Waste & recycling centres
Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) impacts
Due to the Queensland Government's advanced easing of Stage 2 restrictions, from 1 June City of Gold Coast has removed the 'odds and evens' arrangements at Waste and Recycling Centres (WRCs).
All WRCs will continue to have limited capacity to ensure safe social distancing measures. Every second bay will remain closed. Visitors may experience delays.
- Residential customers are strongly advised to restrict their visits to WRCs for essential waste services only. This includes:
- disposal of hazardous waste that may be no longer safe to store at home, e.g. car tyres, car batteries, paint, pool chemicals, bleach, gas bottles and herbicides
- disposal of waste that could create a health concern, e.g. putrescible household waste.
- To minimise delays, residential green waste will ONLY be accepted at WRCs with 'Green waste drop and go' which includes Coomera, Molendinar, Merrimac and Reedy Creek.
- e-waste recycling is now being accepted
- Reedy Creek Recycle Market has now reopened. The Endeavour Shop at Southport has reopened Wednesday to Friday only at this stage.
We appreciate your patience and cooperation. For the latest update on the City's response and changes to services, visit cityofgoldcoast.com.au/covid19
View a map of our waste and recycling centres below. The map includes links to each location and information about opening hours and what can be recycled. Click on a map pin below to view details about the centre.
Public holiday operating hours
Our residential centres are open every day except for Christmas Day and Good Friday. Reedy Creek Commercial Landfill is closed on all public holidays. Please check your centre's page for details of opening hours.
Our waste management facilities experience peak demand between 10am and 2pm. Avoid delays by timing your visit outside these times.
Safety and security
To improve the safety of the community and City staff, our waste and recycling centres use surveillance equipment including body cameras.
Behaviour of an aggressive or abusive nature is not accepted at any centre.
Accepted waste
All community waste and recycling centres accept the following household waste and recyclables:
- cardboard
- comingled recyclables (yellow top bins) – aluminium and steel cans, paper, plastic and glass bottles
- concrete (small domestic loads only)
- domestic green waste
- gas bottles - empty - up to nine (9) kilograms
- general waste (including putrescible or rotting material)
- mattresses
- scrap metal
- soil and clean fill (road base and clay base only)
- small domestic loads only.
* Household hazardous waste such as bleach, herbicides and pool chlorine can be disposed of at Helensvale and Merrimac waste and recycling centres. Up to 20 litres of paint can be disposed of at either of these centres, or Reedy Creek community waste and recycling centre.
City residents are not charged for domestic household waste within set load limits, however fees apply for commercial waste and other chargeable waste. Commercial waste is any waste generated from a business or commercial activity and is subject to landfill disposal fees and charges. Commercial waste is accepted at the waste and recycling centres at Stapylton (all), Reedy Creek (all) and Molendinar (commercial green waste only).
Make recycling easy when you visit our waste and recycling centres by sorting your load.
- Coomera Green Waste Centre
Residents only
196 Old Pacific Highway, Pimpama
More information - Currigee Waste and Recycling Centre
Residents only
South Stradbroke Island
More information - Currumbin Valley Waste and Recycling Centre
Residents only
1174 Currumbin Creek Road, Currumbin Valley
(nearest intersection Bains Road)
More information - Helensvale Waste and Recycling Centre
Residents only
70 Helensvale Road
More information - Jacobs Well Waste and Recycling Centre
Residents only
250 Skopps Road, Jacobs Well (off Behms Road)
More information - Merrimac Waste and Recycling Centre
Residents only
Boowaggan Road, Merrimac
More information - Molendinar Waste and Recycling Centre
Resident and green waste commercial customers
Corner Jacobs Road and Herbertson Drive, Molendinar
More information - Mudgeeraba Waste and Recycling Centre
Residents only
Mudgeeraba Road, Mudgeeraba
More information - Numinbah Valley Waste and Recycling Centre
Residents only
2069 Nerang-Murwillumbah Road, Numinbah Valley
More information - Reedy Creek Waste and Recycling Centre
Resident and commercial customers
Hutchinson Street, Burleigh Heads
More information - Reedy Creek Commercial Landfill
Commercial customers only
82 Hutchinson Street, Burleigh Heads
More information - Springbrook Waste and Recycling Centre
Residents only
13-14 Carricks Road, Springbrook
More information - Stapylton Recycling Centre and Landfill
Resident and commercial customers
Rossmanns Road, Stapylton
More information - Tipplers Waste and Recycling Centre
Resident and commercial customers
South Stradbroke Island
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