Household Refuse and Recycling Collection
Ipswich City Council provides households with a 240-litre green mobile wheelie bin for refuse disposal and a 240-litre wheelie bin with a yellow lid for recyclable waste.
- The refuse collection service is provided weekly.
- Household recyclables are collected fortnightly.
Both bins remain the property of Ipswich City Council and should not be used for any other purpose than the disposal of waste. To check which day and week your bins are serviced, view the  Ipswich Recycling Calendar 2009 10 (PDF, 1.6 mb)
The Recycling Calendar is delivered to all households by 1 July each year. If you would like another copy of the calendar please contact Council on (07) 3810 6666.
Wheelie Bin Placement and Collection 
- Household refuse bins are emptied on the same day each week, regardless of whether the collection day is a public holiday (this includes Christmas Day and Good Friday).
- The recycling bin is emptied every second garbage collection day.
- Collection times vary from week to week. Therefore it is always good practice to place bins out by 6.00 a.m. on the collection day.
- Make sure the bin lids close properly. No rubbish or recyclables should protrude from the bin. Government legislation generally requires lids to be closed at all times. In addition, overfull bins can result in spilt waste when the bin is being emptied.
- Ipswich Waste Services uses specially designed trucks to empty the bins so their positioning on the kerbside or roadside is very important.
- The bins should be placed not more than one metre from the kerb edge (or if there is no kerb, the road edge) so that the truck can reach the bins.
- The bins should be in clear view of the road with the handles facing away from the road. The driver can easily miss a bin if it is hidden behind a tree for example.
- Leave a space between 30cm and one metre between bins so that the collection trucks do not hit bins together and knock them over.
- Bins are to be no heavier than 50kg.
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