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.
The Resource Recovery team is working on a new strategy to increase community re-use and recycling of waste - however, residents should be conscious that most waste collected in the general clean up category ends up in landfill. In the interim, please consider alternative options for disposing of household items before booking in your collection.
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 conducting a mattress-recycling initiative in conjunction with Landsavers who collects mattresses, clean, sanitise and redistribute them to charity - or recycle them as a last resort.
All mattresses in the Marrickville Council area will be collected and recycled by the Landsavers 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 Customer Service Officer if you have a mattress that you no longer want so it can be booked separately. If making the booking online yourself 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. Please note that a maximum of 3 mattresses per collection are permitted. If you have more, please book them in subsequent weeks.
Mattresses will be collected within a 48-hour period. There may be some delays due to wet weather and public holidays. Please note that Landsavers do not collect mattresses that are within your property and do not work on weekends.
If you would like to cancel your booking, please contact Council on 9335 2222.
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 Environment Officer - Resource Projects on 9335 2222.
What can I put out for the booked clean up?
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Note: Consider holding onto your electronic items and diverting them from landfill by dropping them off for recycling at the next household chemical and e-waste collection day. |
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Whitegoods/metal goods
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Green waste
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Mattress recycling program
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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.
- Green waste material resulting from a Tree Preservation Determination from Council shall be disposed by private arrangement and not through Council's Domestic or Green Waste collection service.
- 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.
Alternative services available
Council offers a FREE household chemical and e-waste recyclingservice for residents to ensure unwanted items are safely removed from the community and kept out of landfill. This event is held 4 times a year, so if you have any chemicals or electronic items stockpiling in your garage, then consider bringing them to the next drop off day and help us achieve minimum waste and maximum recovery!
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.