Council Clean Up
Council offers a service for collecting bulky household items, mattresses and white goods. Use the drop down below to find out how to organise a Council Clean Up in your suburb.
Inner West Council – West (former Ashfield area)
Inner West Council offers:
- free scheduled Clean Up for bulky household items and furniture.
- free booked Clean Up for bulky household items and furniture
- free booked mattress and white goods collection
Still have items you want to dispose of? Council operates a Weekend Transfer Station that accepts mattresses, e-waste, garden organics and recycling for free. Councils' two Community Recycling Centres accept problem wastes such as some chemicals and e-waste.
Scheduled Clean Up collection
Check the online waste calendar to find out the exact date for the next collection at your address.
How to prepare for a Clean Up collection
- Check our accepted items list below.
- Separate metals, garden waste and mattresses into different piles. These materials may be collected by different collection crews.
- Please place items neatly on the kerb the night before your collection. Any items placed out earlier could be considered illegal dumping.
- Don’t place items out late – they will not be collected.
- Please remove all doors and locks from refrigerators and other items that have compartments for safety reasons.
- Don’t place materials so they block the footpath or hinder pedestrian access
What we collect
- Old furniture and damaged household items
- White goods
- Bundled and tied ropes, strings, hoses
- Garden waste, tied in bundles or bagged, less than 1m in length
What we don't collect
- Car parts
- Paint, oils, gas cylinders, batteries, fluorescent lamps/tubes, smoke alarms – you can bring many of these to one of our Community Recycling Centres
- Building materials such as bricks, concrete, soil, sand, asbestos – See the Business Recycling website for drop off options
- TVs, computers and peripherals – you can drop these to one of our Community Recycling Centres
Book a Clean Up collection
How to prepare for a Clean Up collection
- Check our accepted items list below.
- Please place items neatly on the kerb the night before your collection. Any items placed out earlier could be considered illegal dumping.
- Don’t place items out late – they will not be collected.
- Please remove all doors and locks from refrigerators and other items that have compartments for safety reasons.
- Don’t place materials so they block the footpath or hinder pedestrian access
What we collect
- Old furniture and damaged household items
- Bundled and tied ropes, strings, hoses
- Garden waste, tied in bundles or bagged, less than 1m in length
What we don't collect
- White goods - Council offers a separate white goods collection. See below to book.
- Car parts
- Paint, oils, gas cylinders, batteries, fluorescent lamps/tubes, smoke alarms – you can bring many of these to one of our Community Recycling Centres
- Building materials such as bricks, concrete, soil, sand, asbestos – See the Business Recycling website for drop off options
- TVs, computers and peripherals – you can drop these to one of our Community Recycling Centres
Book a Clean Up collection
Report a missed booked Clean Up
Cancel a booked Clean Up
Book a white goods and mattress collection
All white goods and mattresses collected are recycled. Inner West Council has partnered with mattress recyclers to collect, reuse and recycle mattresses. Mattresses that cannot be used are dismantled and recycled.
How to prepare for a Clean Up collection
- Check our accepted items list below.
- Try to book at least two weeks in advance.
- Please place items neatly on the kerb the night before your collection.
- Any items placed out earlier could be considered illegal dumping
What we collect
- Ovens and stove tops
- Washing machines
- Refrigerators and freezers
- Clothes dryers
- Microwaves
- Metal water heaters
- Small metal appliances (non-repairable)
- Guttering (cut into approx. 1 metre lengths)
- Mattresses
What we don't collect
- Car parts
- Paint, oils, gas cylinders, batteries, fluorescent lamps/tubes, smoke alarms – you can bring many of these to our Community Recycling Centres
- Building materials such as bricks, concrete, soil, sand, asbestos – See the Business Recycling website for drop off options
- TVs, computers and peripherals – you can drop these to one of our Community Recycling Centres
- Furniture including bed frames and air mattresses - refer to scheduled Council Clean Up
- Recyclables
- Polystyrene foam
- Garden waste
Book a mattress collection
Book a white goods collection
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Inner West Council – North (former Leichhardt area)
Inner West Council offers:
- free scheduled Clean Up for bulky household items and furniture.
- free booked mattress and white goods collections for recycling.
Still have items you want to dispose of? Council operates a Weekend Transfer Station that accepts mattresses, e-waste, garden organics and recycling for free. Councils' two Community Recycling Centres accept problem wastes such as some chemicals and e-waste.
Scheduled Clean Up collection
Check the online waste calendar to find out the exact date for the next collection at your address.
How to prepare for a Clean Up collection
- Check our accepted items list below.
- Please place items neatly on the kerb the night before your collection. Any items placed out earlier could be considered illegal dumping.
- Maximum 1 utility load (approximately 1.5m x 1.5m x 1m).
- Don’t place items out late – they will not be collected.
- Don’t place materials so they block the footpath or hinder pedestrian access
What we collect
- Old furniture and damaged household items
- Bundled and tied ropes, strings, hoses
- Garden waste, tied in bundles or bagged, less than 1m in length
What we don't collect
- Car parts
- Whitegoods – see below for a booked whitegoods collection
- Paint, oils, gas cylinders, batteries, fluorescent lamps/tubes, smoke alarms – you can bring many of these to one of our Community Recycling Centres
- Building materials such as bricks, concrete, soil, sand, asbestos – See the Business Recycling website for drop off options
- TVs, computers and peripherals – you can drop these to one of our Community Recycling Centres
Book a free white goods and mattress Clean Up collection
All white goods and mattresses collected are recycled. Inner West Council has partnered with mattress recyclers to collect, reuse and recycle mattresses. Mattresses that cannot be used are dismantled and recycled.
How to prepare for a Clean Up collection
- Check our accepted items list below.
- Try to book at least two weeks in advance.
- Please place items neatly on the kerb the night before your collection.
- Any items placed out earlier could be considered illegal dumping
What we collect
- Ovens and stove tops
- Washing machines
- Refrigerators and freezers
- Clothes dryers
- Microwaves
- Metal water heaters
- Small metal appliances (non-repairable)
- Guttering (cut into approx. 1 metre lengths)
- Mattresses
What we don't collect
- Car parts
- Paint, oils, gas cylinders, batteries, fluorescent lamps/tubes, smoke alarms – you can bring many of these to our Community Recycling Centres
- Building materials such as bricks, concrete, soil, sand, asbestos – See the Business Recycling website for drop off options
- TVs, computers and peripherals – you can drop these to one of our Community Recycling Centres
- Furniture including bed frames and air mattresses - refer to scheduled Council Clean Up
- Recyclables
- Polystyrene foam
- Garden waste
Book a mattress Clean Up collection
Book a white goods Clean Up collection
Report a missed booked Clean Up
Cancel a booked Clean Up
Inner West Council – South (former Marrickville area)
Inner West Council offers free booked Clean Up collection for:
- bulky household items and furniture
- branches and real Christmas trees
- metal and white goods
- mattresses.
Still have items you want to dispose of? Council operates a Weekend Transfer Station that accepts mattresses, e-waste, garden organics and recycling for free. Councils' two Community Recycling Centres accept problem wastes such as some chemicals and e-waste.
How to prepare for a Clean Up collection
- Choose the correct waste categories below and check the accepted items list.
- Book at least two weeks in advance
- There is a limit of no more than 2 cubic metres of waste (equivalent to a small trailer load) per collection. This means that timber fencing, etc. needs to be less than 2 metres in length.
- Please place items neatly on the kerb the night before your collection. Any items placed out earlier could be considered illegal dumping.
- Don’t place items out late – they will not be collected.
- Please remove all doors and locks from refrigerators and other items that have compartments for safety reasons.
- Don’t place materials so they block the footpath or hinder pedestrian access
Book a Clean Up collection
Report a missed Clean Up collection
Household items and furniture
Just place broken items out for collection as all of these will go to landfill. Check our A–Z: What goes where? for a range alternatives to dispose of many of your unwanted goods.
What we collect
- Broken furniture and damaged household items
- Unusable timber and bed frames
- Used floor coverings
- Broken small appliances (to work towards zero waste Council offers drop offs for e-waste at one of our Community Recycling Centre)
What we don't collect
- Car parts
- Paint, oils, gas cylinders, batteries, fluorescent lamps/tubes, smoke alarms – you can bring many of these to one of our Community Recycling Centres
- Building materials such as bricks, concrete, soil, sand, asbestos – See the Business Recycling website for drop off options
- TVs, computers and peripherals – you can drop these to one of our Community Recycling Centres
- Household garbage
- Items that cannot be lifeted by two persons
Branches
All of the tree branches collected are processed into mulch and compost.
What we collect
- Tree branches, bundled and tied
- Christmas trees, bundled and tied
- Maximum 1m in length and 15cm in diameter
What we don't collect
- Tree stumps
- Dirt
- Leaves in plastic bags
- Rocks
- Building rubble
- Garden hoses
- General household garbage
- Timber off cuts, untreated and painted
Metal and white goods
Metal and whitegoods booked through the free clean-up service are recycled.
What we collect
- BBQs
- Stoves
- Microwaves
- Fridges and Freezers
- Washing machines and dryers
- Hot water systems
- Guttering (maximum 1.8 metres long)
- Single sheet galvanised iron (maximum 1.8 metres long)
- Metal bed frames
What we don't collect
- Car parts
- Paint, oils, gas cylinders, batteries, fluorescent lamps/tubes, smoke alarms – you can bring many of these to one of our Community Recycling Centres
- Building materials such as bricks, concrete, soil, sand, asbestos – See the Business Recycling website for drop off options
- Recyclables
- Building rubble
- Polystyrene foam
Mattresses
Inner West Council has partnered with mattress recyclers to collect, reuse and recycle mattresses. Mattresses that cannot be used are dismantled and recycled.
Please note that mattresses are collected within 48 hours of your booked collection date on weekdays, excluding holidays. A maximum of 3 mattresses are allowed per booking.
What we collect
- Mattresses
- Ensemble bases
- Futons
What we don't collect
- Sofa beds
- Metal bed frames
- Timber bed frames
- Pillows
- Air mattresses