Waste & recycling
When your bins go out, and how Bathurst Regional Council handles recycling and organics. The council runs a three-bin kerbside service: a green-lid FOGO (food organics and garden organics) bin collected weekly, plus a red-lid general-waste bin and a yellow-lid recycling bin collected on alternating fortnights. Because the green bin already takes both food and garden waste, Bathurst is ahead of the NSW-wide FOGO mandate (required for all households by 2030). To find your collection day and which week your red and yellow bins go out, use the council's waste collection lookup.
New to these terms? Read them in plain English
- FOGO
- The green bin that takes food scraps as well as garden waste.
- Bulky / hard waste collection
- Pickup or drop-off for large items that don't fit in your bins.
- Community Recycling Centre (CRC)
- A free drop-off for 'problem' waste like paint, batteries and oils.
- WeeklyTakes both food scraps and garden waste (vegetable peelings, meat and bones, grass clippings, prunings, plus paper and cardboard). Bathurst already runs FOGO, ahead of the 2030 NSW mandate.
- General waste (red lid)
- FortnightlyCollected on alternating weeks with the recycling bin; confirm your week using the collection lookup.
- Recycling (yellow lid)
- FortnightlyCollected on alternating weeks with the general-waste bin.
- Bulky / hard waste
- No scheduled kerbside bulky collectionBathurst does not run a general kerbside bulky-waste collection; larger items can be taken to the Bathurst Waste Management Centre (fees and limits apply). Confirm current arrangements with the council.
- Problem waste & drop-off
- Bathurst Waste Management CentreDrop-off for general, recyclable and problem/household hazardous waste; fees and limits apply.
- Find your bin day
- Council's waste collection lookup (address search)See the link below.
Bathurst's green bin is a combined food-and-garden (FOGO) service collected weekly; the general-waste and recycling bins are collected fortnightly on alternating weeks. Bin frequencies, sizes and fees can change — confirm your collection day and current fees on the official sources below.
Sources — check it yourself
Figures are current as at the dates shown and may change — always confirm with the linked source. See the notice at the bottom of the page for full details and how to report a correction.