Recycling and reducing waste

Council's free Brisbane Bin and Recycling app helps you stay up-to-date with bin collection days and learn how to recycle waste more effectively.

Green waste recycling bins are an easy and affordable way to dispose of lawn clippings, prunings and leaves.

Council's Love Food Hate Waste campaign is raising awareness about reducing food waste going to Brisbane landfill. 

Find out methods for composting, mulching and reusing your kitchen waste to improve your garden.

Council can help your business recycle more and reduce waste with easy recycling solutions.

Brisbane’s Best Recycling Guide for Households is a pocket guide with detailed information about the benefits of recycling waste.

Brisbane residents are improving recycling habits at home. Find out what you can and can't recycle.

Council offers education programs, recycling bins and teacher resources to help schools minimise waste.

Council has partnered with community gardens around Brisbane to help residents reduce the amount of waste they send to landfill and create rich compost for use in the community gardens. Registered participants can donate their food scraps at their local community composting hub.

Council is committed to reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill in Brisbane by encouraging reuse, repair, upcycling and sharing as a key opportunity to build a cleaner, greener and more sustainable city.

The waste hierarchy is a list of waste management strategies. It is an internationally recognised approach to reducing waste by extracting the maximum use from products.

The Australasian Recycling Label (ARL) is an evidence based standardised system that provides you with easy to understand recycling information for packaging.

Watch Visy's recycling education video on Visy's YouTube channel to learn more about recycling correctly. See how Council diverts products from landfill for recycling at our material recovery facility.