Waste & recycling
When your bins go out, and how Murray River Council handles recycling and organics. The council runs a three-bin kerbside FOGO (Food Organics and Garden Organics) service, rolled out to its townships in 2022 with NSW Environmental Trust funding — ahead of the NSW-wide FOGO mandate for all households by 2030. The green-lid organics bin takes both food scraps and garden waste and is collected weekly; the red-lid general-waste bin and the yellow-lid recycling bin are each collected fortnightly. Households in the collection area also received a kitchen caddy. The service covers townships within the organics collection boundary — Moama, Mathoura, Barham, Moulamein, Murray Downs, Wakool and Tooleybuc. To find your collection day, use the council's find-my-bin-day page.
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.
- Food & garden organics (green lid)
- WeeklyFOGO — takes both food scraps and garden waste (240L bin, plus a 7L kitchen caddy). Introduced across the townships in 2022, ahead of the NSW-wide FOGO mandate for all households by 2030.
- General waste (red lid)
- Fortnightly140L bin.
- Recycling (yellow lid)
- Fortnightly240L bin.
- Service area
- Townships within the organics collection boundaryMoama, Mathoura, Barham, Moulamein, Murray Downs, Wakool and Tooleybuc. Rural properties outside the boundary may differ.
- Transfer stations & landfill
- Several sites across the LGAOpening hours and locations vary — see the council's transfer stations and landfill sites page below.
- Problem waste & drop-off
- Community Recycling CentresPermanent drop-off points for household problem wastes (e.g. batteries, paint, chemicals, e-waste) that can't go in the kerbside bins. See the link below for locations and item limits.
- Find your bin day
- Council's find-my-bin-day page (address lookup)See the link below.
Murray River runs a combined food-and-garden (FOGO) organics service across its townships, already in operation ahead of the 2030 NSW FOGO mandate. Bin frequencies, sizes, bulky-waste options and fees can change, and rural properties outside the collection boundary may differ — confirm your collection day and current services 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.