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Search my addressNew South Wales councils set their own kerbside schedules, but the common pattern is a weekly red lid general waste collection with yellow lid recycling and green lid organics alternating fortnightly. The NSW Government has mandated that all households receive a food organics and garden organics (FOGO) service by 2030, so many councils are currently transitioning their green bin to accept food scraps.
NSW runs the Return and Earn container deposit scheme, refunding 10 cents for most eligible drink containers returned to a return point or reverse vending machine.
Council clean-up collections for bulky items work differently across Sydney and regional NSW. Some councils offer scheduled street clean-ups, others provide a number of booked collections per household each year.
Sydney is also where split postcodes cause the most bin day confusion in the country. Dense inner suburbs can sit across two council boundaries, meaning one end of a street follows a different schedule and even a different bin lineup than the other. If your suburb borders another council area, checking by full address rather than postcode is the only reliable way to get your night right.