Waste & Recycling - Urban Services

• Apply to commence, change or cancel your garbage/recycling service


• Collection calendars
• Household chemical cleanout


• How to use your garbage/recycling service
• Sort it out!
• Green waste collections


• Clean-up collections
• Hire Services
• Stolen Bin


• Return Unwanted Medicines Program (RUM)
• Unwanted mobile phone


• Fridge Buyback
• Minnamurra Waste Depot location

Request for garbage-recycling service, changing my bin size or cancelling my existing service

Kiama Municipal Council offers a waste and recycling service for all residential properties and provides a commercial service as well. If you would like to commence either of these services, please complete the application form and submit to Council.

Application form for residential and/or rural serivce and application form for commercial services (pdf 54 KB) to:

• commence garbage collection
• select recycling service (residential & rural) from Council
• change bin sizes
• cancel the service (residential & rural) from Council

Collection calendars for each residential zone

Council decided it is important to ensure that all residents receive concise, clear and accurate information for garbage, recycling, green waste and clean-up services. Consequently, Kiama Municipality has been divided into ten zones and residents within each zone are given an easy-to-read calendar detailing their respective zone's collection dates. Listed below are the links to each Zone Calendar.

Household chemical cleanout

Household Chemical Clean Out - Find out where and how you can safely dispose of old paint, pool chemicals, garden pesticides - in fact just about any hazardous household material.

How to use your garbage/recycling/greenwaste service

Residents within the Kiama Municipality now have three bins. The red-lidded bin for garbage is collected every week, the yellow-lidded bin for recycling is collected every fortnight with the greenwaste green-lidded bin collected the alternate week. Find out Council’s collection requirements (pdf 87 KB).

Sort it out! What CAN and CANNOT be recycled

Recycling is collected on a fortnightly basis on the alternate fortnight to your greenwaste. Please refer to your waste and recycling calendar for dates. Find out what items CAN & what items CANNOT be recycled (pdf 868 KB).

 

Greenwaste collections

Greenwaste is collected on a fortnightly basis on the alternate fortnight to your recycling. Please refer to your waste and recycling calendar for dates. Find out what the requirements are for green waste collections (pdf 375 KB).

Clean up collections - household kerbside clean up

Collections are scheduled twice a year. Refer to your Waste & Recycling Calendar for dates. The requirements for Clean Up collections are:

• All items to be of a size and weight to be capable of being lifted safely by one person
• No plastic bags, oils, paints, chemicals, broken glass
• No asbestos,building wastes,mattresses,engines, tyres, wardrobes, lounge suites or large items of furniture
• No green waste
• Sort metal items into different piles (dismantle white goods)
• Total maximum quantity 1m3 (1m x 1m x 1m)
• NO E-WASTE

Hire services

Council has a hire service for a variety of Waste & Recycling management. Hiring includes skip bins and mulchers. You are welcome to inspect the services.

What do I do if my bin is stolen?

In the case of stolen or lost bin, please contact Waste Services on
(02) 4237 5148 or email council@kiama.nsw.gov.au.

Return Unwanted Medicines Program (RUM)

By regularly returning old and unwanted medicines to any pharmacy you can help protect your health and environment. Refer to this program to find out how to dispose of unwanted medicines.

How to return your unwanted mobile phone

In Australia, over 12 million people own a mobile phone and exchange it on average, every 2 years. That is a lot of potentially toxic waste in our landfills.

Never put mobile phones into rubbish bins. At landfill the battery breaks down and the cadmium leaks out. This is more toxic in the environment than lead. It is better to make sure they are recycled.

Do not put your mobile phones in your normal household recycling bin. Unwanted mobile phones can only be dropped off for recycling at one of the participating stores listed below:

• Telstra Shellharbour - Shellharbour Square - Ph: 4251 8309
• Optus World Shellharbour - Shellharbour Square - Ph: 4295 4790
• Vodaphone Shellharbour - Shellharbour Square - Ph: 4296 4645

Or at:

Kiama Muncipal Council, Administration Building, 11 Manning Street, Kiama in the Mobile Muster collection tube located in the front foyer.

Fridge Buyback

Save energy and money. The NSW Government has introduced an initiative where your 2nd fridge may qualify for a rebate under the Fridge Buyback program.

Minnamurra Waste & Recycling Centre location

The Minnamurra Waste & Recycling Centre is located on the eastern side of Riverside Drive (Princes Highway), Dunmore, approximately 200 metres north of the Minnamurra Bridge.

Location map (pdf 104 KB).