Waste Education and Resources

To make sure your bins get emptied, please ensure bins are:

• On the verge by 6am on the day of your collection 
• No more than 1m from the kerb
• At least 0.5m apart
• Placed away from trees, parked cars and letter boxes
• Not too heavy and the lids are closed

The grey or red-lidded 240L rubbish bin provided by the City is for general domestic waste only, such as:

• Food organics (food scraps and leftovers)
• Garden organics (grass clippings and other small garden waste)
• Nappies
• Hygiene and sanitary products
• Old/damaged clothing and textiles
• Disposable coffee cups and lids
• Polystyrene
• Soft plastics
• Any other items that can not be recycled in your yellow-lidded bin 

City of Gosnells is one of the first local governments in Australia to divert non-recyclable waste away from landfill and return it to energy. Waste is sent to the Kwinana Energy Recovery facility. 

Yellow-lidded recycling bins are emptied every fortnight. Contents are taken to the Perth Materials Recovery Facility for sorting and baling, ready for transportation off site for further processing. 

Recycle these five:

1. Paper
2. Cardboard
3. Cans
4. Plastic (bottles and containers)
5. Glass (bottles and containers)

Items must be loose, containers rinsed with lids off.

Recycling hubs have been placed at the City's Libraries and the Civic Centre. Items such as aerosol cans, mobile phones and chargers, printer cartridges and light globes can be left at the hubs.

If in doubt, please visit the Recycle Right WA website for more information.

The City provides one general junk waste collection per year, usually in Spring. This enables residents to responsibly dispose of large items that cannot be placed in either kerbside bin, including household furniture (excluding glass), electronic waste, white goods, mattresses, scrap metal, timber and other items that cannot be re-purposed or given away. 

Bulk green waste is collected twice per year around the end of Autumn and the end of Spring. Tree and shrub prunings in pieces of up to 1.5m in length and up to 30cm in diameter are accepted, as are palm trunks in pieces cut to 30cm.

See more information regarding residential verge collections.

Please Note: The City does not issue tip passes.

For alternative waste disposal sites, contact the following sites for information on waste disposal and costs:

• City of Armadale landfill site
• City of Canning waste transfer station
• Recycling near you

The City has produced simple-to-follow guides which are available in 16 different languages. These are perfect for placing on a fridge or wall and are a great way to share information with family and friends. The A4 flyers are available for collection from all City of Gosnells libraries and at the Civic Centre.

Download and print a copy in your language 

English(PDF, 637KB)	Chinese (simplified)(PDF, 629KB)	Hindi(PDF, 543KB)	Punjabi(PDF, 663KB)
Tamil(PDF, 685KB)	Italian(PDF, 536KB)	French(PDF, 537KB)	Arabic(PDF, 550KB)
Urdu(PDF, 686KB)	Bahasa Indonesian(PDF, 537KB)	Burmese(PDF, 553KB)	Vietnamese(PDF, 584KB)
Amharic(PDF, 552KB)	Macedonian(PDF, 558KB)	Farsi(PDF, 685KB)	Tagalog(PDF, 535KB)

Yes, bins are collected on public holidays, except:

• New Year's Day
• Good Friday
• Christmas Day

Waste and recycling bins usually due for collection on New Year's Day, Good Friday and Christmas Day will be emptied the following day.

Additional weekly recycling bin collections will run during Christmas week and the week beforehand.

Each financial year the City provides one general junk collection and two green waste collections.

Find your verge collection dates using our online tool, or by calling the City on 9397 3000. 

The online tool will also provide information about the progress of the verge collections in your area. Check this website for updates regarding verge collections throughout the year. 

Visit general junk and green waste verge collections for more information and guidelines on what will and won't be collected by the City. Please remember to be courteous to your neighbours and do not put your items out for collection more than seven days prior. 

Domestic quantities of flammable liquids, petrol, paints, acids, chemicals, poisons and gas cylinders can be disposed of for free at the following Household Hazardous Waste Disposal locations. 

For more information and options, refer to the section onHousehold Hazardous Waste.

The City does not issue tip passes.

For alternative waste disposal sites, contact the following sites for information on waste disposal and costs:

• Resource Recovery Group
• City of Armadale landfill site
• City of Canning waste transfer station

For alternative waste disposal sites, visit recycling near you.

Please request a replacement bin via our online form if your rubbish or recycling bin:

• is missing
• damaged with a split from normal wear and tear
• needs repair due to a missing lid, a wheel fallen off or has missing lid hinge pins

A member of City staff will be in contact. 

All rateable residential properties within the city are provided with a red or grey-lidded 240 litre rubbish bin and a yellow-lidded 240 litre recycling bin. The City is only able to process requests from the property owner or managing agent. 

Replacement bins: Order a new rubbish or recycling bin

Online Form: Report a missed bin collection

View the missed bin guidelines which provides more information about why your bin may have been missed.

You can help to reduce litter by becoming a Keep Australia Beautiful WA Litter Reporter.

If you see someone littering, report the offence online or via an Apple or Android app.

Register / more information: Keep Australia Beautiful

Eight local governments, including the City of Gosnells, have agreed to supply up to 400,000 tonnes of waste each year to a new waste-to-energy plant in Kwinana. The plant will receive your household waste that would otherwise have been sent to landfill.

Waste to Energy is the process of converting waste products into a form of energy such as heat or steam  which can then be  converted into products such as electricity.

When commissioned later this year, the plant run by ACCIONA will provide a practical solution to two big community challenges:

• Disposing of significant quantities of household rubbish
• Providing additional secure and uninterrupted renewable energy

ACCIONA will use world-class technology to process 400,000 tonnes per year of household waste, significantly reducing CO2 emissions and delivering 36MW of baseload electricity to the grid.  These outcomes are the equivalent of taking 85,000 cars off Perth’s roads and powering 50,000 Perth households every year.

Waste to Energy has the added benefit of being complimentary to recycling, and does not require large behaviour change to be successful. One of the driving factors behind the City's decision to adopt Waste to Energy is the ease of implementation for residents. 

• Details of the types of items placed in waste and recycling bins, and the volume of those items
• Number of items collected that are eligible to be collected under the Container Deposit Scheme (Containers for Change)
• Levels of recyclable items in the general waste bins
• Contamination and recovery rates in recycling

The waste and recycling bin audits are undertaken without notice, to ensure the information collected by the City accurately reflects local residents’ waste disposal and recycling habits. If we told people when an audit would be happening, they might change their habits, and this would provide false results.

The contents of all general waste bins audited are combined in a large pile and sifted through by contractors, who record statistics relating to the items in the bins. The same process is used for the contents of recycling bins. The audit company provides a detailed report to the City after the information they collected has been reviewed and assessed.

The audited waste and recycling material will be sorted into appropriate piles and disposed of through the City’s regular disposal processes.

GIFT to charity, swap or sell

Unwanted, reusable things such as clothes and toys in good condition can be gifted.

Find your nearest charity store or donation bin atCharitable Recycling

You can swap, sell or gift your items using these platforms:

• Buy Nothing Groups
• eBayor Facebook Marketplace
• Gumtree

A great way to donate technological and gaming equipment is to take it to Sam's Spares in Gosnells. Sam's Spares refurbishes and re-gifts the equipment to people in need through a network of peer partners.

RECYCLE through your kerbside recycling bin

Discover ways in which you can recycle items which are prohibited from being placed in either bin. It's important to know what you can place in your recycling bin and what your options are if something cannot be placed in your bin.

You can recycle clean paper, cardboard, steel and aluminium cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles and containers through your yellow-lidded recycling bin. Items must be loose (not contained in boxes or bags), lids removed and free from contamination such as liquids, food residue and excessive tape, for example.

Many beverage containers between 150ml - 3L can be recycled at a Containers for Change refund point. To find out which containers are eligible for a refund, check for the 10c mark on the side of a container or go to the Containers for Change website.

EARTH CYCLE food scraps and garden waste

If you have sufficient space at home and a bit of time, it's easy to turn food scraps and garden waste into compost. Little space is required to maintain a worm farm or bokashi bin which are very efficient ways of processing food waste. What's more, both methods produce products which can boost the soil and garden health. Garden waste can be disposed of through the City's twice yearly garden waste verge collection or can be managed at home with the use of a composting bin. Get a discount on a worm farm, bokashi bin through Switch Your Thinking's Rewards for Residents Program.

If you're not willing or able to manage your food and garden waste at home, you can still earth-cycle by participating in the City of Gosnells GOSFO waste pilot program or a local ShareWaste initiative.

AVOID excess packaging

Use:

• Alternatives to plastic food wrap like glass or stainless steel containers, beeswax wraps and reusable food covers
• Your own water bottle out and refuse bottled water
• Alternatives to disposable straws, plates, cups and cutlery. Keep a reusable set in your bay, glove box or pram.
• Stores which offer package-free or bulk product options.

TAKE items to drop-off points

Items that cannot be disposed of via kerbside bins or verge collection should be taken to various drop-off points.

The City of Gosnells hosts one community waste drop-off day per year at its Operations Centre, usually around the first week of April. This enables residents to drop off difficult to dispose of items such as paint, motor oil, household chemicals, gas cylinders, aerosol cans and car batteries, as well as bulk cardboard, polystyrene, tyres and e-waste.

During the year, residents can take a range of household hazardous waste to one of the WA Government's free-to-use drop-off points (non-commercial waste - 20kg or 20L per material type).

Household batteries can be taken to businesses participating in the B-Cycle battery recycling program. You can also drop off household quantities of aerosol cans, mobile phones and chargers, printer cartridges and light globes to recycling hubs within all the City's libraries and the Civic Centre.