From Knox Council

New state government rules mean everyone in Victoria has to have the same colour bin lids. These changes are designed to support statewide waste education initiatives and help us all to put the right things in the right bin.

From Monday 28 April, the lid on your rubbish bin will be changing from yellow to red.

We’re asking residents to leave their rubbish bin out until 6pm on collection day, even if it has been emptied earlier in the day, and we’ll change the bin lid over. Residents need to do this every fortnight until they get a new red lid.

There will be no change to your collection.

We need to change the lids on 60,000 bins so it will take us some months to get to everyone. The old bin lids will be recycled into new bin lids.

We will send you more information in the mail as the time approaches, so please look out for that or visit our website.