Waste Management

Waste Services

Garbage rooms are located in the hallways of each wing

  • Use garbage chutes for non-recyclable material, do not put large items down the chutes as they get stuck.

  • Place recyclable material in the yellow recycling bins, please flatten cardboard boxes.

  • Yellow recycling bins can only be used to recycle soft plastics by using special bags provided for free through the Curby soft plastics recycling program: https://www.curbyit.com/softplastics/.

Red and yellow bins are managed by the building cleaners.

Detailed information on what can be placed in recycling bins can be found on the council website: https://newcastle.nsw.gov.au/living/waste-and-recycling/collection-services/your-kerbside-waste-service/using-your-bins.

Collection Days

Bins are collected on Tuesdays, the building is in collection Zone 1.


Green Waste

Green waste bins are located on the Level 4 gardens, if you place material in one of these bins please move the bin to Brown Street for collection.

Bulk Waste

The building does not have facilities for disposing of large items however: