Central Coast RemovalistsLabel 2 of 5: the tip run
Bulky waste before a Central Coast move
Most Central Coast households can book up to six bulk kerbside collections a year, of general or green waste, each of two cubic metres, which Council puts at roughly a box trailer load. For the rest of a clear-out, Council runs two waste management facilities, at Buttonderry and Woy Woy, and among them only the Community Recycling Centre at Buttonderry takes paint.
General information from Central Coast Council’s waste pages, read on 9 October 2026. Council’s own guidelines list every item its kerbside collection accepts and refuses.
Six bookings, two cubic metres
- 6bookings a year, general or green waste, for most households
- 2 m³per booking, roughly a box trailer load
- 2 daysof notice, counted in full business days, for an extra collection once a property’s bookings are used
Those are Council’s numbers as its page gave them on 9 October 2026. Bookings are made through Council, and the full list of what the kerbside collection accepts and refuses is in its collection guidelines, linked from the same page.
For a prompt pick-up
Council lists five things that help a prompt pick-up:
- Book the collection before putting anything out.
- Put your items at the kerb the night before collection day.
- Stack accepted items neatly on the footpath, with nothing longer than 1.8 metres.
- Keep stumps and logs to 30 cm in diameter or less.
- Make separate piles for bulk household waste and bulk vegetation.
If a property has already used all its collections, Council can add one more on any working day, given two full business days’ notice. Council also warns that not following its kerbside guidelines can lead to a clean-up order and fines.
Taking it yourself: Buttonderry and Woy Woy
| Facility | Address |
|---|---|
| Buttonderry Waste Management Facility, home of the Community Recycling Centre | 850 Hue Hue Road, Jilliby NSW 2259 |
| Woy Woy Waste Management Facility | Nagari Road, Woy Woy NSW 2256 |
Council gives the same opening hours for both facilities:
- Monday to Friday
- 7am to 4pm, except public holidays
- Saturday and public holidays
- 8am to 4pm
- Sunday
- 8am to 2pm
- Closed
- Good Friday, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day
Council takes some recyclables free of charge at both facilities, among them scrap metal and whitegoods, household quantities of cardboard up to 200 kg, and e-waste, meaning electrical products with a cord that hold no liquid, for residential customers only. Mixed waste, garden organics, and building and demolition waste are among the things it accepts for a fee. Council’s page lists hazardous or liquid waste (it names chemicals, poisons and paints), clinical waste, and explosives, fireworks and flares as the waste its facilities do not accept, and makes one exception: household quantities of paint, which the Community Recycling Centre at Buttonderry takes. That centre has its own list of problem wastes, below.
One local note: Council’s Kincumber facility closed to the public in 2020.
Hazardous waste and the Buttonderry Community Recycling Centre
The Community Recycling Centre sits inside the Buttonderry Waste Management Facility and is built for residential customers only. It takes household quantities only, which Council puts, as a guide, at a container of no more than 20 litres or 20 kilograms per type of waste. The list of problem wastes it accepts free sits on the NSW EPA’s Community Recycling Centre website, which Council links from its page.
| Item | Where it goes | Council’s limits |
|---|---|---|
| Paint | The Community Recycling Centre at Buttonderry, free, or a Household Chemical CleanOut event. Woy Woy does not take it. | Household quantities only |
| Motor oil | Free at both Buttonderry and Woy Woy | Up to 20 litres |
| Fluorescent lights | Free at both Buttonderry and Woy Woy | Up to 12; tubes and globes must be clean and unbroken |
| Batteries | Buttonderry and Woy Woy take them; never the general waste bin | Take them out of battery-operated things before throwing those out |
| Medicines | Back to a local pharmacy | Not the general bin, the sink or the toilet |
Council’s examples of battery-operated things to empty first include toys, laptops, vapes, hand tools and solar-powered devices.
For household chemicals beyond those, Council hosts free Household Chemical CleanOut events with the NSW Environment Protection Authority twice a year, at Kincumber and Long Jetty, with the dates in Council’s event calendar.
The short version
Book the kerbside collection before anything goes out, keep each pile neat and within Council’s sizes, and put it out the night before. Paint goes to Buttonderry’s Community Recycling Centre or a CleanOut event, batteries come out of devices before they are thrown away, and medicines go back to a pharmacy. Once the house is clear, the next labels are the water account, power and gas, and, if a container is coming, the road reserve. A cat or dog has its own label: the NSW Pet Registry.