Casey Conversations
We asked residents for their views regarding the future of waste in Casey. The Community Feedback Report is now available.
Changes to your bins are coming!
The state government is making statewide changes to kerbside bins. These include standardising bin lid colours, Food and garden bins for all residential properties and introducing a fourth bin, with a purple lid, for glass.
More information on how these changes are being implemented will be released shortly.
Rubbish bin
Red lid by
end of 2025
end of 2025
Recycling bin
Yellow lid by
end of 2025
end of 2025
Food & garden bin
All properties by
mid-2026
mid-2026
Glass bin
Coming 2026
Key initiatives coming to Casey
Casey's waste service is changing for the better. The waste collection service will roll out these changes statewide. The key benefits will include:
- Standardised lid colours:The same bins across the state will reduce confusion when households move from one municipality to another.
- Every household will have a Food and garden bin.Disposing of food in the food and garden bin allows the material to be composted and reused on Victorian farms, parks and gardens.
- Adding a new glass bin (purple lid):Glass is a critical resource that can be recycled indefinitely. Separating glass from co-mingled recycling allows for a higher recycling rate, improves the quality of cardboard and paper recycling, and fosters more significant investment in glass packaging instead of plastic.
Standardising household recycling across Victoria
Frequently asked questions
- How will these changes impact my rates?
The changes to the waste service are paid through the Waste Charge, seen on your annual rates notice. The glass bin implementation will be partly subsidised by the State Government. The required changes to comply with the kerbside reforms will increase the waste charge.
We are introducing more flexible sizes for your bins at home, this will give residents the ability to reduce their waste charge, by reducing the size of their bins.
- What is the 4-bin waste service?
The Victorian Government requires all Councils to move to a 4-bin system. This service will include:
- Food and garden waste organics bin
- General rubbish bin
- Co-mingled recycling bin
- Glass recycling bin
- Why are we introducing 4 bins?
The Victorian Government is standardising household waste and recycling services across the state. All Victorian council kerbside services will be required to move to a 4-bin system.
By separating your waste into 4 bins, your recycling can be processed more effectively, turning your waste into useful products. Recycling well and reducing waste helps keep valuable resources out of landfill so that they can be recycled and used again. Recycling reduces the need for new materials and is an important part of Victoria’s shift to a circular economy.
- Why do we need a glass recycling bin?
The Victorian Government requires all Councils to move to a 4-bin system, including the introduction of a dedicated glass bin.
In the current recycling bin, broken glass makes other items like cardboard, paper and plastic hard to recycle.
By putting your glass bottles and jars in a separate bin more glass can be recycled into new things like jars and bottles. It also reduces contamination in your mixed recycling bin, making sure that paper, cardboard and plastics can be recovered effectively, improving the quality and value of these materials to be turned into new products.
Glass is a valuable material that does not degrade through the recycling process, so it can be recycled again and again.
Once the new glass bin is introduced glass items will no longer be accepted in the mixed recycling bin.
- I don’t have much glass recycling. Do I need to have the glass recycling bin?
As required by the State Government policy, the 4-bin waste service will be introduced as the standard service for households in Casey.
There isn’t an option to opt out of having a glass recycling bin, just like you couldn't opt out of having a mixed recycling or general rubbish bin in the past.
You cannot opt out of using the glass recycling service because glass is no longer accepted in the yellow-lidded mixed recycling bin.
- What will happen to the glass that is collected?
Glass is a valuable material that can be recycled repeatedly, providing a sustainable packaging option for products.
All glass collected from City of Casey households will be recycled and processed into new glass bottles and jars; lower quality material will go into road aggregate and insulation.
- Why is my garbage and recycling bin lid changing?
The Victorian Government is standardising household waste and recycling services across the state. It is a requirement that all bin lids are the same across the state, meeting the following requirements:
- Household garbage bin = Red lid
- Co-mingled recycling bin = Yellow lid
- Food and organics bin = Lime green lid
- Glass bin = Purple lid
This change will allow for standardised state advertising and campaigns. While addressing a primary source of confusion for people, different colours for different municipalities.
- Why do we need a food organics and garden organics bin?
The Victorian Government requires all Councils to move to a 4-bin system, including the introduction of a food waste and garden organics bin for all properties.
Food thrown into your general rubbish bin ends up in landfill. Food in landfill creates greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. In Casey over 30% of household waste that goes to landfill is wasted food.
By putting your food waste in the food and garden organics bin, we can reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill in Casey. Putting your food scraps and garden clippings into your organics bin means less goes to landfill. This means your food scraps can be turned into mulch and compost instead of going to landfill.
Working together, the 4-bin service can help us reduce our carbon emissions and send less waste to landfill.
- I don’t have much food and garden waste. Do I need to have a food organics and garden organics bin?
As required by the State Government policy, the 4-bin waste service is now the standard service for households in Casey. There isn't currently an option to opt out of having a food and garden organics bin, just like you couldn't opt out of having a mixed recycling bin or general rubbish in the past.
We encourage you to keep composting or worm farming your food waste at home. The food and garden organics bin can work alongside your home compost or worm farm.
Food and garden waste that can cause problems in a home compost system – such as meat, seafood, dairy, citrus, onions, processed carbohydrates and garden weeds – can be placed in the food and garden organics bin.
- Is the hard waste service part of this consultation?
No it is not within the scope of this consultation. The service is regularly rated as a high performing service by residents.
This service may be reviewed in future community consultation.
- Why introduce smaller bins?
The introduction of 120L FOGO and Recycling bins are proposed to assist properties with limited space on the nature strip and storage on private property. Assisting smaller properties to facilite for the 4-bin service.
120L FOGO and recycling bins would introduce flexibility to the waste packages.
- Is the garbage going to be collected fortnightly?
There is no plan to change the collection frequency of the garbage. The topic is explored in the consultation, to gauge public interest in switching collection frequency. The results of the consultation may lead to the development of plans to incorporate it in the future.