Knox hard rubbish: a couch, drawers and a rolled rug on a nature strip, a teal skip of palings on the driveway, treed foothills behind

Knox hard rubbish collectionTwo booked collections a year, and what they won’t take

Knox gives most households two booked hard rubbish collections each financial year. Here’s how to book, what goes out, and what to do with the things it won’t take.

  • From Knox Council’s own pages
  • What it takes, and what it won’t
  • Where the rest can go

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The short answer

Book online or on 9298 8000: Monday to Wednesday for collection the next week, Thursday to Sunday for the week after. Put items on the nature strip the weekend before your collection week.

  • 2booked collections each financial year (1 July to 30 June)
  • 2pm Frithe last chance to cancel; after that, the booking counts as one of your two
  • 30 kgand 1.5 m: the item limits (mattresses, bed bases and fridges excepted)

What Knox hard rubbish takes, and what it won’t

Goes out

  • Furniture
  • Fridges, freezers and appliances, with the doors removed
  • E-waste: anything with a plug, cord or battery
  • Mattresses and bed bases, up to 2
  • Carpet, rolled and tied, up to 2 rolls of 1.5 m
  • Up to 10 pieces of timber, each up to 1.5 m and 30 kg
  • Tree stumps up to 1.5 m and 30 kg
  • Roofing iron and guttering up to 1.5 m
  • Metal tools and garden equipment, with oil and petrol drained
  • Empty paint tins, lids off; pottery and sheet glass, wrapped

Not collected

  • Building, demolition or renovation materials, including plasterboard and spa baths
  • Soil, bricks, concrete, sand, rubble, and roof or ceramic tiles
  • Gates, fencing, trellis and pallets
  • Green waste and logs (only stumps, within the limits)
  • Tyres and car parts
  • Asbestos, oil, paint, batteries, liquids and chemicals
  • Gas bottles, fire extinguishers, fuel containers and cement sheet
  • Household rubbish, recycling and commercial waste

Booking and putting it out

Put it out in a neat pile. If you don’t have a nature strip, call Knox first.

  • Small or loose items go in boxes you don’t need back, not plastic bags.
  • Fridges, freezers and e-waste come on a separate truck, in the same week.

Branches and garden waste

Hard rubbish won’t take garden waste, but Knox has two other routes for it.

  • Food and garden bin: collected weekly.
  • Bundled branches: collected every fortnight on your rubbish day, no booking needed. Tie bundles with natural twine, no more than 30 cm across, 1.5 m long and 30 kg. Timber, stumps, roots, soil and branches with nails or wire aren’t taken.

Where the rest can go

Knox points to the Knox Transfer Station and Recycling Facility, 251 George Street, Wantirna South, for what hard rubbish won’t take, or once you’ve used both collections: Knox doesn’t publish a paid extra collection.

  • E-waste: out with a booked collection, or to the transfer station, where Knox says there’s no charge for televisions and computer monitors.
  • Paint: a Paintback drop-off, or the transfer station.
  • Household chemicals: the state’s free Detox Your Home events.
  • Asbestos: Knox says not to cut or break it, and to check asbestos.vic.gov.au or the EPA for safe disposal.
  • Soil: Knox’s own A to Z guide lists the transfer station, or “Put in a skip bin”.

Who can book

Most Knox households can: hard waste is part of both residential waste charges in 2026–27.

Properties on private rubbish collections, which includes some apartments and multi-unit developments, aren’t eligible, nor are businesses or non-rateable charity properties. In a retirement village, ask your property manager.

When a skip makes more sense

Knox hard rubbish is for household items. Renovation waste, plasterboard, bricks, concrete, soil, tiles, fencing and green waste aren’t taken by hard rubbish. For those, a builders skip (no asbestos or fibro), a soil and concrete skip or a green waste skip takes it in one go, on your driveway, when it suits you.

Skip bins in Knox: Bayswater, Boronia, Ferntree Gully, Rowville, Wantirna.

Common questions

Can I add my neighbour’s rubbish to my pile?

No. Knox says each collection is only for the household that booked it, and that it’s illegal to add items to a neighbour’s pile, or to leave hard rubbish out without a booking. Fines apply under Council’s local laws.

What happens if something is left behind?

Check your letterbox: Knox leaves a flyer explaining why. Anything left must be removed within 7 days, or straight away if it’s a safety risk. If nothing was collected, contact Knox within a week of your collection week.

Where this information comes from

The rules and fees on this page come from these published pages, checked on 2 October 2026.

More guides

Hard rubbish collection in Melbourne’s eastHow hard rubbish works in Knox, Maroondah, Yarra Ranges, Monash, Whitehorse and Manningham: booking, limits, and what none of them will take.Read the guide What can go in a skip bin?What you can and can’t put in a skip under Victoria’s rules, from asbestos and e-waste to mattresses and tyres, and where each goes instead.Read the guide Skip bin permits in Melbourne’s eastDriveway or street, who applies, and each council’s fees and rules: Maroondah, Knox, Whitehorse, Manningham, Monash and Yarra Ranges.Read the guide

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