Bayswater bin day

Bayswater is collected by City of Knox. Check your next collection date and which bins go out.

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Check your Bayswater bin day

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Which council collects Bayswater?

Bayswater is in City of Knox, Victoria. That is the council that decides your collection day, supplies your bins and publishes the schedule — so it is the council name to look for on any official bin information.

This trips people up more than it should. Council boundaries rarely match the suburb names people actually use, and a suburb can sit on the edge of one council while the shops you drive to are in the next one. If you have just moved to Bayswater, or you are checking on behalf of a rental, City of Knox is who you are dealing with. Our full City of Knox bin day guide has the detail , and City of Knox’s own website is the source of record .

Bayswater bin colours and collection frequency

City of Knox issues 3 bins to households in Bayswater:

Red bin: General waste. Collected fortnightly.
Blue bin: Recycling (transitioning to yellow lid by 2027). Collected fortnightly (alternates with red).
Lime green bin: Food and garden organics (FOGO). Collected weekly.

Knox moved general waste to fortnightly in 2023 when FOGO launched. The recycling bin currently has a blue lid (changing to yellow by 2026/27). Lime green FOGO is weekly. Knox diverts over 74% of kerbside waste from landfill.

Why your street may differ from the rest of Bayswater

Knowing the council is only half of it. City of Knox divides its area into collection zones so the trucks can work through it across the week, and those zone lines do not follow suburb boundaries. A single suburb the size of Bayswater is often split across two or more collection days, which is why a neighbour a few streets away can be a reliable-sounding but wrong source.

The other half is which week you are in. General waste here is fortnightly , while recycling is fortnightly (alternates with red) , and food and garden organics (fogo) is weekly. Anything on a fortnightly cycle means counting weeks, and public holidays shift the count. The checker above returns the actual next date for each bin, so there is nothing to count.

Bayswater bin day: common questions

What council covers Bayswater?

Bayswater is collected by City of Knox, in Victoria. That is the council that sets your collection day, provides your bins and publishes the schedule.

When is bin day in Bayswater?

Collection day in Bayswater depends on your street. City of Knox splits its area into collection zones so the trucks can cover the whole council across the week, which means different parts of Bayswater can be collected on different days. Enter your postcode in the checker on this page to get the next collection date for your own address.

How often is general waste collected in Bayswater?

City of Knox collects the red bin for general waste fortnightly in Bayswater.

Which bin is recycling in Bayswater?

In Bayswater the blue bin takes mixed recycling — paper, cardboard, glass, plastic and metal containers. It is fortnightly (alternates with red).

Does Bayswater have a green or FOGO bin?

Yes. City of Knox provides a lime green bin for food and garden organics (fogo) in Bayswater, weekly.

What if I've just moved to Bayswater?

The colour scheme you learned at your old address may not apply here. Check the City of Knox colours below, then run your new address through the checker to get your collection day — asking a neighbour is unreliable, because they may be in a different collection zone.

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