Garbage and Recycling

If you have furniture, white goods or other metal household items that need to be disposed of, the City of Sydney council provides a free collection service. 

Items for collection are to be left on the footpath against the black tiled wall, left side of the main garbage room at the top of the driveway, on Monday, before an available council collection date ONCE you have arranged a pick up.

Collections take place on Tuesdays from 6am with a min of 48 business hours notice. To request a collection please email buildingmanager@venetianpyrmont.com with your name, apartment number, contact number and the items to be collected.

Before you request a collection please read the following information on what the council will and will not collect and how to prepare your items for collection:  

https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/waste-recycling-services/book-pick-up-for-bulky-items

1. Mattress bookings

Will pick up

• Mattresses in any size and condition

• Mattresses of any type such as foam, latex and futon

• Bed base ensembles (these are fabric-covered bed bases)

Will not pick up

• Wooden or metal bedheads, frames or slats – we can pick these up but please book them under furniture or metal items. This is because they go to different facilities

2. Bulky items or furniture bookings

Will pick up

• Furniture - tables, chairs, sofas/lounges, wardrobes, bookshelves

• Mats and small rugs (small ones or cut into 1m lengths) - no carpet, please

• Bundled and tied garden waste that can't fit into a bin

• Appliances - vacuum cleaners and kitchen appliances

• Wooden barbecues (Barbecues with both wooden and metal parts)

Will not pick up

• Bags of rubbish, Building renovation or demolition material – carpet, bricks, rubble, dirt, piping, roofing panels, doors, plasterboard, tiles, girders, timber, fencing

• Hazardous materials – paints, chemicals, flammable liquids, poisons

• Motor oil or cooking oil

• Fluorescent lights

• Tree stumps or branches thicker than 10cm (our trucks can’t handle it)

3. Metal items or whitegoods bookings

Will pick up

• Fridges, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers and ovens

• Heaters and hot water systems

• Lawnmowers (empty of fuel)

• Metal barbecues – barbecues made from metal only (we pick up barbecues with wooden parts but please book them under furniture. This is because they go to different facilities)

• Gym equipment – bikes, trampolines, weight benches and treadmills

• Steel ladders

• Ironing boards

Will not pick up

• Any sort of car parts – no motor oil, batteries and tyres either

• Gas bottles

• Building materials – no roofing panels, metal doors/frames, girders

• Hazardous materials – paints, chemicals, flammable liquids, poisons

Preparing for your collection

It’s important to follow the rules. It keeps our workers and your neighbours safe. We can’t pick up items that are not properly prepped.

• Separate your whitegoods and metal items from your furniture as they are picked up by different trucks.

• Use tape to seal fridge/oven doors (to protect children).

• Wrap and label sharp or dangerous items like mirrors and glass.

• Cut large rugs into 1m lengths, roll and tie them with string or tape. Otherwise, they can jam our compactors.

• Put small items into boxes, loose materials won’t be collected.

• Keep your pick-up to 1 cubic metre per booking (about a box trailer load).

• Make sure all items (except whitegoods) are less than 1.5m or 100kg. 

Monday is the only date for placing the eligible items on the street for council collection, or passers-by may add to the pile and the entire pile may be considered illegal dumping and rejected by the council collection crew, potentially resulting in a fine. 

Please note, only building management team is eligible to contact council and book the bulky item pickup. Do not contact council yourself for the booking.

If you have any questions about the information on this page, please send an email to buildingmanager@venetianpyrmont.com