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Free Green Organics Drop-Off Days

Clean, green organics drop-off days help residents prepare for bushfire season and manage green garden waste. The collected materials are turned into high-quality mulch, soil, and compost.

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We offer several free green organics drop-off days throughout the year to help residents prepare for the fire season. All collected material is recycled into high-quality mulch, soil, and compost.

Residents can drop off green waste at on the dates below at the listed locations. Outside of these times, green waste can be taken to the Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre for a fee.

Drop-off locations are open from 9 am to 4 pm on scheduled days. Proof of residency is needed.

Residents must unload their own green waste. Council staff not required to help, but they may do so at their own discretion.

If an ‘Extreme 75 or above’ or ‘Catastrophic’ fire danger day is declared by the CFS, this service will be cancelled

Upcoming drop-off dates

May

  • Saturday 17 May
  • Sunday 18 May
June
  • Sunday 15 June

July

  • Saturday 26 July

August

  • Saturday 23 August
  • Sunday 24 August

September

  • Wednesday 10 September
  • Saturday 13 September
  • Sunday 14 September

October

  • Saturday 18 October
  • Sunday 19 October

November

  • Saturday 15 November
  • Sunday 16 November

December

  • Saturday 6 December
  • Sunday 7 December
  • Wednesday 10 December

Drop-off locations

Accepted items

Clean residential green waste, including prunings, leaves, and small branches (up to 100mm in diameter), is accepted.

Load Size:

Each load must fit within a 7x5 trailer. There's no limit on how many visits you can make.

Items not accepted

To make high-quality mulch, the following items are not accepted during free drop-off days:

Pest plants not accepted:

  • Agapanthus

  • Bamboo / giant reed

  • Blackberry

  • Blue periwinkle

  • Bluebell creepers

  • Boneseed

  • Bridal creeper

  • Cape broom

  • English broom

  • Desert ash

  • Dog / briar rose

  • Gorse / furze

  • Hawthorn

  • Olive

  • Sallow wattle

  • Salvation Jane

  • Sweet pittosporum

  • Tree lucerne / tagasaste

  • Three corner jack

  • Three-cornered garlic

  • Watsonia

  • Willow

Other green waste not accepted:

  • Lawn clippings

  • Palm fronds

  • Poplar

  • Roses

Commercial or truck loads, palm fronds, and declared environmental weeds are not accepted. View a full list of non-accepted organics.

Pest or environmental plants can be disposed of at the Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre for a fee or placed in a green organic kerbside bin. Green bin waste is composted, while material collected on drop-off days is mulched

Recycling process

The Council mulches collected organics and sells it as nutrient-rich mulch. You can buy it at the Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre, located at 32 Scott Creek Road, Heathfield.

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