Our Waste Data

City of Belmont waste data

The City of Belmont is committed to helping create a more sustainable future and encourages all residents, businesses and visitors to reduce, reuse, recycle and recover to minimise waste.
 
The City’s waste collection processes include bulk bins, disposal days and regular kerbside bin collections. This waste is then recycled, recovered or diverted to landfill. In the tables below, you can find the latest figures on how the City’s waste is being managed. This data is updated every three months.

Waste generation and resource recovery 2024/2025

Item (tonnes)	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Material collected	1684	1645	1657	1874	1612	1531	1665	1187	1468
Resource recovered	710	731	751	850	709	679	835	369	602
Recovery Target 67% by 2025 (per month)	1128	1102	1110	1256	1080	1025	1116	795	984
Recovery rate (%)	42	44	45	45	44	44	50	31	41

Waste services data 2024/2025

Item (tonnes)	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Kerbside waste to landfill	616	594	563	622	564	578	608	506	546
Kerbside recycling collected	262	255	249	267	244	258	283	225	236
Materials recovered	197	191	190	204	185	194	214	167	177
Residual waste to landfill	65	64	59	63	59	64	69	59	59
Kerbside FOGO collected	420	478	547	611	518	448	526	223	430
Kerbside FOGO recovered	332	371	413	470	396	369	511	98	305
Residual waste to landfill	88	107	134	142	122	79	15	125	125
Bulk bins delivered - blue	1213	1046	1009	1211	1152	949	1008	955	979
Material collected	302	241	221	287	230	192	196	185	196
Residual waste to landfill	205	150	151	198	158	131	137	128	136
Material recovered	97	91	70	90	71	62	59	57	60
Bulk bins delivered - green	423	339	339	414	279	340	294	271	339
Material recovered	85	77	78	87	56	53	52	47	60
Total material to landfill	886	783	751	858	759	773	792	693	741

Bulk waste recovery 2024/2025

Item (tonnes)	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Mixed metal ferrous	30.04	25.56	12.94	21.39	19.86	17.29	15.69	15.26	17.66
Untreated timber	11.54	13.46	13.56	15.77	12.24	6.58	4.94	4.80	4.55
Paper and cardboard	6.35	7.26	4.56	5.62	3.64	2.93	3.70	3.59	3.12
Fines (sand / rubble)	48.63	45.02	38.67	46.89	35.65	34.97	34.49	33.50	34.96
Total recovered	96.55	91.30	69.73	89.67	71.39	61.78	58.82	57.15	60.29
Recovery rate (%)	32	38	31	31	31	32	30	31	31

Kerbside recycling recovery 2024/2025

Item (tonnes)	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Aluminium cans	1.40	1.17	1.07	1.33	1.17	1.21	1.11	0.99	1.23
Mixed paper	57.79	54.24	53.55	56.71	48.99	57.61	58.43	48.52	48.25
Corrugated cardboard	63.30	65.65	62.97	67.81	65.24	65.31	65.03	57.94	58.23
Steel	7.20	6.99	6.81	5.50	6.67	5.48	7.73	6.02	7.43
Glass	52.61	48.14	49.04	53.50	50.19	52.81	68.69	41.71	50.87
Mixed plastics	5.91	6.59	8.16	7.88	3.05	3.51	6.54	4.85	4.74
Plastic - PET	5.20	4.65	4.90	6.43	6.15	5.01	3.70	3.02	2.74
Plastic - HDPE	3.32	4.03	3.08	4.62	3.91	3.33	2.76	3.45	3.33
Total recovered	196.75	191.46	189.58	203.79	185.37	194.29	213.99	166.50	176.82
Recovery rate (%)	75	75	76	76	76	75	70	74	75

Previous data

Waste Data 2020-2021
Waste Data 2021-2022
Waste Data 2022-2023
Waste Data 2023-2024