Green garden waste
Green garden waste should be placed in the lime-green lidded garden waste bin. Do not place green garden waste in your recycling or general waste bin.
Garden waste, also called green waste or garden organics, includes items from your garden such as leaves, grass clippings, garden prunings, small branches and weeds.
Disposal options
- Place green garden waste in your home compost.
- The ACT Government provides a fortnightly green garden waste bin collection service (fees apply). Find out how to order a green garden waste bin.
- You can take excess garden waste to the Mugga Lane Resource Management Centre or Canberra Sand and Gravel in Belconnen. Find out how to drop off green garden waste.
- Some Canberra suburbs are part of a Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) pilot program. Participants in Belconnen (town centre), Bruce, Cook, Macquarie and some apartments in Tuggeranong, can place food scraps along with garden waste in their FOGO bin (which looks the same as a green garden waste bin). Find more information on the FOGO pilot.
Additional information
When green garden waste gets sent to landfill it decomposes without oxygen. This produces methane, a harmful greenhouse gas. It also wastes valuable nutrients and energy that could be reused.
Related items
This may include grass clippings; tree branches; tree stumps; prunings; wood chips; branches; bamboo; weeds; flowers; green bin collection; woodchips; mulch; green waste; clumping bamboo; runner bamboo; roses; hay; straw; tan bark; mulch; bark; twigs; leaves; hedge trimmings; palm fronds.