Chipping for Mulch - Galston

Next date: Sunday, 16 August 2026 | 07:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Bring your garden prunings and branches that don’t fit in your green bin and have them chipped into mulch.

You can also take home free mulch, even if you haven’t brought any branches to be chipped. Please bring a shovel and bags/containers to load your car with free mulch or Council can help load your ute/trailer with our Kanga loader.

The following conditions apply

• ✅ Maximum volume of 4 cubic metres per vehicle
• ✅ Freshly cut branches up to a maximum diameter of 350 mm
• ✅ Present prunings and branches with thickest end to rear of vehicle or trailer to assist with unloading and feeding into chipper
• ❌ No bagged green waste, dry timber, noxious and other weeds, lawn clippings or small twigs and sticks
• ❌ No metals (nails, bolts etc.)
• ❌ No root balls and soil, tree stumps, bamboo, palm trees, tree ferns or coral trees
• ❌ No mixed loads (e.g. palms, pine and privet) in same load, mixed loads will be turned away.

Note: Gates open 7.30am and close 12.30pm.

Residents are welcome to collect free mulch for their own use (if available). Please bring own bags/containers and a bucket or garden fork to load mulch.

For further information call the Waste Hotline 13 70 30.

When

Location

Council Depot, 1 Johnson Road, Galston, 2159, View Map