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Waste & Recycling - Urban Services

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 57 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.

 
Zone Collection Calendars for the Kiama Community
1

Kiama Heights/Gerroa (east and west of South Kiama Drive, south of David Smith Place; Gerroa township and south of Elambra round-about.)
Front and back (pdf 865 KB)
2

Kiama township central (area north of Barney Street and west of the Princes Highway, Gipps Street and Bombo (Hutchinson Street only)
Front and back (pdf 811 KB)

3

Kiama Downs (east of Riverside Drive, south of Eureka Avenue, excluding Holt St & Johnston St premises east of North Kiama Dr)
Front and back (pdf 814 KB)
4

Minnamurra/Kiama Downs (North of Eureka Ave, Eureka Ave, Holt St & Johnson St between North Kiama Dr & Eureka Ave. West of railway line including Oxley Ave to Riverside Dr)
Front and back (pdf 815 KB)

5

Kiama Downs (west of Riverside Drive)

Front only (pdf 524 KB)

6

Kiama (East side of railway line and south side of Bonaira Street)
Front and back (pdf 814 KB)

7

Gerringong (west of Fern Street)
Front and back (pdf 815 KB)

8

Gerringong (east of Fern Street)
Front and back (pdf 816 KB)

9

Kiama (south of Barney Street, north of Bonaira Street, east and west of the Princes Highway, South Kiama Drive up to David Smith Place)
Front and back (pdf 818 KB)

10

Jamberoo/Kiama (Spring Creek area west of Spring Creek Drive)
Front and back (pdf 823 KB)



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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).


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.

 

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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).

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Last updated: Tuesday 9 April, 2013


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