Landfill Bin

Council’s landfill bin is collected fortnightly in urban areas and weekly in rural areas. 

Your landfill bin (the bin of last resort) should only be used to dispose of household items that cannot be composted or recycled and can fit safely and securely in the bin.

✅ What you CAN put in your landfill bin:

• All plastic bags, soft plastics and packaging, wrappers and bubble wrap
• All nappies (including biodegradable and compostable)
• Bottle top lids
• Broken crockery and ceramics
• Cigarette butts
• Fibre-based food packaging (bamboo, paper, sugarcane, etc)
• Personal hygiene items, wipes, and medical waste (no sharps)
• Pet waste and kitty litter
• Polystyrene including meat trays and foam
• Rope, string and twine
• Takeaway coffee cups

❌ What to KEEP OUT of your landfill bin:

• Batteries (car and household)*
• Building materials
• Fire extinguishers*
• Fluorescent light globes and tubes*
• Food and garden waste (place in organics bin or other compost system)
• Gas bottles*
• Hazardous materials (asbestos, chemicals)
• Motor oil*
• Oil or paint*
• Scrap metal*
• Sharps 

Items with * have free recycling options at the Ballina Resource Recovery Centre

Bin services

Where does my landfill waste go?

We call it ‘the bin of last resort’ as it is the most expensive and least environmentally friendly option, representing a waste of all resources involved in producing and transporting a product. It should only be used for small rubbish items that cannot be reused, repurposed, gifted, recycled, or composted. Everything put in the red lid landfill bin is transported to the Ti Tree Bioenergy waste disposal facility. The facility is located in a former open cut coal mine that makes the most of technology by capturing environmentally damaging methane from landfill and converting it to electricity.