Your waste will not go to waste

The City is moving to more sustainable waste management solutions. That’s why we’re committed to diverting everything that ends up in your green lid bin away from landfills and transforming it into a valuable source of renewable energy.

In partnership with our Rivers Regional Council members, the City has agreed to provide waste to Australia’s first Waste-to-Energy facility in Kwinana.

Waste-to-Energy facilities thermally treat waste and convert the recovered energy into steam to produce electricity.

When the facility starts operating, it will provide a practical solution to big community challenges:

• Disposing of significant quantities of household rubbish
• Providing additional secure and uninterrupted renewable energy
• Diverting household waste from landfill

Waste-to-Energy will provide the opportunity for the City to divert household rubbish from landfill while complementing existing recycling collections. The implementation to Waste-to-Energy will be a seamless transition for residents. However, now is a good time to remind yourself about what can and can't go in your green lid bin.

The project will deliver sustainable energy to local households and businesses and divert up to 460,000 tonnes of waste per annum from landfill and deliver 38 megawatts of baseload power to the Western Power grid – enough to power more than 50,000 households!

Diverting this waste from landfill will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 400,000 tonnes per year, equivalent to taking 85,000 cars off Perth’s roads.

The facility is an important and significant renewable energy project for WA and Australia. It will be the first thermal utility-scale Waste-to-Energy facility constructed in the nation, redirecting around 25 per cent of Perth’s post-recycling rubbish away from landfill.

The facility is on track to be operational in the last quarter of 2024.

Know your green lid bin

With the transition to Waste-to-Energy, it’s now more important than ever to know what you can and can’t put in your green lid bin.

• HOT ASHES OR COALS
• ELECTRICAL ITEMS
• CAR PARTS & TYRES
• GAS BOTTLES, PRESSURE VESSELS AND AEROSOL CANS
• ALL BUILDING MATERIALS
  • Bricks
  • Sand
  • Concrete
  • Tiles
  • Rocks
  • Asbestos
• HAZARDOUS WASTE
  • Medical waste
  • Radioactive materials
  • Acids
  • Petrol
  • Motor oils
  • Flammables
  • Paints
  • Solvents
  • Chemicals
  • Poisons
  • Flares and all batteries including battery-operated devices (disposable vapes, electric toothbrushes and smoke detectors).