Landfill

Try to reuse, repair, recycle

We encourage everyone to care for our environment by limiting what goes to landfill. After checking if you can reuse, repair or recycle an item, the landfill is a final disposal option.

Before heading to the landfill, check if your items can be fixed or used by someone else. Depending on the item, you can sell or donate it, or take it to a community recycling facility.

E-waste

Unwanted electrical and battery-operated items cannot go into landfill.

Find out what you can do with your e-waste

Green waste

Green waste and timber offcuts can be recycled at our community recycling facilities.

You can also arrange a free kerbside bundled branches collection.

Needle and syringe disposal

Residents who use needles and syringes for medical purposes can collect free sharps disposal containers.

For a list of ways to dispose of unwanted items see our A-Z guide to waste and recycling.

Save yourself a trip to the landfill

Dispose of your hard rubbish without leaving home. You can book two free hard rubbish collections each year.

Book your hard rubbish collection

If you can't book online, our Customer Service team can assist with your booking. Please call the team on 03 9217 2170.

Local landfill

Your closest rubbish tip is Hanson Wollert Landfill.

55 Bridge Inn Road
Wollert, Vic 3750
Call: 03 9408 1299

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Hanson Wollert Landfill opening hours

  • Monday to Friday: 7 am – 4:30 pm
  • Saturday: 7 am – 2:45 pm
  • Sunday: closed. 

The tip is closed on:

  • Christmas Day
  • New Year’s Day
  • Anzac Day
  • Good Friday. 

Please be aware that times of operation are subject to change without notice.

Hanson Wollert Landfill is a privately owned and operated waste and recycling facility. For more information about this service, visit the Hanson website.

map showing the location of Wollert landfill.

 

Landfill entry and costs

You can use the waste and recycling vouchers that come with your rates notice to dispose of items at Hanson Wollert Landfill. Please note that a $30 Victorian Government Landfill Levy charge applies when using the facility.

To use your vouchers to drop off materials, you must present:

  • your original and current rates notice (instalments or amended notices are not accepted)
  • photo ID with your residential address.

Vouchers expire on 31 July each year. Waste and recycling vouchers are not transferable or for commercial use.

See the Hanson Landfill website for current prices and opening hours.

Acceptable items for landfill disposal

Disposal

Hanson Wollert Landfill accepts the following items for disposal:

  • broken furniture 
  • building rubbish
  • car parts
  • carpet/underlay
  • general household rubbish
  • insulation material (must be double bagged and sealed)
  • mixed loads
  • soil.

Recycling

Hanson Wollert Landfill accepts the following items for recycling:

  • car and household batteries
  • cardboard and paper 
  • hot water systems
  • household appliances with a cord or battery including kettles, toasters, vacuums, blenders and battery operated toys or tools
  • mattresses (charges apply)
  • mobile phones
  • motor oil (up to 20 litres)
  • plastic bottles and containers
  • refrigerators/old whitegoods
  • scrap metal 
  • steel and aluminium cans
  • televisions, printers and computers
  • tyres (charges apply)
  • x-rays.

Unacceptable items for landfill disposal

Hanson Wollert Landfill does not accept:

  • any kind of liquid waste
  • cameras and accessories
  • fluorescent light globes
  • gas bottles
  • household chemicals including oil, paint, cleaning products, fertilisers and car care products
  • printer cartridges
  • syringes.

Find out how to dispose of different household items.

Other landfills

The following sites also accept car and trailer loads of waste.

Charges apply.

Hume Landfill

Bolinda Road

Campbellfield, Vic 3061

Call: 03 9359 3813

Opening hours: Monday to Sunday, 8 am – 4 pm.

Nillumbik Transfer Station

290–304 Yan Yean Road

Plenty, Vic 3090

Call: 03 9436 3555

Opening hours: Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 8 am – 4pm.

Please visit Nillumbik Shire Council's Recycling Centre page for pricing for non-Nillumbik residents.

Darebin Transfer Station

Kurnai Avenue

Reservoir, Vic 3073

Call: 03 9230 4799

Opening hours: Monday to Sunday, 8 am – 3:30 pm.

Cover your load

For the safety of other road users and to prevent littering, all trailer and vehicle loads must be covered with a properly secured tarpaulin.

If material falls from your vehicle or trailer, you may receive a Council fine. If littering happens when your load is uncovered or unsecured you may face a much larger court-imposed fine.

This includes loads containing loose household garbage, hard and green waste, building materials, mulch, sand and soil.

Tie your tarp securely with rope and make sure items can’t blow or bounce out if you hit a bump or brake suddenly.

Text reads: remember to cover your load. Penalties apply for uncovered loads. Image shows a red cross above an uncovered trailer and a green tick above a covered trailer.