Garden waste and clippings

Garden waste prunings, leaf litter and lawn clippings are perfect for adding nutrients to your compost bin at home. Together with some paper, cardboard, mulch, straw, and food scraps you will create a nutritious compost for your gardens and pots, improve the microorganism and general health of your soil and grow tastier and healthy herbs, fruit and vegetables at home.

Organic green waste vegetation is mulched and reused at Council Waste facilities. Free mulch is available to residents to add cover and nutrients to their gardens.

Disposal / recycling options

Wheelie bins

• General waste bin

Waste facilities

• Bunya waste management facility
• Caboolture waste management facility
• Dakabin waste management facility
• Redcliffe transfer station
• Dayboro transfer station
• Mt Nebo transfer station
• Ningi transfer station
• Samford transfer station
• Toorbul transfer station
• Upper Caboolture transfer station
• Wamuran transfer station
• Woodford transfer station

Notes and conditions

• Limited commercial green waste up to 1.5 cubic metres is accepted at Ningi and Woodford local transfer stations.
• Green waste must not contain waste or foreign materials e.g. soil, dirt, clay, rocks, noxious weeds or restricted plants.
• Be fire ant aware when moving material that may carry fire ants to a waste facility. Find out more about fire ant carrier material. City of Moreton Bay waste facilities will not accept fire ant carrier materials from properties inside Fire Ant Biosecurity Zones 1 and 2 that are located outside of the Moreton Bay local government area.

• Get ready for GO! A new garden organics (GO) collection service starts in December 2024. GO bins will be emptied once a fortnight, on the alternate week to your recycling bin. From September to November 2024, eligible residents will automatically be delivered a new 240 litre GO (lime green lid) bin.