The Council provided free green bin will replace your old green bin. Properties are allowed to place one green bin out for collection. If you would like to have more than one green bin collected, (your new bin as well as your old bin), you must pay for an additional bin collection.

To do this, please complete an additional bin online form once you have received your bin.

This will automatically renew each financial year. To cancel just contact East Waste before 30 June by completing the cancellation of additional bins form.

East Waste will send you an invoice for the additional bin, and a permit sticker to attach to the bin so that it can be properly identified and emptied.

Find out more about our additional bin service, costs and terms and conditions.

Sorry we missed you. Come and visit us with proof of residence and you can collect your free kitchen caddy and roll of 75 compostable bags at:

• City of Mitcham Civic Centre, 131 Belair Road, Torrens Park
• Mitcham Memorial Library, 154 Belair Road, Hawthorn
• Blackwood Library, 2 Young Street, Blackwood

If you live in St Marys, Clapham, Panorama, Pasadena and Eden Hills find out why you didn't get another free kitchen caddy below.

In 2018, the City of Mitcham undertook a free kitchen caddy and compostable bags trial with households in St Marys, Clapham, Panorama, Pasadena and Eden Hills. This trial was supported by a Green Industries SA grant to help residents reduce the amount of food waste going to landfill. The trial has now finished and results will be published on our website soon. Thanks to the efforts of households in the trial area, Council has been able to build on the successful trial and undertake this new initiative.

Council didn't deliver new kitchen caddies or compostable bags to properties in the kitchen caddy trial area. This helped us to avoid sending kitchen caddies to properties that already received one in the trial.

If you live in the trial area and would like a kitchen caddy or roll of bags, you can collect one now for free from these locations with proof of residence:

• City of Mitcham Civic Centre, 131 Belair Road, Torrens Park.
• Mitcham Memorial Library, 154 Belair Road, Hawthorn.
• Blackwood Library, 2 Young Street, Blackwood.

Yes, our kitchen caddies are made from 100% recycled plastic taken from the yellow recycling bin.

Our green bins are made from about 36% recycled plastic recovered from old bins. The amount of recycled plastic we can use depends on how much is available, as it’s in high demand. We asked our supplier to include as much recycled material as possible.

When we put materials in the recycling bin, that’s only the first step of the recycling process. Making sure this material gets properly recycled into new products completes the loop and helps us move towards a circular economy.

The new kitchen caddies feature a ventilated design, which some of our older kitchen caddies in previous years didn’t have. This helps with reducing moisture and odour build up, making them easier to use than previous kitchen caddy designs.

If you don’t want a kitchen caddy, please don’t throw it away. Here’s a couple of options:

• Give it to a friend or family member or you can return it for free at the following locations:
  • City of Mitcham Civic Centre, 131 Belair Road, Torrens Park.
  • Mitcham Memorial Library, 154 Belair Road, Hawthorn.
  • Blackwood Library, 2 Young Street, Blackwood.

We will reuse returned caddies by giving them to new residents or as replacements for lost or broken caddies.

Here’s a couple of options for your old kitchen caddy:

• Find another use for it, they make good clothes peg holders and baskets for use around the garden.
• Give it to a friend or family member in another Council area.
• Place it your yellow recycling bin (please make sure it’s clean first).

You can help keep food waste out of landfill by using your kitchen caddy.

When food and garden waste go to landfill they produce methane, a harmful greenhouse gas.

You can help the environment by using your green bin and kitchen caddy. When you place your food scraps, garden waste and other compostable items in your green bin they are collected and turned into nutrient-rich compost.

When you put your food scraps and other compostable items in the green bin, this material is sent to a composting facility to be turned into nutrient-rich compost. Compost has a range of benefits, including:

• Creating healthy gardens by adding valuable nutrients, enhancing the water-holding capacity of soil and reducing water loss through evaporation
• Reducing plant stress during summer
• Reducing soil erosion
• Reducing the amount of organic waste going to landfill and the related greenhouse gases

You can pick up one free roll of 75 compostable bags anytime between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. Just bring in your proof of residence.

We also sell compostable bags and kitchen caddies at a discounted price.

Kitchen caddies and compostable bags are available from:

• City of Mitcham Civic Centre, 131 Belair Road, Torrens Park
• Mitcham Memorial Library, 154 Belair Road, Hawthorn
• Blackwood Library, 2 Young Street, Blackwood

Compostable bags can also be purchased from most major supermarkets, hardware stores and eco stores. Foodland Pasadena and all Woolworths stores now provide compostable produce bags in the fruit and vegetable section. These are perfect to use in your kitchen caddy.

You should only use certified compostable bags to recycle your food waste. Compostable bags are made of 100% compostable materials that decompose during the composting process, while biodegradable bags break down, but only into smaller pieces of plastic. Look for the seedling logo and AS 4736.

The new free green bin with the City of Mitcham logo on the front remain the property of Council, just like your blue landfill and yellow recycling bins.

The kitchen caddy is yours to keep.