About Us

Coffs Coast Waste Services was launched in late 2005. It is a partnership between Coffs Harbour City Council, Bellingen Shire Council, Nambucca Shire Council and Handybin Waste Services (Handybin).

Under the name Coffs Coast Waste Services (CCWS), Handybin provides a three-bin kerbside waste collection service for organics, recyclables and mixed waste for homes across the region covered by the three councils. The company also provides kitchen tidy bins for organic waste.

CCWS operates the Coffs Coast Resource Recovery Facility, which includes the Materials Recovery Facility and the Biomass Facility, on Englands Road, Coffs Harbour South.

With both plants in full operation, the amount of waste going to landfill will be progressively reduced from 80 percent to about 13 percent in 2007.

Handybin are responsible for the processing and marketing of recyclables, which will also be collected from transfer stations in Bellingen and Nambucca, as well as the disposal of residue materials.

The company also operates the CCWS Hotline (call centre) to deal with customer enquiries and provides an educational facility at the site (read about possibilities for visits).

This innovative project will bring major environmental benefits to the region, diverting large amounts of waste away from landfill.

Stage One - 2005/2006
In late 2005, nearly 100,000 new wheelie bins were delivered to 45,000 households across the region.

A state-of-the-art Materials Recovery Facility was constructed to sort and recover valuable recyclable materials from new yellow-lidded recycling bins.

Coffs Harbour residents were provided with yellow-lidded recycling bins, green-lidded greenwaste bins, and red-lidded bins for other waste. Residents of the Nambucca and Bellingen Shires were provided with yellow-lidded recycling bins and red-lidded bins. Red-lidded bins were emptied weekly and the others fortnightly.

Stage Two - 2007
Stage Two began on 5 March 2007. During February and early March, greenwaste bins were rovided to residents of Bellingen and Nambucca Shires, and kitchen organics bins were delivered to all residents in the three CCWS local government areas.

The changes meant that kitchen food scraps should now be placed in the green-lidded bin along with garden wastes. The new Biomass Facility, which became operational in March, will recover and process this waste to produce compost.

Residents of all three local government areas have also received an information pack with their kitchen organics bins, consisting of a booklet showing what can and cannot be placed in the bins, and a calendar detailing collection days and bin collection frequency.

From 5 March on, the green-lidded bins are collected weekly, while the yellow-lidded and red-lidded bins are collected fortnightly, on alternating weeks.