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Waste & recycling

Waste & recycling

When your bins go out, and how Lockhart Shire handles recycling and waste across Lockhart, The Rock, Yerong Creek, Pleasant Hills, Milbrulong and Osborne. Council runs a three-bin kerbside service inside the collection areas: a green-lidded food-and-garden-organics (FOGO) bin collected weekly, and a red-lidded general-waste bin and yellow-lidded recycling bin collected fortnightly. Collection is on a Wednesday, and the council publishes two printed calendars — one covering Lockhart, Pleasant Hills, Yerong Creek, Osborne and Milbrulong, and a separate one for The Rock. Outside the collection areas, the shire runs four landfill sites and issues every rates account two free tipping vouchers a year.

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.
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Bin collection at a glance

General waste (red lid)
Fortnightly240 litre bin, collected on alternating weeks with the yellow recycling bin. Cleanaway is the council's collection contractor.
Recycling (yellow lid)
Fortnightly240 litre bin, alternating with the red general-waste bin. For what goes in it, the council points residents to the Recycle Right guide for the Wagga Wagga materials facility.
Weekly240 litre bin plus a kitchen caddy. FOGO material is composted at the council's own facility at Lockhart and the compost is used in local parks, gardens and community projects. The three-bin service is covered by a single domestic waste management charge — $495 per assessment in 2026-27 (adopted Operational Plan).
Bulky / hard waste
One booked kerbside collection per year — costs one of your two waste vouchersAvailable to residential properties that already receive a kerbside collection; commercial and rural properties are not eligible. Book with the council before putting anything out. The collection generally runs over a 1-2 week period in October/November, with a 2 cubic metre limit per property. Mattresses, lounges, tyres, building waste and hazardous waste are not accepted.
Problem waste & drop-off
Lockhart Community Recycling Centre, 40 Tip Road, Lockhart — freeFree drop-off of household quantities of paint, gas bottles and fire extinguishers, fluoro globes and tubes, household and car batteries, motor and other oils, smoke detectors and e-waste. Open Wednesday 8.30am-10.30am and alternate Sundays 8.30am-11.30am. A smaller Community Recycling Station at the council office, 65 Green Street, takes mobile phones, batteries, fluoro globes and smoke detectors during business hours.
Find your bin day
Council's waste collection calendars (Lockhart & others / The Rock) — or call (02) 6920 5305There is no address lookup tool; the council publishes a printed year calendar for each collection area. See the links below.

Kerbside collection is available in Lockhart, The Rock, Yerong Creek, Pleasant Hills, Milbrulong and Osborne. Properties outside those areas can opt in for the full three-bin service at the same annual charge, plus the cost of buying the three bins. The shire's four landfill sites (Lockhart, The Rock, Pleasant Hills and Yerong Creek) all keep limited opening hours and are closed on public holidays. Frequencies, charges, voucher terms and facility hours can change — confirm 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.