Free Booked Clean Up Service

Marrickville Council offers a free clean up service 52 weeks of the year; all you need to do is make a booking online or contact the Citizens' Service Centre on 9335 2137.

To allow Marrickville Council to recycle where possible, this service is provided in four separate categories:

1. General clean up
2. White goods/Metal goods collection
3. Green waste
4. Mattress recycling collection

You may book either collection, but there will be different collection days for either type of collection. You will be given the date of your collection at the time of booking, which will normally be the following week.

When booking a Whitegoods/Metal goods collection, you will need to place it out on the next available Monday night as advised by the operator. Collection will take place to four days from that Monday. For a general clean up, mattress or green waste collection, the operator will advise the collection day at time of booking. You need to ensure items are placed out neatly the night before.

Mattress Recycling Collection

Marrickville Council is about to embark on a 12 month mattress recycling initiative in conjunction with Dreamsafe, a mattress cleaning and recycling company that collects mattresses, cleans them and redistributes them to charity, or recycles them as a last resort.

Between Monday 2 November and Friday 29 October 2010, all mattresses in the Marrickville Local Government Area will be collected by the Dreamsafe team. Please note that all other items placed on the kerbside will be collected by the Marrickville Council Resource Recovery team as usual. This includes: general cleanup, metal/whitegoods collection and bulky green waste.

To do your bit, when making a booking for a clean up, tell the Citizen Service Officer if you have a mattress that you no longer want so it can be booked separately. If making the booking online be sure to use the "mattress" category and specify in the description of waste the number of mattresses you would like us to collect and from what location: front, rear or side of your property.

Marrickville Council is committed to increasing resource recovery by implementing initiatives to help reduce waste ending up in landfill.

For more information, please contact Council's Resource Recovery Project Officer on 9335 2222.
 

What can I put out for the booked clean up?
 

General cleanup 

The following will be collected: Furniture Floor coverings Small appliances

We won't collect: Building materials Tyres Car parts Paints, oils and toxic waste Household garbage Any other item that cannot safely be lifted onto a truck by two persons. E.g. cast iron bath tubs.

Whitegoods/metal goods 

The following will be collected: Stoves Fridges Freezers Washing machines Dryers All metal goods Guttering (1.8 metres long max) Single sheet galvanised iron (1.8 metres long max) Hot water systems

Green waste 

The following will be collected: Tree branches (1.0m long maximum and 15cm in diameter, bundled and tied)

We won't collect: Tree stumps Dirt Rocks Building rubble Garden hose Garbage Food scraps Material in plastic bags/boxes Timber off-cuts - untreated and unpainted

Mattress recycling program 

The following will be collected: Mattresses Mattress ensembles Futon mattresses

What are the special considerations?

You must comply with all of the following requirements to ensure your waste is collected on the nominated day:

• Doors must be removed from fridges and freezers for safety purposes before being placed out for collection.
• Only bulk green waste that cannot fit into your green waste bin will be collected.
• Tree branches put out for a green waste collection must be cut to the requirements above, bundled and tied.
• All material for collection must be placed neatly outside the property, close to the gutter with no obstructions to pedestrians.
• Material is only to be placed out the night prior to the collection date given.
• There is a limit of no more than 2 cubic metres for each collection (one box trailer load) for general cleanups and white goods. A quote can be organised for material that does exceed this amount, this is at the minimum cost of $58.06.
   

Alternative services available

Alternatively, you may like to use The Bower Reuse and Repair Centre at the Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville. The Bower is a registered not-for-profit cooperative and charity who recover, recycle, repair, and re-use preloved household, building and office goods, diverting them back to the community at affordable prices.

The Bower also offer a Reuse Referral Service - if they can't accept your items they will assist you to find someone who will.

You may also like to use Reverse Garbage at the Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville. Reverse Garbage is a not-for-profit co-operative that sells industrial discards, off-cuts and over-runs to the public for creative and practical uses, reducing the amount of waste going to landfill. The community-run re-use store in Marrickville are brimming with high-quality, low-priced, useful and unusual materials for use in arts, craft, education, small business, theatre, home renovation, design and other activities.

For a list of drop off locations and reuse facilities for a large range of products you may like to visit the Recycling Near You website.
 

Click here to book a waste collection online.