Are you confident about what goes in each of your household bins? Or do you outsource the dirtier decisions to your partner or flat mate? And if you don’t know, where do you go to find out?

Most of us are autopilot binners, with ingrained habits. But that knowledge is often out of date, or our bin behaviour is based on bin services provided by other Council areas. Many of us also wish cycle - putting an item in a blue or yellow bin in the hope it can be recycled.

As a community, each household puts on average 7.1 kilograms of waste into our red bins each week. But over 10 percent of this could in fact be recycled in the yellow or blue bin. Equally, many items that end up in our yellow and blue recycling bins, cannot be recycled.

That's why we’re on a mission to help you take the guess work out of recycling and rubbish.

Bin it right provides simple tips and tricks to make using household bins easier than ever. It’s about increasing our recycling and reducing the amount of waste that goes to landfill.

We’ve set ourselves an ambitious target to achieve a 70% resource recovery rate from household waste by 2030 of which recycling plays a key part. And we need your help!

Every little bit you do right on bin night each week makes a huge difference in keeping the Beaches such a beautiful place to live, work and play in.

Learn more about how to refresh your bin habits on our website, and keep an eye out on our social channels for easy tips to be a better binner.

Plus win a deluxe sorting bin. Enter our Bin it Right competition for your chance to win a bathroom sorting bin to make recycling from your bathroom easier than ever.