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Waste and recycling

Your bin collections may vary over the holiday period, view the Holiday season collections

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Your FOGO bin

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Your glass bin

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Your mixed recycling bin

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Your household waste bin

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Bin collection at your home

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Ballarat Waste and Recycling app

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Ballarat Soft Plastics Collection Pilot Program

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Leaf collection

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Transfer Station

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Transfer Station Fees

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Hard waste

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Electronic waste (eWaste)

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Syringes and sharps

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Asbestos and mould

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5320 5500

Address:

The Phoenix
25 Armstrong Street South
Ballarat, Vic, Australia

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Monday –  Friday, 8.30am  –  5pm

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info@ballarat.vic.gov.au

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The City of Ballarat acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we live and work on, the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung Peoples, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

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