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.
For a list of ways to dispose of unwanted items see our A-Z guide to waste and recycling.
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.
Your closest rubbish tip is Heidelberg Materials Australia Resource Recovery Pty. Ltd.
55 Bridge Inn Road
Wollert, Vic 3750
Call: 03 9408 1299
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Heidelberg Materials 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.
Heidelberg Materials is a privately owned and operated waste and recycling facility. For more information about this service, visit the Heidelberg Materials website.
You can use the waste and recycling vouchers to dispose of items at Heidelberg Materials Australia Resource Recovery Pty. Ltd. A $30 fee applies for general rubbish disposal, payable at the facility.
To use your vouchers to drop off materials, you must present your voucher and identification with your City of Whittlesea residential address.
Vouchers expire on 30 June each year. Waste and recycling vouchers are not transferable or for commercial use.
See the Heidelberg Materials website for current prices and opening hours.
Disposal
Heidelberg Materials 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
Heidelberg Materials 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
Heidelberg Materials 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.
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.
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.