Waste & recycling
When your bins go out, and how Leeton Shire handles recycling and waste across Leeton, Yanco, Whitton, Wamoon, Stanbridge and Murrami. Council runs a three-bin kerbside service to eligible households: a green-lidded food-and-garden-organics (FOGO) bin collected weekly, and a red-lidded general-waste bin and yellow-lidded recycling bin collected on alternating weeks (so each is fortnightly, on the same day as the green bin). The FOGO service — rolled out from 1 July 2024 — won the council a 2025 Local Government NSW Environment Award. To find your exact collection day, use the council's bin-collection lookup tool below.
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)
- FortnightlyCollected on alternating weeks with the yellow recycling bin, on the same day as the weekly green FOGO bin.
- Recycling (yellow lid)
- FortnightlyAlternates with the red general-waste bin.
- WeeklyRolled out to eligible households from 1 July 2024. More than 4,300 green bins delivered; an early audit found a 0.3% contamination rate and about 752.7 tonnes of organics diverted from landfill in the service's first year (≈1,505 tonnes of CO2-e avoided). Won the 2025 LGNSW Environment Award (Behaviour Change in Waste — Division A and Overall Winner).
- Bulky / hard waste
- No regular free kerbside collection — periodic 'Dump for Free' weekendsCouncil periodically runs free-entry 'Dump for Free' weekends at the landfill (e.g. September 2025, March 2026); outside these, self-hauled loads are charged at the Leeton Landfill and Recycling Centre's standard gate fees. Confirm current dates with the council.
- Problem waste & drop-off
- Leeton Landfill and Recycling Centre, 732 Corbie Hill RoadIncludes an EPA-funded Community Recycling Centre for household problem waste (e-waste, batteries, paint, chemicals, gas bottles) — free drop-off, year-round.
- Find your bin day
- Council's Bin Collection page (street-address lookup) / (02) 6953 0911See the link below.
Kerbside collection is available in Leeton, Yanco, Whitton, Wamoon, Stanbridge and Murrami. Bin frequencies, event dates and facility fees can change — confirm your collection day and current charges 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.