Your questions answered

  • Every Tuesday Morning your landfill bin ( the small one ) will be emptied.

    Each alternative Tuesday either recylables or green waste will be emptied.

    Particularly on the unmade road sections of Shoreham, residents place their bins on one side of the street to make collection easier for the Big collection trucks. Just have a look to see what your neighbours are doing .

  • AUSTRALIA POST does not deliver mail to individual properties in Shoreham dur to our many unmade roads. Instead you need to register at the Post Office located within the General Store on Byrnes road. Pay a small annual rental fee for a post office box and a security key will be provided . All deliveries are managed this way.

    The P.O is located within the General Store where you can meet friends and family for refreshments, take away , gifts, and daily necessities

Reduce, reuse recycle

Part of a mobile recycling station with various compartments labeled for electronics, clothing, and shoes. The design features a cartoon octopus mascot and colorful illustrations of recycled items. The text emphasizes recycling clothes, bags, or shoes.

There are many options for waste recycling available in our area.

Here are some of them! 

Mobile Recycling Trailer (MPSC)
What: Clothing, shoes, bed linen, towels, small electronic items
Where:
In Shoreham- At or near Byrnes Road, Shoreham from 6-26 February, 2026
In Hastings - At St Mary’s Primary, Marine Parade from 5-19 Dec 2025

Container Deposit Scheme exchange with a 10c refund on deposited bottles and cans
What: Bottles cans and cartons for soft drink and sports drink, fruit and veg juice, beer, flavoured milk, coffee cans (not wine bottles)
Look for the 10c mark on the container label.
Where: Rosebud, Dromana, Mornington, Hastings and soon in Somers

TerraCycle Recycling Depots
What: Pens, dental packaging, pharmaceutical blister packs, beauty packaging
Where: Somers General Store

Soft plastics  
What: Plastic bags, pasta and rice bags, biscuit wrappers, veggie produce bags and frozen food bags, cling wrap
Where: Woolworths Mornington (2 locations), Hastings, Rosebud (2 locations), Rye, Somerville

Ecobatt recycling units
What: Batteries, mobile phones
Where: Ritchies IGA Balnarring

Collection bins at local Op Shops
What: Items in good condition except electrical items
Where: Balnarring, Red Hill, Flinders

Recovery Stations
What: Electronic items, X rays, cameras, phones, CDs, computers (don’t forget to delete personal data)
Where: Hastings, Mornington, Rosebud Libraries, Sorrento Community Centre, Somerville Rec Centre