In arrangement with East Waste, Council offers every household in City of Prospect's council area three opportunities each financial year to have hard waste collected and disposed of. 

To arrange a hard waste collection, simply phone East Waste on 8347 5111 or book online here.

Mattress and ensemble base collections need to be booked separately to other hard rubbish items.  Book a mattress or ensemble collection.

You should allow up to three or four weeks in advance for your hard waste collection booking.

Once you have lodged your collection request you will be provided with a booking confirmation within 24 hours (if you don’t receive your booking confirmation within 24 hours, please phone 8347 5111).

You will need to place your items neatly on the kerbside no earlier than 24 hours before, and no later than 6am on booked collection date. You are entitled to put out two cubic metres of hard waste for your booked collection (2m long X 1m wide X 1m high), which is the equivalent of a standard trailer load.

This is a service offered to domestic households only.

Items you can put out for hard waste collection include:

• Air conditioners (please ensure that they are degassed by a licenced professional before placing them on the kerbside)
• Bikes and toys
• Blinds and window coverings
• Car seats (please cut straps so that old and damaged seats that are unsafe are not picked up and re-used) OR recycle them at RAA Child Safety Centre, 101 Richmond Road Mile End.
• Dismantled clothes lines
• Furniture
• Hot water services
• Lawn mowers
• Mattresses and ensembles (must be booked as a separate booking, so they can be recycled)
• Rainwater tanks
• Refrigerators and freezers (please ensure that they are degassed by a licenced professional and remove doors for safety)
• Sheets of iron and guttering (up to 2 metre lengths)
• Small items of scrap metal
• Timber off cuts (up to 2 metre lengths) *ensure that any nails are removed or bent over
• Washing machines and driers
• Wooden pallets – non-refundable/returnable

Items you can’t put out for hard waste collection include:

• Ammunition, explosives, or flares (contact SA Police on 131 444)
• Batteries (most household batteries can be recycled at our community library: Payinthi or click here for more options).
• Bean Bags: place both bag and polystyrene balls (contained in a bag to prevent spillage), in your red landfill bin.
• Business or industrial waste (take to your local waste & recycling depot or licenced transfer station or arrange a business/industrial waste collection service)
• Bricks, rocks, dirt, pavers, PVC pipe, concrete and building materials (click here for options)
• Car tyres (click here for options)
• Car parts (e.g., gear boxes engine blocks and panels can be recycled through a car dismantler or scrap metal business)
• Carpet, floor coverings or underlay (book a collection with Recycle360, fees apply ph. 8280 8700)
• Co-mingled recycling (place in your yellow lidded recycling bin)
• Fire extinguishers (click here for options)
• Food organics and garden organics (place in your green organic and garden organic bin)
• Gas bottles (click here for options)
• Glass items or items containing glass (take to your local waste & recycling depot or licenced transfer station)
• Hazardous materials (e.g., asbestos, chemicals, non-household batteries, liquids, motor oils and paints)
• Items too heavy for two people to lift
• Material with protruding nails and screws (please remove or bend over)
• Tree and shrub prunings. (click here for alternative options and garden organics drop off locations)

For information on how to dispose of items not accepted through hard waste collections, please visit our Hazardous Waste page, phone East Waste on 8347 5111, or visit www.whichbin.sa.gov.au

Other options for getting rid of those unwanted items

City of Prospect residents can now drop off hard-to-recycle items including globes, batteries, eyeglasses, and fluorescent tubes at our community library. Just ask our friendly staff to direct you to the relevant receptacle.

Which Bin has an A-Z directory of common household items that assists you in knowing what item goes in ‘Which Bin’ and how to divert resources from landfill, transforming them into reusable and recyclable materials

If your items are in reasonable condition, you could also consider;

• A Garage Sale
• Online selling sites such as eBay, Facebook Marketplace, or Gumtree
• Donating them to a charity shop
• Buy Nothing Project
• Street Bounty

From an environmental perspective, recycling your second-hand goods extends the life of the items, and avoids the need for more resources to go into the manufacture of a new product.

You could drop it off at your local op shop - op shops receive your unwanted goods and sell them cheaply to support charities focused at helping our local community. They are generally staffed by volunteers and always appreciate contributions. You might even find a bargain for yourself while you're there!

Local charity shops within our area are:

• St Vincent de Paul Family Centre - 92a Prospect Road, Prospect
• Savers - Shop 4/252 Churchill Road, Prospect
• RSPCA Sefton Park Op Shop - Shop 2 Regency Plaza, 269 Main North Road, Sefton Park

Disposal of cardboard waste that doesn't fit in your recycling bin can be taken to:

• Opal Recycling, - Wingfield Waste Management Centre, Hanson Road

Why can’t tree branches and prunings be collected through the Hard Waste collection service?

When collected through the hard waste collection, garden waste material is not able to be separated and transported to a composting facility. This means that these compostable resources are lost to landfill. Most hard waste items are used for alternative fuel, however green garden waste it not suitable for this process due to the moisture content.

Options for garden waste disposal:

1. Chop up your tree branches and prunings into small pieces (no larger than 15cm wide x 60cm long) and place them in your FOGO (green organic and garden organics bin).
2. Lease an additional FOGO (green organic and garden organics bin) from Council, click here to access the additional bin application form (fees apply).
3. Use a mulcher to mulch your garden materials then use in your garden.
4. Take the material to Adelaide City Council’s Green Waste and Mulch Depot

The following locations also accept excess garden materials (fees may apply, please contact, and check that locations are open):

• Adelaide Waste and Recycling Centre
• Beverley Recycling and Waste Centre
• Lynton Green Organics Drop-off Facility
• Metro Waste
• NAWMA Edinburgh North Resource Recovery Centre
• NAWMA Pooraka Resource Recovery Centre
• Wingfield Waste and Recycling Centre

Waste disposal and recycling is an increasingly important part of our community, and City of Prospect is proud to have safe, effective, and environmentally conscious methods of managing these responsibilities. If you would like any information on anything related to how we do this, please phone East Waste on 8347 5111 or visit www.eastwaste.com.au.