Skip Bins and Skip hire should be easily found for Burwood although not from businesses based in Burwood itself. The inner city suburb is relatively small being only 7 square kilometers in area and only having a population of 36,809 in the 2016 census. Burwood itself is a combination of commercial (shopping and offices) and residential areas with little to no industry or industrial areas as such. The small area of the council and shortage of industrial space is why the are not native skip bin businesses located actually in Burwood. Skip Bins service are delivered from out side the council area by businesses in adjacent council areas and even further away where that are more more tipping facilities for skip bin businesses.
As the Burwood Council only offer 2 bulk clean up services a year this means there is reasonable demand for skip bin services in the area. One of the clean ups is schedule to occur following a Secondhand Saturday Saturday where residents are encouraged to get rid of belonging they no longer need or use in line with the ethos of reuse and recycle. The 2nd Clean up is an on call service that can be arranged at any time of year. With both collections residents can put out up to 1.5 cubic meters of material which is about the same quantity that could be squeezed into a box trailer. The materials that can be put out for the Clean ups is limited and excludes building and renovation waste, car parts, e-waste, green waste or food and household waste.
The low level of council clean up services is beneficial for skip bin businesses who can accommodated rubbish removal as many times a year as you need and are happy to take away building and renovation waste etc.
If yous are unable to get a skip bin placed on your property then yout owner occupier of a property is required by council to us a licenced skip bin business. Individual permits are not required to place skip bins on council property (the road for instance) in Burwood, however the Skip Bin Provider must be registered with Burwood council to do this. Skips cannot be placed on footpaths or areas where pedestrian or vehicular activity will be obstructed. Bins Skips Waste and Recycling has partner business that are registered to place bins on Burwood Council Property. The map below shows where skip bins can be placed on the road in Burwood.