Waste & recycling
When your bins go out, and how Hawkesbury City Council handles recycling and bulky waste. The council runs a three-bin kerbside service: a red-lid general-waste bin collected weekly (fortnightly in some areas), a yellow-lid recycling bin collected fortnightly, and a green-lid garden-organics bin collected fortnightly on the alternate week to recycling. The green bin is garden organics only — Hawkesbury doesn't yet run a combined food-and-garden (FOGO) service, and the green bin is offered in selected urban areas rather than LGA-wide. Every household on the domestic collection service can book one free kerbside bulky-waste clean-up each financial year. To find your collection day, use the council's Bin Collection Day dashboard.
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)
- WeeklySelected (more rural) areas are collected fortnightly.
- Recycling (yellow lid)
- Fortnightly
- Garden organics (green lid)
- FortnightlyGarden organics only — no food waste accepted; offered in selected urban areas, not LGA-wide. Not a combined FOGO service. NSW mandates FOGO for all households by 2030; Hawkesbury has deferred its FOGO rollout to 1 July 2029.
- Bulky / hard waste
- 1 free kerbside clean-up per household per financial yearBook first; presented material must not exceed about 2 m³ (roughly one trailer load). Apartment residents should check with their building/strata manager.
- Problem waste & drop-off
- Hawkesbury City Waste Management Facility, 1 The Driftway, South WindsorOpen daily 8am–4pm (last entry 3:45pm), closed public holidays. Household quantities of recyclables can be dropped off free; other materials and problem waste may attract a fee.
- Find your bin day
- Council's Bin Collection Day dashboard (address lookup)See the link below.
Hawkesbury's green bin is garden-organics only and is offered in selected urban areas; a combined food-and-garden (FOGO) service is required across NSW by 2030 and the council has deferred its rollout to 1 July 2029. 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.