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 2022/2023

Item (tonnes)	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Material collected	1610	1778	1719	1649	1586	1569	1605	1432	1578
Resource recovered	326	356	335	318	297	285	298	275	304
Recovery Target 67% by 2025 (per month)	1079	1191	1151	1105	1063	1051	1075	959	1057
Recovery rate (%)	20	20	19	19	19	18	19	19	19

Waste services data 2022/2023

Item (tonnes)	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Kerbside waste to landfill	1089	1234	1202	1143	1098	1117	1109	984	1087
Kerbside recycling collected	213	244	225	213	224	219	231	205	232
Materials recovered	163	186	172	164	164	170	179	164	176
Residual waste to landfill	49	58	53	49	60	49	52	41	56
Bulk bins delivered - blue	1011	931	936	1025	984	956	1052	905	905
Material collected	242	218	217	228	190	174	212	192	189
Residual waste to landfill	146	131	129	139	131	119	145	132	130
Material recovered	96	87	88	89	58	56	66	60	58
Bulk bins delivered - green	332	410	325	321	426	329	300	308	386
Material recovered	67	83	75	66	75	59	54	51	70
Total material to landfill	1284	1422	1383	1331	1290	1284	1306	1157	1274

Bulk waste recovery 2022/2023

Item (tonnes)	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Mixed metal ferrous	14.98	13.55	38.98	31.50	12.53	12.37	15.45	13.91	13.93
Untreated timber	27.48	24.86	13.65	12.40	7.19	7.04	8.78	7.91	7.63
Paper and cardboard	3.52	3.18	6.91	5.06	5.55	5.42	6.50	6.05	5.56
Fines (sand / rubble)	50.09	45.31	28.02	40.11	32.99	30.96	35.49	32.14	31.15
Total recovered	96.07	86.90	87.56	89.06	58.27	55.79	66.21	60.01	58.27
Recovery rate (%)	40	40	40	39	31	32	31	31	31

Kerbside recycling recovery 2022/2023

Item (tonnes)	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Aluminium cans	0.90	1.14	1.19	0.77	1.14	1.38	1.04	1.26	1.21
Mixed paper	37.65	56.46	47.16	38.44	39.54	34.33	35.33	26.96	33.60
Newsprint	16.75	19.22	17.62	18.81	16.72	21.24	18.75	23.89	18.85
Corrugated cardboard	47.92	39.27	41.24	37.75	40.48	46.13	54.61	41.62	47.27
Steel	6.26	7.45	6.82	6.60	4.45	4.59	5.09	4.40	6.58
Glass	45.10	50.40	47.34	51.76	51.48	50.43	52.76	52.29	52.82
Mixed plastics	1.77	2.58	3.01	2.68	3.04	4.28	3.95	6.04	6.99
Plastic - PET	3.36	4.29	3.58	3.02	2.82	4.37	3.79	4.75	5.34
Plastic - HDPE	3.64	4.92	4.39	3.94	3.91	3.49	3.40	2.97	3.53
Total recovered	163.35	185.73	172.34	163.76	163.58	170.24	178.72	164.21	176.20
Recovery rate (%)	77	76	77	77	73	78	77	80	76

Previous data

Waste Data 2020-2021
Waste Data 2021-2022