Keep up the good work
As you are now in the habit of separating your food waste, we encourage you to continue keeping it out of landfill after the pilot finishes, by establishing a home compost system or worm farm.
Kimbriki offer excellent home composting and worm farm workshops at a small cost. On completion of the workshop, Council offers a $90 voucher to residents that can be put towards the purchase of a worm farm or compost bin.
See the dates of the upcoming Kimbriki workshops listed below. They are run at a variety of different locations in our LGA.
Kimbriki Eco Workshop dates
Friday 20 February 2026
Worm Farming 101
Venue: Coastal Environment Centre Narrabeen
Time: 1 - 3pm
Cost: $25
Saturday 14 March 2026
Beginners Composting & Worm Farming
Venue: Fisher Road School, Dee Why
Time: 10am - 1pm
Cost: $35
Wednesday 15 April 2026
Composting with Kids
Venue: Kimbriki Eco House & Garden
Time: 10am - 12noon
Cost: $20
Sunday 3 May 2026
Beginners Composting and Worms
Venue: Seaforth Kitchen Garden
Time: 10am - 1pm
Cost: $35
The food waste collection pilot asks a small number of residents in selected areas of the Northern Beaches to collect and recycle household food waste over a 5 month period.
During the pilot, instead of putting your food waste in the red bin, we’ll ask you to collect it in the kitchen caddy we supply and put it out in your green bin with your garden waste for weekly collection.
We’ll seek your feedback at the start and end of the pilot so we know what is working and what can be improved.
The pilot is funded by the Domestic Waste Charge and there will be no cost to pilot participants.
The NSW Government has legislated that all councils must provide residents with a food waste collection service by 2030 - a big and exciting change for all households.
Such a big change requires considered implementation and that’s why we are taking a staged approach, starting with this pilot program with you and around 1500 of your neighbours.
Your experiences will help Council design a new service for the unique characteristics and needs of the Northern Beaches area.
Plus, on the Northern Beaches almost half of the contents of the red bin is food waste. Recycling food waste not only creates compost for agriculture and other uses but also diverts this waste from landfill which reduces potent emissions and extends the life of landfill sites.
The highlighted areas in the maps below are included in the pilot. Please note that the pilot includes only part of Dee Why and Cromer, as shown in the highlighted area.
Cromer
Dee Why
The pilot starts the week of 27 October 2025 and goes for 5 months, finishing the week of 9 March 2026.
Key Dates
Mid-Feb 2026 – final letter and survey #2.
Wed 11 Mar 2026 – last pilot green bin collection for Cromer.
Fri 13 Mar 2026 - last pilot green bin collection for Dee Why.
Sun 29 Mar 2026 – final survey due.
This is the pilot Phase 1. Phase 2, launching in mid-2026, will run in different suburbs and will test collection using a separate food waste only bin.
Got a question?
How to collect your food waste
Need help?
Contact us
| Name | Customer Service |
|---|---|
| Phone | 1300 434 434 |
Support
If you need assistance providing feedback or would like information supplied in your language or another format, please contact Council via 1300 434 434 or council@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au.
If you would like to speak to someone over the phone in your language, call Translation and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450 for a free interpreting service.
རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར།
གལ་སྲིད་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགོངས་འཆར་འབུལ་བའི་ཆེད་དུ་རོགས་རམ་དགོས་པ་ཡང་ན་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག་གི་ནང་དུ་ཡང་ན་རྣམ་པ་གཞན་ཞིག་གི་ལམ་ནས་གནས་ཚུལ་ཐོབ་འདོད་ཡོད་ན། ལྷན་ཁང་ལ་ཨང་གྲངས་ 1300 434 434 ཡང་ན་གློག་འཕྲིན་ council@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au བརྒྱུད་ནས་འབྲེལ་གནང་རོགས།
གལ་སྲིད་ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་རང་གི་སྐད་ཡིག་གི་ནང་དུ་ཁ་པར་ཐོག་མི་ཞིག་ལ་སྐད་ཆ་བཤད་འདོད་ཡོད་ན། ཡིག་སྒྱུར་དང་སྐད་སྒྱུར་ཞབས་ཞུ་
(Translation and Interpreting Service, TIS) ནས་རིན་པ་སྤྲོད་མི་དགོས་པའི་སྐད་སྒྱུར་ཞབས་ཞུ་ཞིག་ཐོབ་ཆེད་ཨང་གྲངས་ 131 450
支持
如果您在提供反馈时需要帮助，或希望我们以您的语言或其他格式提供信息，请致电1300 434 434 或发送邮件至council@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au，与市政议会取得联系。
如果您想用您的语言与他人进行电话交谈，请拨打口笔译服务处 (Translation and Interpreting Service TIS ) 的热线 131 450，获得免费口译服务。
Apoyo
Si necesita ayuda para hacernos llegar su opinión o desea que le facilitemos la información en su idioma o en otro formato, póngase en contacto con el Concejo al 1300 434 434 o en council@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au
Si desea hablar con alguien por teléfono en su idioma, llame al Servicio de Traducción e Interpretación (Translation and Interpreting Service, TIS) en el 131 450 para recibir un servicio gratuito de interpretación.
समर्थन
तपाईंलाई पृष्ठपोषण प्रदान गर्न सहायता चाहिएमा वा आफ्नो भाषामा वा अर्को ढाँचामा जानकारी प्राप्त गर्न चाहेमा, कृपया काउन्सिललाई 1300 434 434 वा council@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au मा सम्पर्क गर्नुहोस्
तपाईं फोनमा कुनै व्यक्तिसँग आफ्नो भाषामा कुरा गर्न चाहनुहुन्छ भने, निःशुल्क दोभाषे सेवाका लागि अनुवादन तथा दोभाषे सेवा (Translation and Interpreting Service, TIS) लाई 131 450 मा कल गर्नुहोस्।
सहायता
यदि आपको फीडबैक प्रदान करने में सहायता की आवश्यकता है या आप अपनी भाषा या किसी अन्य प्रारूप में जानकारी चाहते हैं, तो कृपया परिषद् से 1300 434 434 या council@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au पर ईमेल के माध्यम से संपर्क करें।
यदि आप अपनी भाषा में किसी से फोन पर बात करना चाहते हैं, तो निःशुल्क दुभाषिया सेवा के लिए अनुवाद और दुभाषिया सेवा (टीआईएस) (Translation and Interpreting Service (TIS)) को 131 450 पर कॉल करें।
الدعم
الدعم
إذا كنت بحاجة إلى مساعدة لتقديم ملاحظات أو كنت ترغب في الحصول على معلومات بلغتك أو بتنسيق آخر، فيُرجى الاتصال بالمجلس على الرقم
1300 434 434 أو عبر البريد الإلكتروني council@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au
وإذا كنت ترغب في التحدث إلى شخص ما عبر الهاتف بلغتك، فاتصل بخدمة الترجمة التحريرية والشفهية (Translation and Interpreting Service
(TIS)) على الرقم 450 131 للحصول على خدمة ترجمة شفهية مجانية. وأخبِر مَن تتصل به بلغتك المختارة وبأنك تريد التحدث إلى أحد مسؤولي مجلس نورثرن
