Strathbogie Shire Council provides a number of waste services and facilities for residents that allow you to keep your environment clean and sustainable.
What’s on this page?
- Check your bin day →
- Collection days and calendars →
- Kerbside Organic (Green) Bin →
- Kerbside Rubbish (Red) Bin →
- Kerbside Recycling (Yellow) Bin →
- From July 2025: Kerbside Glass (Purple) Bin FAQs →
- How to put out your bins →
Check your bin day
Type your address in the box below to view Council’s Waste Collection map:
To check your collection area, enter your address in the box below:
- Monday: Euroa Township
- Tuesday: Earlston, Euroa (outskirts of township only), Gooram, Kelvin View, Kithbrook, Miepoll, Moglenemby, Sheans Creek, Strathbogie, Violet Town.
- Wednesday: No Collections
- Thursday: Arcadia South, Avenel, Bailieston, Goulburn Weir, Kirwans Bridge, Locksley, Longwood, Longwood East, Mangalore, Nagambie (outskirts of township only), Tabilk, Wahring.
- Friday: Nagambie Township
These handy calendars will help keep you on track with which bin goes out each week. If you are unsure which area you live in, our online mapping can tell you.
Click on the links below to download the calendar for your area:
Kerbside Organic (Green) Bin
- Fruit and vegetable scraps
- Meat scraps and bones
- Fish and seafood (including shells)
- Dairy products (for example: cheese, yoghurt and butter)
- Egg shells
- Tea leaves and coffee grounds
- Tissues, paper towels and napkins
- Hair and nails
- Lawn clippings
- Garden prunings (including weeds and rose trimmings)
- Twigs and branches that are less than 10cm thick
- Animal droppings
- Compostable bags including Council’s kitchen caddy liners
- Items that meet the Australian Standard for Composability AS4736
Download and print our handy ‘Doing the right bin’ guide for reference.
You can’t place any of the following materials in the green lid bin:
- Plastic of any type
- Glass and metal
- Soil and stones
- Plant pots
- Nappies
- Kitty litter of any type
Download and print our handy ‘Doing the right bin’ guide for reference.
Kerbside Rubbish (Red) Bin
This service is for the collection of remaining waste from around the home that cannot be reused, recycled or composted, such as:
- Soft plastics (for example: plastic shopping bags, cling wrap, bread bags, confectionery wrappers, chip packets)
- Polystyrene
- Nappies
- Standard incandescent / tungsten / halogen light bulbs. Fluorescent lights should be recycled at your nearest Transfer Stations.
- Old fabric and clothing — You can now also dispose of your unwanted and unusable textiles for free at new textile recovery boxes provided by Upcycle 4 Better at our Transfer Stations in Euroa, Nagambie, Violet Town and Avenel.
- Broken glass and crockery
Download and print our handy ‘Doing the right bin’ guide for reference.
- Hot ashes
- Liquids
- Paints or solvents
- Pesticides, oils or chemicals
- Electronic waste and batteries
- Car batteries
- Large heavy objects
- Recyclable material
- Compostable material
Download and print our handy ‘Doing the right bin’ guide for reference.
Kerbside Recycling (Yellow) Bin
- Paper and cardboard
including envelopes with plastic windows, tissue boxes, egg cartons, magazines, phone books, empty pizza boxes, frozen food boxes - Milk and juice cartons (known as liquid paperboard)
including fresh and long-life (UHT) cartons - Aluminium and steel cans
including lids, and empty aerosol cans - Some plastics such as: Rigid plastic food or drink containers and bottles such as milk bottles, fruit punnets, plastic plant pots, yoghurt containers, shampoo bottles etc. Leave lids attached.
You can view our handy recycling Frequently Asked Questions.
Download and print our handy ‘Doing the right bin’ guide for reference.
- Soft plastics that can be easily scrunched into a ball, or break apart easily (for example: plastic shopping bags, cling wrap, bread bags, confectionery wrappers, chip packets)
- Polystyrene (including those labelled as recyclable)
- Light globes
- Batteries
- Crockery and ceramics
- Electronic equipment (for example: TVs, computers, phones)
- Clothing and fabric
- Nappies
- Liquids
- Hot ashes
- Engine oil
- Scrap steel and aluminium
- Toys
- Broken drinking glasses or broken window glass
- Food and garden waste (these can go in your green lid bin)
Most of these materials can be recycled at one of Council’s Transfer Stations, which offer a wider range of recycling services.
Download and print our handy ‘Doing the right bin’ guide for reference.
Kerbside Glass (Purple) Bin FAQs
Delivery of bins to residents is scheduled from May – July 2025. Collections will commence in July 2025
The collection frequency of existing kerbside services will remain the same. The new glass recycling (purple) bin will be collected once every 4 weeks (monthly).
- Food and garden organics (green bin) — weekly
- Mixed recycling (yellow bin) — fortnightly
- General rubbish (red bin) — fortnightly
- Glass recycling (purple bin) — monthly
We have several ways to track which bin to put out and when including:
- check the kerbside bin collection schedule online
- download and print the bin collection calendar
Your new purple bin for glass recycling will be 120L
We understand that it can be challenging to find space to store more bins especially in units and flats. We want to help people living at specific multi-unit properties, so we are currently investigating the opportunity to see if we can allow for the sharing of organic bin (green) and glass recycling bin (purple) between neighbours who reside in higher density dwellings.
If you think this solution might help you and we haven’t been in touch you can contact us and someone from our waste team will get back to you
Phone: 1800 065 993 (toll free)
Email: info@strathbogie.vic.gov.au
Anyone with existing bins will receive the new purple bin for glass recycling. Our compulsory kerbside waste collection zones for residential properties include all major townships (this accounts for approximately 60% of residents).
Properties outside the compulsory collection zone (that do not opt-in for a collection point) will not be impacted by these changes as they are not charged for a kerbside waste service.
If your property is outside the compulsory collection zone, but close to our current collection routes, then you have the option to ‘opt-in’. Each ‘opt-in’ request is assessed on a case-by-case basis. You can apply to ‘opt-in’ via our website or by contacting Council.
Properties outside the compulsory collection zone may engage a private collection service.
The cost of the new bins is included in your rates notice. Starting in the new financial year, there will be a slight increase in the waste services charge for the 2025/26 financial year to cover the new service. The costs will be decided in the next Council budget.
By 2030, all households in Victoria will be using the same waste and recycling system and separating their waste and recycling into 4 streams: food and garden organics, glass recycling, mixed recycling, and general rubbish. This will ensure that more of what we dispose of can be recovered and recycled into new things.
It might seem like a small thing to sort your waste properly, but it makes a big impact when we all do it correctly. Recycling well and reducing waste in the first place helps keep valuable resources out of landfill, so they can be used again and again.
Your recycling is being turned into new products all across Victoria. This helps minimise the waste ending up in landfill and makes the most of existing resources.
The road you drive on every day may be made from recycled materials. Or the railway sleepers your train passes over on your daily commute. Or even the footpath you walk on in your local park.
Recycling reduces the need for new or raw materials and is part of Victoria’s shift to a circular economy.
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The new four-bin service complies with the Victorian Government’s 2020 Recycling Victoria: A New Economy which will see a standardised four-bin waste and recycling system for households across the state by 2030. This is a vital step in reducing the amount of waste going to landfill.
Each property that currently has a kerbside service will also be required to have a glass-only bin. Glass will not be accepted into your yellow-lidded recycling bin.
In addition to complying with State Government standardising household recycling and waste services across the state, large investments are being made into glass reprocessing facilities.
Broken glass makes other items like cardboard, paper and plastic hard to recycle. By putting your glass bottles and jars in a separate bin more of it can be recycled into new things.
Broken glass jars or bottles can be put in your glass recycling bin. It is fine if your glass bottle or jar breaks when you place it into the bin. Only put glass bottles and jars in your glass recycling bin and all other glass in your general rubbish bin. This includes broken drinking glasses, windows, mirrors, vases, glass cooking dishes and perfume bottles.
Do not put your glass into plastic bags or carboard boxes.
Glass bottles and jars must be placed loosely into your bin to be recycled properly.
Lids on please!
- Jar lids and bottle caps must be firmly attached.
- Lids that are loose, whether it is from a glass bottle, jar or other packaging can’t go in the purple bin.
The answer is “lightly rinsed”. No need to wash but rinse or scape to reduce food residue in your glass recycling bins.
Remember it might be sitting there for a few weeks before we pick it up.
How to put out your bins
- Please remember to put your bins out the night before your collection day and bring in your bins promptly after they have been emptied.
- Ensure your bins are not overfilled
- Place your bins at least 1m apart to enable automated collection
- Ensure your bins are placed clear of any obstructions (parked cars, trees, power poles etc.)
- Collection trucks cannot manoeuvre adequately to collect bins around “court bowls”. If you live at the end of a court, please place your bins along the straight section of the road.