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Kempsey Shire Council’s waste team ensures the shire’s waste is collected, transported and managed safely, efficiently and cost-effectively. We are committed to helping our community to waste less and recycle more.
We are working to improve the way we sort and collect our waste to improve efficiencies and reduce community costs in the long term. Specifically, we aim to:
Council operates four waste and recycling centres and provides advice through its Waste Hotline on 1300 342 207.
Follow the links below to find out about your bin service, including bin collection days, which bin to use for your rubbish, waste vouchers, fees, and the waste and recycling centres near you.
Find out about household waste collection in Kempsey Shire, including green bins for food and garden organics, yellow bins for recycling and red bins for rubbish.
Information on kerbside bin collection and bin replacement.
Find out about Council's four waste and recycling centres, including locations, opening hours and where to use free waste vouchers.
Many waste services and options are available to help you manage and dispose of business waste and recycling.
Construction and demolition waste management, including disposal at Council’s Waste Management Centre, building material recycling and reuse, and safe asbestos removal and disposal.
Read common questions and answers about Kempsey Shire waste and recycling services, including how to use your red, yellow and green bins.
The plan will help Council transition from an adequate waste management service to one of leadership and innovation in recourse recovery and waste prevention.
Our waste factsheets are designed to make it easy to manage your household or business waste and find out about waste disposal fees.
Council must conduct monitoring by law, data publicly available, link to data, monitoring locations, Pollution Incident Response Management Plan documents how to respond to a pollution incident.
Council must conduct monitoring by law, data publicly available, link to data, monitoring locations, Pollution Incident Response Management Plan documents how to respond to pollution incident. Monitoring locations are outlined here.
Pollution monitoring data for Kempsey Waste Management Centre in compliance with Environment Protection Authority (EPA) requirements.
The waste voucher system entitles the owner of residential property that have a garbage service within the Kempsey Shire Council area to two Waste Disposal Vouchers.
Information on household waste disposal fees and charges, as well as of sorted and unsorted waste.
Definitions of different types of waste.