Dunedin Rubbish & Recycling

Bin collection days for every Dunedin suburb, what goes in each bin, and where to drop off everything else.

Dunedin has a green-lidded bin for food scraps and garden waste, collected every week, plus a yellow-lidded recycling bin one week and a blue glass bin and red-lidded rubbish bin the next. Here is how to find your collection day, what goes in each bin, and where to take everything else.

Have your bins out by 7am on collection day. A few streets differ from the rest of their suburb, so check your exact address with the council’s lookup.

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Tap your suburb to see its days.

Which bin does it go in?

Green binFood and garden · every week

Yes

  • Fruit, vegetables and bread
  • Meat, bones and seafood
  • Cheese, eggs and butter
  • Loose-leaf tea and coffee grounds
  • Lawn clippings, leaves and small branches
  • Hair and animal fur

No

  • Paper and cardboard
  • Any plastics, including compostable ones
  • Tea bags and bin liners
  • Ash, soil and treated timber
  • Flax, cabbage tree and palm leaves
  • Animal poo and kitty litter

Leave your kitchen caddy inside, don't put it out.

Yellow binRecycling · every 2 weeks

Yes

  • Plastic bottles and containers 1, 2 and 5
  • Steel and aluminium tins and cans
  • Paper, magazines and newspapers
  • Flat, clean cardboard

No

  • Lids, caps, pumps and triggers
  • Aerosols and foil
  • Milk and juice cartons
  • Soft plastics and polystyrene
  • Glass (it goes in the blue bin)
  • Anything bagged

Clean, lids off and not flattened, except cardboard.

Blue binGlass · every 2 weeks

Yes

  • Clean, unbroken glass bottles and jars, lids off

No

  • Lids, caps and pumps
  • Oven-safe glass and drinking glasses
  • Window, mirror or windscreen glass
  • Light bulbs
  • Broken glass (wrap it, red bin)

Max 12kg.

Red binRubbish · every 2 weeks

Yes

  • Household rubbish that can't be reused or recycled
  • Cold, dampened ashes in a bag
  • Wrapped broken glass and light bulbs

No

  • Gas bottles and batteries
  • Hazardous waste
  • Liquids and hot ashes
  • Green waste and soil
  • Heavy items

The council advises not using plastic bin liners.

Public holidays

Bins are collected as usual on public holidays, except Good Friday (collected Easter Saturday), and Christmas Day and New Year's Day when they fall on a weekday (collected the following Saturday).

Coming up: Christmas Day is Friday 25 December, so Friday bins go out on Saturday 26 December. New Year's Day is Friday 1 January, so Friday bins go out on Saturday 2 January.

Drop-off points

Green Island Landfill and Resource Recovery Park

9 Brighton Road, Green Island

Monday to Saturday 8am to 5.30pm; Sunday 9am to 5.30pm (closed Christmas Day and Good Friday; Anzac Day from 1pm)

Rubbish (fee)Green waste (fee)Recycling (free)Hazardous wasteE-wasteReusable goodsDirections

Waikouaiti Transfer Station

140 Edinburgh Street, Waikouaiti

Wednesday 12pm to 5pm; Saturday and Sunday 10am to 5pm (closed Christmas Day and Good Friday)

RubbishRecyclingGlassGreen wasteScrap metal and whitewareCar tyresDirections

Middlemarch Transfer Station

Garthmyl Road, Middlemarch

Tuesday and Thursday 10am to 12pm; Saturday and Sunday 2pm to 5pm (closed Christmas Day and Good Friday)

RubbishRecyclingGlassScrap metal and whitewareCar tyresDirections

Every suburb’s collection day

SuburbCollection dayCalendar
AbbotsfordThursdayWeek 1
AllantonThursdayWeek 1
Andersons BayWednesdayWeek 1 or 2 (depends on street)
BalaclavaFridayWeek 2
BelleknowesTuesdayWeek 2
BlackheadFridayWeek 2
BradfordTuesdayWeek 2
BrightonThursdayWeek 1
Broad BayWednesdayWeek 1
BrockvilleTuesdayWeek 2
BurnsideTuesday or Thursday (depends on street)Week 1 or 2 (depends on street)
Careys BayMondayWeek 2
CavershamFridayWeek 1 or 2 (depends on street)
ConcordFridayWeek 2
DalmoreMondayWeek 2
Dunedin CentralTuesday or Friday (depends on street)Week 2
East TaieriThursdayWeek 1
FairfieldThursdayWeek 1
GlenleithMondayWeek 1
Green IslandThursday or Friday (depends on street)Week 1 or 2 (depends on street)
Halfway BushTuesdayWeek 1 or 2 (depends on street)
KaikoraiTuesdayWeek 1 or 2 (depends on street)
KaritaneMondayWeek 2
KenmureTuesdayWeek 2
KensingtonWednesday or Friday (depends on street)Week 1 or 2 (depends on street)
Larnachs CastleWednesdayWeek 1
LibertonMondayWeek 2
Lookout PointFridayWeek 2
Macandrew BayWednesdayWeek 1
MaiaMondayWeek 2
Maori HillTuesdayWeek 1
MomonaThursdayWeek 2
MorningtonFriday or Tuesday (depends on street)Week 2
MosgielThursdayWeek 1 or 2 (depends on street)
MusselburghWednesdayWeek 2
NormanbyMondayWeek 1
North DunedinTuesday or Monday (depends on street)Tertiary area or Week 1 (depends on street)
North East ValleyMondayWeek 1
Ocean GroveWednesdayWeek 2
Ocean ViewThursdayWeek 1
OpohoMondayWeek 1
OtakouWednesdayWeek 1
OutramThursdayWeek 2
Pine HillMondayWeek 1 or 2 (depends on street)
Port ChalmersMondayWeek 2
PortobelloWednesdayWeek 1
RavensbourneMondayWeek 2
RoseneathMondayWeek 2
RoslynTuesdayWeek 1 or 2 (depends on street)
Saddle HillThursdayWeek 1
Saint ClairFriday or Wednesday (depends on street)Week 1 or 2 (depends on street)
Saint KildaWednesdayWeek 2
Saint LeonardsMondayWeek 2
Sawyers BayMondayWeek 2
Shiel HillWednesdayWeek 1
South DunedinWednesday or Friday (depends on street)Week 1 or 2 (depends on street)
TainuiWednesdayWeek 2
The CoveWednesdayWeek 1
The GlenFridayWeek 2
VauxhallWednesdayWeek 1
WaikouaitiMondayWeek 2
WaitatiMondayWeek 2
WakariTuesdayWeek 1
WaldronvilleThursday or Friday (depends on street)Week 1 or 2 (depends on street)
WaverleyWednesdayWeek 1
WoodhaughMondayWeek 1 or 2 (depends on street)

Good to know

What about the tertiary area?

In the tertiary (student) area, all four bins go out every Tuesday.

Can I get an extra garden bin?

Yes. An extra 240 litre garden waste bin costs $95 a year plus a one-off $33 delivery fee. It is collected every 2 weeks, on the same day as your yellow bin. Apply in person at a council service centre.

My bin wasn't collected. What now?

Report it by 5pm the day after collection, online or by calling the council on 03 477 4000. The DCC Kerbside Collection app shows your next collection day.

Bin rules and drop-off points from the Dunedin City Council website. Collection areas from Dunedin City Council mapping data. Checked 22 October 2026.