at the Community Recycling Centre (CRC) in Artarmon.
Council and local pharmacies are partnered to provide free sharps disposal containers and sharps collection for used needles and sharps. See the list of pharmacies participating in the Community Sharps Management Program. For large volumes of sharps, or to dispose of devices that cannot fit inside sharps disposal containers, contact RUSH (Responsive User Service in Health).