To assist with fire prevention, Adelaide Hills Council offers a number of free green organic drop off days throughout the year. Residents are invited to drop off green organic waste to the prescribed locations on the dates scheduled below.
Outside of these dates, green organic waste can be disposed for a fee at the Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre.
Upcoming free green organics drop off days
Residents can drop green organics to the Heathfield Depot, Woodside Depot and Gumeracha Depot on the dates scheduled below.
Drop off locations are open 9:00am – 4:00pm on scheduled days.
Proof of residency is required.
Please note that residents are required to unload their green waste. Council staff are not required to assist but can do so at their own discretion.
- Saturday 29 July 2023
- Wednesday 23 August 2023
- Saturday 26 August 2023
- Saturday 9 September 2023
- Sunday 10 September 2023
- Wednesday 11 October 2023
- Saturday 14 October 2023
- Sunday 15 October 2023
- Saturday 18 November 2023
- Sunday 19 November 2023
- Wednesday 6 December 2023
- Saturday 9 December 2023
- Sunday 10 December 2023
Adelaide Hills Council are offering a free load of mulch when residents drop off a paid load of organics or general waste, at the Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre.
On an 'Extreme' or 'Catastrophic' fire danger day, this service will be closed if the fire danger rating is 'Extreme 75 or above' for the 'Mount Lofty Ranges' district.
Items that are accepted
Clean residential green organics including grass clippings, prunings, leaves, small branches (up to 100mm diameter). Loads are limited to a 7x5 trailer size (no limit to visits made).
Items that are not accepted
Commercial or truck loads of materials, waste or hard rubbish, and Declared or serious environmental weeds. Click here for a comprehensive list of organics that are not accepted. If you have access to a kerbside green organics bin the items listed in the document can be placed in there. Green bin waste is composted whereas material collected during drop off days is mulched.
Drop off locations
Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre
- Type
- Council Depot
- Address
- Scott Creek Road, Scott Creek
Heathfield Resource Recovery Centre is operated by Adelaide Hills Region Waste Management Authority on behalf of Adelaide Hills Council to provide recycling and waste resource recovery services where customers can recycle or dispose of waste.