Welcome!

We're super excited that you're interested in contributing your kitchen scraps to the HCC!

 

We currently offer our curbside collection service in Hackett, Watson, Downer, Dickson, Ainslie and Braddon (Turner and Lyneham coming soon!). If you are in another Canberra suburb please head over to our contact page to pledge your interest. If enough households in your suburb do this then we can expand to cover more of Canberra.

Select the right collection service for you

Book in your curbside scraps collection

Are you in a house or apartment/unit (discounts for smaller dwellings!)? Try out the collection service for 3 months or commit for a whole 6 months. Please see the table below for correct pricing depending on your situation, as well as our current collection schedule.

We supply you with a post-consumer, clean, lidded bucket to collect your scraps in. These will be swapped over on your collection day, with clean buckets supplied each time. You're welcome to use your own kitchen caddy instead, we can empty these on your set pick-up day (you might want to rinse it after emptying).

Twice weekly collections are available in Hackett, and for a cheaper price too! Just because it's easy and we love keeping it local :)

Then you're all set to start filling buckets

Fill your bucket with household food scraps. Remember no meat/fish/dairy and please take the pesky fruit stickers off! (For what goes in the bucket, see our FAQ.) Place full buckets in an easy to access, prominent spot; near the letterbox is good. Make sure it's a spot where the empty buckets won't blow away (or where you can keep a half brick to pop on top of the empties). We advise leaving the lid off during the week (for oxygenation), and putting the bucket (with lid on for no-mess transport) out the night before your collection day.

In Hackett?

Hackett bucket collection days are Tuesdays and/or Fridays

Discounts for apartments/units, twice weekly pick-up or 6 month sign-ups!

House, once weekly, pay for 3 months = $28 (6 months $54)

House, twice weekly, pay for 3 months = $25 (6 months $48)
Apartment, pay for 3 months = $20 (6 months $38)

 

 

 

Other suburb?

Watson/Downer collections on Fridays, Dickson/Ainslie/Braddon collections are Wednesdays

Discounts for apartments/units, or 6 month sign-ups!

House, once weekly, pay for 3 months = $30 (6 months $57)

Apartment, pay for 3 months = $24 (6 months $46)

 

 

 

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Enter your collection info

Collections in Hackett are carried out Tuesdays and Fridays.
For Hackett residents, we recommend twice weekly collections.

Watson collections are carried out Fridays

Downer collections are carried out Fridays

Dickson collections are carried out Wednesdays

Ainslie collections are carried out Wednesdays

Braddon collections are carried out Wednesdays

Even if your suburb is not listed, if you're in the inner north of Canberra, please get in touch!
If we get 5 requests in your suburb (or if you are able to organise them yourself) we can discuss setting up an additional collection day.







  • Hackett

  • Watson

  • Downer

  • Dickson

  • Ainslie

  • Braddon

  • Turner and Lyneham - coming soon!

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