Tasman Council’s waste collection service is currently contracted to Veolia Environmental Services. The contract commenced on 1-Jul-17 for a 5 year term.
The routine fortnightly collection is as follows;
Click here for a current waste collection calendar and details of what can be recycled:
Garbage & Recycling Calendar / What Can Go in Your Bin
Council is able to offer all ratepayers with a current waste collection to increase their recycling bin from 120L bin to 240L. If this is something that you would be interested in, please contact Council at your earliest convenience to organise a new bin and to discuss additional fees.
All residents have a green 120 or 240 litre wheelie bin for recycling and a 240 litre wheelie bin (red lid) for rubbish to be collected each fortnight. Please observe these requirements to assist with your collection:
If your bin is damaged or goes missing, you will need to advise Council in order for a replacement bin to be distributed. Your first replacement bin is free, subsequent bins will incur a replacement fee. Council encourages households to number your bin clearly to deter theft. If you wish to apply for an extra bin please contact Council. Additional waste collection charges will apply.
Contents from your domestic waste bin is transported to the Copping Landfill Site. This site is not open to the public.
Located at 60 Tip Road, Nubeena there is the Nubeena Transfer Station. Open hours are as follows:
The following fees apply for the disposal of rubbish at the transfer station:
Waste Management – Nubeena Waste Transfer Station – GST Included
Description | 2022-2023 | 2021-2022 |
Domestic (household) waste | $19 m3 or $4 per bag (whichever is less) | $18 m3 or $3.70 per bag (whichever is less) |
Recyclables | $19 m3 | $18 m3 |
Green Waste | $6 m3 | $6 m3 |
White goods | $12 per item | $11 per item |
Metal, Oil & Batteries | No Charge | No Charge |
Commercial & Construction Waste | $37 m3 | $35 m3 |
Tyres – cars, motorcycles (per tyre) | $10 | $10 |
Tyres – light truck, 4WD (per tyre) | $21 | $20 |
Truck tyres (per tyre) | $37 | $35 |
Recycing your old mobile phones through MobileMuster is easy and free;
For more information on why and where to recycle with MobileMuster go to www.mobilemuster.com.au
What parts of the phone is eligable?
You can drop off your old printer cartridges for recycling through ‘Cartridges 4 Planet Ark’ at the Nubeena Council Offices (1713 Main Road, Nubeena).
All inkjet cartridges, toner cartridges and toner bottles from participating brands can be placed in the ‘Cartridges 4 Planet Ark’ box.
For more information visit https://planetark.org/programs/cartridges-4-planet-ark
Empty agricultural & veterinary chemical containers (either plastic or metal) can be recycled under Agsafe’s drumMUSTER programme and turned into things like wheelie bins, pipes and fence posts.
Council holds periodic collection days at the Nubeena Transfer Station. Containers cannot be dropped off there at other times.
The containers must:
Containers that are not clean or do not have the logo cannot be accepted as part of this programme.
If you have containers to drop off or have further questions, please contact John Hueston at Tasman Council: john.hueston@tasman.tas.gov.au phone: 6250 9205
There are drop off points at Coles and Woolworths stores for clean and dry soft plastics (anything that will scrunch) e.g. bread bags, biscuit wrappers, packaging from toilet rolls, pasta bags, frozen food bags, lolly bags, plastic bags, old green recycled shopping bags, cereal box liners.
For a more detailed list of what can and cannot be accepted please go to:
http://www.redcycle.net.au/what-to-redcycle/
Woolworths in Sorell now has a battery and mobile phone recycling bin which accepts:
Battery World – Argyle St, Hobart accepts all types of batteries for recycling. There may be a fee for commercial quantities.
Marshall Batteries – 4 Gordon Street, Sorell accepts car batteries for recycling.
Officeworks in Hobart has a recycling programme for unwanted computers and other IT hardware.
There’s heaps of recycling ideas, information and even some games on the Rethink Waste Tasmania website: