The City of Melbourne waste and recycling hub network helps to improve commercial waste management and increase recycling, while improving public amenity. Most businesses located near waste and recycling hubs use our service. Apply to join our service.
Map
There are a variety of waste and recycling hubs across our city. Find out more about their locations in the map and further details below. You can also filter the map by waste/recycling stream via the icon at bottom-right of the map.
- Balcombe Place from Little Collins Street
- Caledonian Lane between Lonsdale Street and Little Bourke Street
- Kirks Lane from Little Bourke Street
- Lacey Place from Little Bourke Street
- Bullens Lane between Russell Street and Little Bourke Street
- Literature Lane between Little La Trobe Street and Little La Trobe Street
- Brien Lane between Bourke Street and Little Bourke Street
- Bullens Lane between Russell Street and Little Bourke Street
- Caledonian Lane between Lonsdale Street and Little Bourke Street
- Carson Place from Little Collins Street
- Centre Place from Flinders Lane
- Coverlid Place from Little Bourke Street
- Degraves Place from Degraves Street
- Flinders Court between Flinders Lane and Flinders Street
- Hardware Lane between Little Bourke Street and Lonsdale Street
- Market Lane between Bourke Street and Little Bourke Street
- Masons Lane from Little Collins Street
- Sniders Lane from Drewery Lane
- Warburton Lane from Little Bourke Street
- Albion Alley from Little Bourke Street
- Globe Alley from Little Bourke Street
- Literature Lane between Little La Trobe Street and Little La Trobe Street
- Westwood Place between Bourke Street and Little Collins Street
- Austral Lane from Little Collins Street
- Brien Lane between Bourke Street and Little Bourke Street
- Bullens Lane between Russell Street and Little Bourke Street
- Caledonian Lane between Lonsdale Street and Little Bourke Street
- Carson Place from Little Collins Street
- Celestial Avenue from Little Bourke Street
- Centre Place from Flinders Lane
- Chester Lane from Flinders Lane
- Chisholm Place from Little Lonsdale Street
- Monaghan Place from Flinders Lane
- Coromandel Place from Little Collins Street
- Coverlid Place from Little Bourke Street
- Harwood Place from Little Bourke Street
- Degraves Place from Degraves Street
- Donaldson Lane from Russell Street
- ACDC Lane from Flinders Lane
- Evans Lane from Little Lonsdale Street
- Flinders Court between Flinders Lane and Flinders Street
- Globe Alley from Little Bourke Street
- Hardware Lane between Little Bourke Street and Lonsdale Street
- Hayward Lane between Lonsdale Street and Little Lonsdale Street
- Highlander Lane between Flinders Street and Flinders Lane
- Kirks Lane from Little Bourke Street
- Lees Place between Little Bourke Street and Exhibition Street
- Literature Lane between Little La Trobe Street and Little La Trobe Street
- Market Lane between Bourke Street and Little Bourke Street
- Masons Lane from Little Collins Street
- Mercantile Place between King Street and Katherine Place
- Hardware Street between Lonsdale Street and Little Lonsdale Street
- Park Street between La Trobe Street and Little Lonsdale Street
- Penfold Place from Little Collins Street
- Presgrave Place from Howey Place
- Punch Lane from Little Bourke Street
- Kulinbulok Lane from Queen Street
- Rainbow Alley from Little Collins Street
- Roeszler Lane from Bank Place
- Rutledge Lane from Hosier Lane
- Sniders Lane from Drewery Lane
- Stevenson Lane from Tattersalls Lane
- Temple Court Place between Little Collins Street and Gurners Lane
- Turnbull Alley from Spring Street
- Uniacke Court from Little Bourke Street
- Warburton Lane from Little Bourke Street
- Albion Alley from Little Bourke Street
- Amphlett Lane from Little Bourke Street
- Ridgway Place from Little Collins Street
- Brown Alley between Little Bourke Street and Lonsdale Street
- Highlander Lane between Flinders Street and Flinders Lane
- Melbourne Place from Russell Street
- Tavistock Place between Flinders Street and Flinders Lane
- Cosgrave Lane between Bourke Street and Little Bourke Street
- Barry Lane between Lonsdale Street and Little Bourke Street
- Benjamin Lane from Bourke Street
- Wicklow Lane from Little Lonsdale Street
- Strachan Lane from Exhibition Street
- Geddes Lane from Flinders Lane
- Zevenboom Lane from Little Lonsdale Street
- St Bishoy Lane between La Trobe Street and Sutherland Street
- Finlay Alley between Queen Street and Little Lonsdale Street
- Hayward Lane between Little Lonsdale Street and La Trobe Street
- Heape Court from Little Lonsdale Street
- CL1206 from Westwood Place
- Cl1054a from Faraday Lane
- Lygon Lane between Grattan Lane and Faraday Lane
Literature Lane
Area bound by A'Beckett Street, Swanston Street, La Trobe Street, Elizabeth Street.
Caledonian Lane
Area bound by Little Lonsdale Street, Swanston Street, Bourke Street, Elizabeth Street, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Central.
Degraves/Centre Place
Area bound by Collins Street, Swanston Street, Flinders Street, Elizabeth Street.
Area bound by Victoria Street, Spring Street, Flinders Street, Spencer Street, La Trobe Street, William Street, Peel Street.
Recycling hubs
City of Melbourne cardboard and mixed recycling bins are accessible 24/7. Recycling helps reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and improve amenity issues in busy central city locations. Paper, cardboard, glass, aluminium, plastic bottles and containers can be recycled at our recycling hubs. For other waste and recycling items, see A-Z guide to recycling and waste.
Waste compactors
Waste compactors take non-recyclable materials to landfill. The machine compresses the garbage so that a lot more can fit in compared to normal bins. Fees apply for most businesses. Usage fees are charged according to usage.
Access fees
| Usage level | Fee per quarter (including GST) | Maximum frequency of use |
|---|---|---|
| Low | $452.00 | Up to seven times per week |
| Medium | $1680.00 | Up to three times per day |
| High | $2677.00 | Up to seven times per day |
| Very high | $3,650.00 | More than seven times per day or over 1000 kg deposited weekly |
Additional fees
- Replacement compactor access card: $68.00
- Reactivation payment fee: $112.00
Payment of waste compactor account reactivation fees, as well as the collection and payment of new or replacement access cards will be from Melbourne Town Hall. Customers will need to book an appointment by calling 03 9658 9658.
Application requests and reporting issues
Apply to join or report an issue with a card, waste compactor or recycling hub
Text on screen 'Waste and recycling projects'
[Speaker: Gordon Harrison, Team leader, Engineering programs] The City of Melbourne initiated these waste management programs to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill to improve recycling and to make the city amenity better.
We are doing that by working in partnership with residents and businesses and getting them to come along with us on what is really a change management journey. And as part of that we've set up things like new compactors and recycling hubs to make it as easy as possible for people to join with us.
Text on screen 'Compactors and recycling hubs in laneways'
[Speaker: Sally Blastock, Project Manager, Waste Standards] The compactors in laneways and recycling hub project is an initiative that the City of Melbourne is taking. Our main focus is amenity issues that go on with bins in public spaces and that includes everything from dump rubbish, leaking, smelling overflowing bins.
The compactors are a way that businesses and residents can dispose of their garbage and their recycling, rather than each having their own individual bins stored outside. It's just one central hub, one central place.
[Speaker: Ian Clarke, Kirks Wine Bar] The recycling hubs are very important to a business like ours. For us, as we are quite a small business ,small wine bar, we had issues with storage of rubbish ,and this is actually completely solved that issue no questions asked. It's helped a local community really kind of enjoy and love their areas a lot more. It's just lovely it's clean its organised and it's not a visual issue for anybody to deal with. Thank you'
