Victoria · 4 suburb guides
Schedule data last verified: July 2026
Collection days vary street by street. Enter your address to see the next pickup date for every bin at your place.
Enter my addressPick a suburb for its collection day, bin lineup and local collection notes. Together they are home to around 13,000 people. Postcodes 3450, 3451, 3462, 3463 fall inside the council area.
The standard Mount Alexander Shire household puts out two bins across the cycle: general waste and recycling are collected fortnightly.
Bin types and frequencies may vary by property. Enter your address for the confirmed schedule.
Collection nights in Mount Alexander Shire vary by street and zone, so the reliable way to get your night is an address search rather than a suburb level guess.
Because zones can split a suburb down a single road, an address search is the only way to be certain of your night.
Holiday weeks are the usual reason a bin goes out on the wrong night. For how councils shift the schedule, see the public holiday bin guide.
Mount Alexander 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 Mount Alexander Shire vary by street and zone, so the reliable way to get your night is an address search rather than a suburb level guess. Search your address here for the dates that apply to your property.
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.
It depends on the holiday. When collections do shift in Mount Alexander Shire, everything from the holiday onward usually moves one day later that week.
Mount Alexander Shire looks after waste and recycling services for its part of Victoria, covering the four suburbs listed on this page. Its most populous suburbs covered here are Castlemaine, Maldon and Chewton. The dates shown here come from the council's own collection data.
To order a new bin, report a missed collection or check service alerts, visit the Mount Alexander Shire website.
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