Victoria · 5 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 addressEvery suburb below has its own guide covering typical collection days, bin types and local notes. Together they are home to around 67,000 people. Postcodes 3212, 3214, 3216, 3220 fall inside the council area.
The standard Greater Geelong City household puts out three bins across the cycle: 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 Greater Geelong City vary by street and zone, so the reliable way to get your night is an address search rather than a suburb level guess.
If your street sits near a zone edge, your night can differ from your neighbours two blocks over, so search your address to confirm.
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.
Greater Geelong City runs its own address lookup service for bin schedules.
We built a direct connection to it, so a search here returns the same dates as the council's own tool.
Collection nights in Greater Geelong City 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.
No. Greater Geelong City divides its area into collection zones, and a suburb can straddle more than one. Your address determines your zone and your night.
It depends on the holiday. When collections do shift in Greater Geelong City, everything from the holiday onward usually moves one day later that week.
As the local government area responsible for this corner of Victoria, Greater Geelong City sets bin days, manages the kerbside fleet and handles service changes. Its most populous suburbs covered here are Lara, Belmont and Corio. Schedules on this site track the council's published information.
For anything account related, such as new bins or missed pickups, use the Greater Geelong City website.
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