Whitehorse hard rubbish: a couch, drawers and a rolled rug on a nature strip outside new townhouses, a small teal skip on the shared driveway

Whitehorse hard rubbish collectionTwo free 3 m³ collections a year, branches included

Whitehorse residents can book two free hard waste collections each financial year, of up to 3 m³ each. Here’s how to book, what goes out, and what it won’t take.

  • From Whitehorse 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 9780 6120 by 5pm Wednesday, and it’s collected the following week. Put items on the nature strip the weekend before, by 6am Monday, with the orange BOOKED sticker where it can be seen from the road.

  • 3 m³each free collection: 1 m deep, 3 m long and 1 m high
  • 2free collections each financial year
  • 1.5 mthe longest an item can be, and no heavier than two people can lift

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

Goes out

  • Household furniture
  • Mattresses and bed bases, up to 2
  • Branches and prunings, bundled and tied; single limbs under 20 cm wide and 1.5 m
  • Up to 10 pieces of timber, up to 1.5 m
  • One roll of carpet, rolled and tied
  • E-waste and appliances, batteries removed; whitegoods; fridges, doors off or taped
  • Wrapped glass and crockery; mowers, old tools, scrap metal and empty paint tins
  • Hot water systems (empty, up to 55 kg), small car parts, up to 2 solar panels, and bicycles

Not collected

  • Building and renovation waste: rubble, bricks, tiles, plaster and cement sheet
  • Cement, concrete, sand and soil
  • Fence panels and pallets
  • Tyres, engine blocks, gas bottles and batteries
  • Paint, household chemicals, engine oil and sharps
  • Asbestos
  • Household rubbish, recycling, cardboard, and grass, leaves and small plants

Booking and putting it out

Collection can be any time from 6am Monday to 6pm Friday of your week, and on Saturday in busy periods.

  • When you book, say which kinds of items are going out: hard waste, bundled green waste, metal and e-waste, or mattresses. Each goes on a separate truck, and anything not booked may be left.
  • You’ll get a confirmation by email or text, then an information pack with the sticker.
  • Keep general waste and metal or electrical items in separate piles, with nothing on top of mattresses.
  • Once you’ve used both free collections, extra ones can be booked for a fee, which Whitehorse doesn’t publish.
  • You can change or cancel until 5pm on the Wednesday before your week.

Anything that isn’t accepted must go back onto your property within a day of the collection, or you risk a fine.

Units and apartments

In a block of six or more homes with council bins, Whitehorse says to contact your body corporate first: some have their own scheduled hard waste collections.

If your block doesn’t have council rubbish collection, the building manager or body corporate arranges hard waste. The service isn’t available to businesses.

Where the rest can go

Whitehorse’s own Recycling and Waste Centre, on the corner of Burwood Highway and Morack Road, Vermont South, is open 6:30am to 4pm, seven days, with no booking.

  • Free: e-waste in domestic quantities, batteries, up to 100 litres of paint, and steel such as whitegoods and guttering.
  • Charged, 2026–27, including the landfill levy and GST: a car boot of rubbish $62.00; bricks, concrete and ceramics $122.00 a tonne (minimum $60.00); clean green waste and timber $152.00 a tonne (minimum $70.00).
  • Not taken there: soil, household chemicals and asbestos. Chemicals go to the state’s free Detox Your Home events; for asbestos, Whitehorse points to the EPA.

When a skip makes more sense

Whitehorse sends building and renovation waste, concrete, fence panels and pallets to its tip, and soil isn’t taken there either. For a renovation, a builders skip takes it in one go (no asbestos or fibro). At a townhouse or apartment, a mini skip on your own driveway or car park avoids Whitehorse’s road permit and metered-bay fees.

Skip bins in Whitehorse: Box Hill.

Common questions

What if I put out more than 3 m³?

Whitehorse says the excess counts as a second collection, so a pile of up to 6 m³ uses both of your free collections for the year.

Where this information comes from

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

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