Victoria · 4 suburb guides
Schedule data last verified: July 2026
Your bin night depends on your street, not just your suburb. An address search shows the exact dates for your property.
Enter my addressSuburb guides below cover the usual collection night and bin setup for each area. Together they are home to around 16,000 people. Postcodes 3233, 3236, 3242, 3250 fall inside the council area.
Kerbside collection in Colac Otway Shire covers three bins. General waste is collected weekly and recycling and garden organics fortnightly.
Bin types and frequencies may vary by property. Enter your address for the confirmed schedule.
Collection nights in Colac Otway Shire vary by street and zone, so the reliable way to get your night is an address search rather than a suburb level guess.
Treat the suburb day as a starting point and confirm your street with an address lookup.
After most public holidays, collections can slide back a day for the rest of that week. How this plays out is covered in the public holiday bin guide.
Colac Otway Shire publishes bin schedules through its waste services portal, the same address lookup that appears on the council website.
When you search an address here, we query that portal directly, so the dates shown match what the council itself would tell you.
Collection nights in Colac Otway Shire vary by street and zone, so the reliable way to get your night is an address search rather than a suburb level guess. Enter your address on Bin Night Tonight to see the exact pickup dates for your street.
Some public holidays push collections back one day for the rest of the week, while others change nothing. Check your address here during a holiday week to see the adjusted dates.
No, zones can split a suburb, and streets near a zone boundary often differ from their neighbours. Searching your address is the reliable way to get your night.
As the local government area responsible for this corner of Victoria, Colac Otway Shire sets bin days, manages the kerbside fleet and handles service changes. Its most populous suburbs covered here are Colac, Apollo Bay and Birregurra. Schedules on this site track the council's published information.
Bin repairs, hard waste bookings and official notices live on the Colac Otway Shire website.
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