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Council provides domestic garbage and recyclable collection services to urban areas of Swan Hill, Woorinen, Woorinen South, Beverford, Robinvale, Nyah, Nyah West, Lake Boga, Ultima, Boundary Bend, Wood Wood, Managatang and Piangil. These services are also provided in southwest New South Wales within the Wakool Shire urban areas of Murray Downs, Tooleybuc and Koraleigh.
Residents can choose to have either a 120Litre mobile bin or a 240Litre mobile bin for garbage collection and a 240L recycling bin is also provided.
Council reminds residents not to overfill their bins when putting them out for collection. Please make sure your bin lid is closed and there are no garbage bags left beside your bins.
The best way to avoid overfilling garbage bins is to try and reduce the amount of household waste going into the bin. Go to the Support Services, Initiatives & Programs section in this website to see how you can Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Collection Days
The municipality is divided into ‘waste collection districts’ for collection days of household garbage and recycling.
Rural areas are based on the following program:
Monday – Murray Valley Highway (Swan Hill to Lake Boga); Lake Boga; Tresco and Ultima
Tuesday – Robinvale; Boundary Bend; Piangil and Manangatang
Thursday – Tyntynder Flats; Beverford; Murrawee; Woorinen Township and Woorinen North.
Friday – Nyah and Nyah West
Swan Hill Township Garbage and Recycling collection is broken into four waste collection districts and is collected over four days.
Click here to see map of Collection Areas & Days (Swan Hill Township)
Click here to see map of the Swan Hill Municipality
Garbage Bin Charges
Every property within the designated garbage service collection area, that has a habitable dwelling on the property, must pay a garbage collection charge. The charges are itemized in resident’s Rate Notices as following for the 2008/2009 financial year:
240 litre bin - $300.00
120 litre bin - $215.00
Payment of the charge also entitles the ratepayer to a 240 litre recycle bin.
Garbage Bins remain the ownership of Swan Hill Rural City Council, with bin Serial Numbers recorded for each property. Requests for second bins and bins for Commercial properties are handled by Council’s Contractor, Ellwaste.
Anyone wishing to change from a 120 litre bin to a 240 litre bin is required to pay a change over surcharge fee of $55.00. Anyone wishing to change from a 240 litre bin to 120 litre bin does not pay the surcharge fee as this has been waived by Council.
An application form Garbage Collection Service Application is available for this purpose, as well as requests for new services, stolen bins and maintenance requirements.
For further information please contact the Swan Hill Rural City Council on 5036 2333.
Commercial Garbage Collection
Council does not provide garbage or recycling collection services for commercial or industrial premises. There are a number of businesses that collect commercial and industrial waste within the municipality.
Hard Waste Collections
Swan Hill Rural City Council currently provides free hard waste collections at various times to residents in areas where Landfill operation hours are limited. This collection requires manual collection using loaders for heavier objects by Council’s Landfill Contractors Transpacific Industries Group Pty Ltd. For more information please contact Councils Elizabeth Brecevic on 5036 2401.
Recycling
All residents that are provided with a garbage collection are also supplied with a 240Litre mobile garbage bin for recycling, which is collected fortnightly.
Materials recovered through the recycling kerbside collection include:
- Steel and aluminium cans
- Glass (bottles and jars)
- Paper and cardboard
- Plastic codes 1 to 7
- Liquid paperboard (milk cartons)
- Newspapers, phone books, advertising materials
Don’t forget to rinse out your recyclable products and place your recyclables in your recycle bin loosely and not in a plastic bag.
The kerbside recycling collected is taken to the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) operated by Visy Recycling at 172 Gray Street, Swan Hill.
Residents can also dispose of their recyclable waste either directly at the MRF or at the Swan Hill Landfill where recycling cages have been provided.
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