City of Swan residents can request two verge collections for domestic bulk waste each financial year. Additionally, up to three mattresses can be pre-booked for collection.
Verge collections are for items that cannot be reused, repaired, or rehomed. The general waste items for your verge collections will go to landfill. Green waste, metal, e-waste and mattresses are resources we can recover and take to processing facilities.
Before booking your verge collection consider repairing, donating, selling, swapping or reusing your quality items.
For large bulky items, some organisations offer a free collection service.
Book or change a verge collection
Before booking a verge collection, consider whether your items could be donated, reused or recycled.
Repair and reuse
Is it too good to go in the bin? Then it’s too good for a verge collection.There are plenty of services or groups that can help fix or pass on your items to be reused, such as:
- Repair café
- Garage Sale Trail
- Gumtree
- Facebook Marketplace
- Buy Nothing Facebook Groups
- Recycling Centre – Bullsbrook Reuse Shop.
Donate
Gifted items must be clean and not broken or stained because charities can’t fix broken things or wash clothes. A good rule is to ask yourself if you’d give it to a friend. To be sure, check out this handy A-Z guide.Great organisations to donate to include:
- Bikes for Humanity
- Rebel Sport – sport shoes
- Sheridan – quilt-covers, sheets and towels can be dropped off at their in-store bins (some incentives may apply)
- Priceline Pharmacy – recycles empty makeup containers
- H&M – take unwanted clothing that they separate into clothing that can be re-worn, reused, or recycled (some incentives may apply).
- Vinnies
- Good Sammy
- Salvos.
Once you’ve done what you can to repair and rehome items, it’s time to book your verge collection.
Before booking a collection, please refer to the terms and conditions outlined on this page.
It is very important to select the right types of items that will be put out when you complete your booking. If you don’t do this correctly, some items may not be collected.
Note: Rural properties are not eligible to book verge collections. These properties are given a residential bulk waste disposal pass instead. However, you can still book a mattress collection.
To change your booking, make your changes using the link below at least eight days before your scheduled collection. If you have any questions or need to cancel your booking, please please contact us.
Items that are not accepted can be taken to the Red Hill Waste Management Facility or find your nearest drop-off point: www.recycleright.wa.gov.au/find-my-nearest/
Household
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General bulk waste
E-waste
Metal
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Green waste
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Up to three mattresses can be collected each financial year. This could be arranged as one collection (with three mattresses collected at once) or over multiple collections (up to three).
Mattress collections do not count towards your two household verge collections. However, you will also need to arrange a household collection if you need us to collect a bedframe or mattress base.
Items can be set out up to 48 hours before the collection date.
- Place items on your front verge, side verge or in a laneway (we do not collect from vacant blocks, parks or reserves)
- Do not place waste inside your property boundary as our collection team cannot enter private property to collect items
- Do not obstruct the footpath, your normal bin service or the line of sight for motorists.
- We will not collect items placed against walls, water mains, Telstra boxes, power boxes, fences, poles, trees, low hanging branches, sprinklers, utilities, cars or letterboxes
- Place your bulk pile at least one meter away from any obstructions
- Put your items out by 6am the day of your collection
- Do not put items out more than two days before your collection, this could result in an infringement
- Ensure that your pile is no larger than three cubic metres in size
- Do not leave items not intended for bulk collection on the verge
- Separate waste into piles according to its type. E.g. green waste, mattresses, metal, e-waste and general waste.
To address this, the City works with contractors to provide additional collection slots. However, there may still be instances when available times don’t match your preferred schedule.
If this is the case, we encourage you to visit one of our recycling centres in Bullsbrook or Malaga. Residents have unlimited free* access to these centres, where you can drop off recyclable items* at your convenience.
Visit our recycling centres page for more information.
*Accepted items only
*Some fees and charges apply
*Trucks and commercial loads are not accepted at any of our centres.