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Waste disposal fees for our landfills and transfer stations.
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Sort your load and save money
By sorting your waste before heading to the Bairnsdale Landfill or local transfer stations you can save money.
Loads that are sorted into recyclables, green waste, and general rubbish are often cheaper to dispose of than mixed loads.
Many items can be disposed of for free, such as cardboard, batteries, metal, or garden waste. So you can help reduce landfill costs and support local recycling efforts.
View or download our landfills and transfer station fees & locations brochure.
Customers are charged per load size. Therefore, if the trailer is not full, you will only be charged for the space the ‘load’ is taking up in the trailer.
Tips
Sort your load by:
• Clearly separating your recyclables from non-recyclables streams (ie: general waste, steel, polystyrene, cardboard, recyclables, etc). Mixed loads will be charged at the applicable rates.
• Condensing your load down as much as possible.
• Checking ahead to determine what is accepted at each facility and what can be recycled.
• Packing your trailer so the attendant can easily see what is in your load.
Remember to:
• Secure your load with a net, tie-down straps, or ropes before heading to a Waste Facility to prevent the risk of littering on route to waste transfer site.
• If you have any questions, call the site ahead of time, the attendants will be happy to provide advice on how to sort your load.
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General Waste, Tyres, Mattresses
General Waste
- Bag (up to 80 litre): $5 (minimum fee)
- Bin: $13
- Car/station wagon: $28
- Trailer (6x4 up to 0.3m high): $41
- Ute: $55
- Ute High load: $111
- $55 cubic metre
- $270 tonne
Tyres (each)
- Car or motorcycle: $9
- 4x4 or light truck: $20
- Truck up to 1.2m diameter: $31
- Tractor up to 1.6m diameter: $150
- Large earthmoving: $455
- Car/motorcycle tyre on rim: $21
- Light Truck/4x4 tyre on rim: $37
- Truck tyre on rim: $62
- Tractor tyre on rim: $305
- Large earthmoving tyre on rim: $915
Mattresses (each)
Single: $20
Double or queen: $27
King: $34
Commercial, Industrial and Building Waste
Sorted load
- Bin: $24
- Car/station wagon: $49
- Trailer (6x4 up to 0.3m high): $72
- Ute: $98
- Ute high load: $196
- $98 cubic metre
- $282 tonne
Unsorted load
- Bin: $29
- Car/station wagon: $58
- Trailer (6x4 up to 0.3m high): $86
- Ute: $115
- Ute High load: $226
- Bulk Waste - Commercial compactor truck: $293
- $113 cubic metre
- $354 tonne
Business / Commercial and Building Waste - Other Fees
- Asbestos, less than 20kg: $6. Please refer to Asbestos in Victoria for up-to-date asbestos information
- Asbestos: $342 tonne. Please refer to Asbestos in Victoria for up-to-date asbestos information.
- Clean fill: $56 m³/ $42 tonne
- Concrete, bricks and tiles: $195 m³ or $130 tonne
- Contaminated waste / recyclables: $264
- Low-level contaminated soil: $316 tonne
- Packaged organic waste: $502 tonne
- Recyclable plastic drums (non Drum Muster): Free
- Solar panel recycling: $6 per panel
- Tree stumps and logs over 0.3m diameter (non-weighbridge site): $208 m³
- Tree stumps and logs over 0.3m diameter (weighbridge site): $293 tonne
Green Waste, Recycling and Electronic Waste (e-waste)
Green Waste
The following fees apply:
- Green waste items UNDER 0.3m diameter (such as tree stumps and logs): $14 cubic metre
- Green waste items over 0.3m diameter (such as tree stumps and logs): $208 cubic metre or $293 tonne
- A ‘No Fee’ green waste disposal period takes place in November to help residents prepare for the bushfire season.
Recycling
It is free to dispose of recyclables. Recycling is paper, flattened cardboard, glass containers, steel cans and hard plastic containers.
Recycling must be free of contamination. Please remove all packaging and strapping.
Electronic Waste
It is free to dispose of electronic waste.
This is any item with a battery, plug or cord.
Electronic waste has been banned from entering landfill since 2019.
Gas bottles, steel, white goods, batteries, motor oil, polystyrene
Gas bottle
Disposal of a gas bottle (10kg or smaller): $11
Steel and white goods
Fridges and freezers: $10 to cover cost of degassing
Other white goods and steel items can be disposed of free of charge
Batteries (sorted)
Disposal of sorted batteries is free.
Motor oil
It is free to dispose of motor oil.
Polystyrene
It is free to dispose of polystyrene.
Animal bodies
Dead animals can only be disposed of at Bairnsdale Landfill.
Small animal: $10
This includes dog, cat. lamb, calf under 4 months.
Large animal: $274 tonne
This includes sheep, cow, horse.
Textiles and clothing - Bairnsdale
Looking after and extending the life of our clothes is the first step in reducing waste. With over 21,000 kerbside collection bins across East Gippsland Shire, approximately 1,300 tonnes of textile waste still end up in landfill each year, with a further 300 tonnes disposed of by charities that sell used clothing.
A stitch in time can make a big difference. By repairing, reusing and repurposing textiles – before recycling or disposal – we can better follow the waste hierarchy and extend the life of valuable materials.
Consider donating unwanted goods to local op shops throughout East Gippsland. They rely on generous donations of clean, saleable clothes, shoes and accessories to raise money for local worthy projects.
To divert textiles from landfill, Council is supporting a textile recovery service at the Bairnsdale Landfill.
Residents can dispose of clean textile waste for FREE.
