Waste & recycling
When your bins go out, and how Mosman Council handles recycling, garden waste and clean-ups. Council runs a user-pays garbage service (you choose an 80, 120 or 240-litre bin) collected weekly, a weekly kerbside recycling collection, and a garden-organics (green waste) collection once a month. The green service is garden organics only — Mosman doesn't yet run a combined food-and-garden (FOGO) service; in the meantime Council subsidises home-composting products to help residents keep food scraps out of landfill (the NSW-wide FOGO mandate is 2030). Council also collects bulky 'Clean Up' items twice a year, with extra collections bookable. To find your collection day, use the council's bin-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.
- General garbage (red lid)
- WeeklyUser-pays service — choose an 80, 120 or 240-litre bin (smaller bins cost less); the 240L size is only available to households that already have one.
- Recycling (yellow lid)
- WeeklyPaper, cans, cartons and bottles.
- Garden organics (green waste)
- Once a monthGarden vegetation only — no food waste; not a combined FOGO service. Put out in a 240L green-lid bin, tied bundles or rigid containers (each under 20kg). NSW mandates FOGO for all households by 2030.
- Bulky / Clean Up waste
- 2 free collections per yearFurniture, carpet, whitegoods, bicycle frames and similar. Additional collections can be booked. Apartment residents should check with their building/strata manager.
- Problem waste & e-waste
- Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre, Terrey HillsMosman has no own recycling centre; Kimbriki is the LGA's resource-recovery facility (green waste is composted there). Free e-waste drop-off for Mosman residents; Council also runs problem-waste diversion for items like textiles, polystyrene and coffee pods.
- Find your bin day
- Council's Bin Collection Dates page (address lookup)See the link below. Waste Line: (02) 9978 4076.
Mosman's green service is garden-organics only; a combined food-and-garden (FOGO) service is required across NSW by 2030. 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.