Waste & recycling
When your bins go out, and how Federation handles recycling and waste across its towns. Federation is a founding member (with Albury City, City of Wodonga and the Shires of Greater Hume and Indigo) of the regional 'Halve Waste' program, which already runs a three-bin kerbside service: a green-lid organics bin collected weekly, and red-lid general waste and yellow-lid recycling bins collected on alternate weeks. Corowa and Urana each have a free Community Recycling Centre for household problem waste, and the council operates several waste facilities across the LGA. To find your exact collection day, use the council's Bin Collection page or the Halve Waste 'Which Bin' tool.
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.
- General waste (red lid)
- Fortnightly (alternates with recycling)
- Recycling (yellow lid)
- Fortnightly (alternates with general waste)
- Food & garden organics (green lid)
- WeeklyFederation already runs an organics service through the regional Halve Waste program (a joint initiative with Albury City, City of Wodonga, Greater Hume and Indigo) — ahead of the NSW-wide 2030 FOGO deadline.
- Bulky / hard waste
- See council for current arrangementsWe could not confirm the exact bulky-waste collection process (booked kerbside clean-up vs on-call/paid) from public sources at the time of writing — check the council's waste pages or call customer service.
- Problem waste & drop-off
- Community Recycling Centres at Corowa and UranaFree drop-off for household problem waste such as paint, gas bottles, batteries, motor oil and fluorescent tubes; the council also runs several waste transfer facilities across the LGA.
- Find your bin day
- Council Bin Collection page / Halve Waste 'Which Bin' toolSee the links below.
Bin frequencies, facility hours and fees can change — confirm your collection day and current fees on the official sources below. We were unable to directly load the council's own waste pages while researching this (they returned an access-denied response to our automated check); the details above are drawn from search-indexed extracts of those pages plus the regional Halve Waste program site.
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.