Free disposal of bushfire and storm waste

• Alpine Shire Council
• Ararat Rural City Council
• Ballarat City Council
• Bass Coast Shire Council
• Baw Baw Shire Council
• Bayside City Council
• Buloke Shire Council
• Campaspe Shire Council
• Cardinia Shire Council
• Casey City Council
• Central Goldfields Shire Council
• East Gippsland Shire Council
• Frankston City Council
• Glen Eira City Council
• Golden Plains Shire Council
• Greater Bendigo City Council
• Greater Dandenong City Council
• Greater Geelong City Council
• Horsham Rural City Council
• Kingston City Council
• Knox City Council
• Latrobe City Council
• Macedon Ranges Shire Council
• Mansfield Shire Council
• Maroondah City Council
• Melton City Council
• Mitchell Shire Council
• Monash City Council
• Mornington Peninsula Shire Council
• Mount Alexander Shire Council
• Murrindindi Shire Council
• Northern Grampians Shire Council
• Pyrenees Shire
• South Gippsland Shire Council
• Strathbogie Shire Council
• Towong Shire Council
• Wellington Shire Council
• Yarra Ranges Council

To find your closest transfer station or landfill visit: Victoria's waste and resource recovery infrastructure map. 

Eligible landfills and transfer stations

Any waste facility can receive disaster waste and waive the gate fee, by ensuring the procedures to check that the waste is from an impacted LGA are followed and required invoicing information is provided. Facilities must contact DEECA to set up a purchase order to ensure that Gate Fee Rebates can be processed.

Transfer stations bordering impacted LGAs may be considered for the gate fee waiver on a case-by-case basis.

Please contact waste.emergency@delwp.vic.gov.au to discuss this further.

Information required to claim the gate fee rebate

To claim the gate fee rebate waste facility operators will need to:

• Confirm that the waste was from an impacted LGA and resulted from the bushfire, storm and energy emergency events that commenced on 13 February 2024 or the Bayindeen-Rocky Road bushfire on 22 February 2024.
• Provide an invoice stating that the waste is disaster waste, waste stream type (i.e. organics, landfill), tonnage, and gate fee rate per tonne along with listing the DEECA purchase order number.

If you don’t have a DEECA purchase order number please contact us at waste.emergency@delwp.vic.gov.au.

How to confirm where the waste came from

To claim the gate fee rebate, waste facility operators should:

• Collect evidence that the waste originated from an approved local government area.
  • For individuals, this may be the requirement to show proof of residence in an impacted LGA, such as a driver’s license or rates notice. This information does not need to be recorded.
  • For businesses or other waste producers, facilities may request a declaration that the waste is eligible disaster waste and has come from an approved location.
• Visually inspect the waste to ensure it is disaster waste.
• Include a declaration on invoices to enable claiming of the gate fee rebate, by stating ‘I declare the waste associated with this gate fee rebate claim is disaster waste from an LGA affected by the emergency that commenced on 13 February 2024 or the Bayindeen-Rocky Road bushfire on 22 February 2024.’
• It is recommended that facilities document their evidence-collection procedure.

Claiming the gate fee rebate for council-owned waste facilities

If a waste facility is owned by the council either the council or the waste facility operator can apply for the gate fee rebate - as long as only one application is made per facility.

Waste collected on behalf of the community

Disaster waste collected by councils or Emergency Recovery Victoria on behalf of the community is eligible for the gate fee rebate.

Transfer stations eligible to waive gate fees for disaster waste

Any waste facility can receive disaster waste and waive the gate fee, by ensuring the procedures to check that the waste is from an impacted LGA are followed and required invoicing information is provided. Facilities must contact DEECA to set up a purchase order to ensure that Gate Fee Rebates can be processed.

Refunds if a community member has already paid to dispose of disaster waste

Requests for refunds will be examined on a case-by-case basis. Please send queries about refunds to waste.emergency@delwp.vic.gov.au.

Information about the waste levy waiver

EPA Victoria is managing the waste levy waiver and will be able to provide information. For more information visit the EPA website - https://www.epa.vic.gov.au/for-community/how-to/disaster-waste-levy-waiver.

Information about the gate fee rebate

DEECA is coordinating the gate fee rebate. For more information about claiming the gate fee rebate please contact us via waste.emergency@delwp.vic.gov.au

Eligible waste

To be eligible for both the waste levy waiver and the gate fee rebate, the waste must come from one of the disaster-impacted LGAs and must be disaster waste from the current emergency.