Why it changes week to week
General waste is almost always weekly everywhere, so that one's rarely the question. The genuine uncertainty is recycling, green waste/FOGO, and (where a council runs one) glass — most of these run fortnightly, and some councils alternate recycling and green waste on opposite weeks rather than running both every second week together.
That means which bins go out this week can differ from your next-door street, and from what it was last fortnight — there's no single calendar that answers it for an entire suburb.
Check it instantly for your address
Enter your address on the home page and BinDayTracker shows you exactly which bins are due this week and your full upcoming schedule, pulled from your own council's real system rather than a generic cycle guess.
If you've already registered, you can also turn this into a free email, SMS or push reminder the evening before each actual collection — so you stop needing to check at all.
Once you know which bin — what actually goes in it
Knowing it's "recycling week" is only half the job if you're unsure whether something specific belongs in that bin. Our What Goes Where tool covers around 110 everyday items — search anything from batteries to pizza boxes to see exactly which bin it belongs in and why.