240L, 660L, or 1100L? One bin or three? A practical Perth sizing guide by business type, with the access quirks of Northbridge laneways, strip shops, and Kewdale docks factored in.
Most Perth businesses get their first bin wrong in one of two directions: too small, and the lid will not close by Thursday; or too big, and they pay every week to collect air. This guide is the sizing logic we apply when a Perth business books, written out so you can sanity-check your own setup.
Three sizes of general waste wheelie bin are bookable across Perth metro: 240L, 660L, and 1100L, all on weekly collection. Commingled recycling and greens/garden organics bins are available in the same sizes. Bigger volume does not always mean a bigger bin; sometimes it means more bins on the same route stop.
| Business | Typical setup |
|---|---|
| Small office (under ~15 staff) | 1x 240L |
| Cafe, light food | 1x 660L |
| Restaurant, full kitchen | 1x 660L, second bin if trade is heavy |
| Strip retail | 1x 240L, 660L if deliveries are constant |
| Gym or studio | 1x 240L |
| Workshop or trades yard | 1x 660L |
| Warehouse or distribution | 1100L, or multiple 660L |
Weekly collection is the standard cadence; the quote confirms your schedule. Now the reasoning, because your business is not a table row.
Food waste is dense and wet. A 240L bin full of kitchen waste is heavy, ripe by day five in a Perth summer, and usually overflowing by the weekend. Nearly every food venue does better on a 660L bin, and busy venues on the Northbridge strip or in Fremantle often run a pair of bins split between kitchen and front of house. Note that Perth's organics stream takes greens and garden material rather than food scraps, so the general bin carries the kitchen load; a recycling bin for bottles and cardboard is what frees capacity (how the new Perth streams work).
The seasonal wrinkle: coastal trade doubles in summer. Beachfront venues in Scarborough should size for January, not July. An oversized bin in winter is cheaper than an overflow problem in peak season.
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Get your exact priceOffices generate light, dry waste. A 240L weekly bin covers most suites up to roughly 15 people, and doubling headcount does not double waste. The common office mistake is the opposite of the cafe mistake: paying for a 660L bin that goes out one-third full.
A boutique that unpacks a few deliveries a week lives happily on a 240L bin. A high-turnover store in a centre like Dianella Plaza or on a main-road strip can fill a 660L bin with packaging alone. Flatten everything; unflattened boxes are the fastest way to pay for air. Better still, a commingled recycling bin is now bookable in Perth, so flattened boxes and containers can come out of the general bin altogether; here is why that is worth the effort.
In Welshpool, Kewdale, and the Malaga and Wangara zones, the question is how much weekly capacity, not which single bin. Packaging offcuts, consumables, and crib-room waste add up fast on a working site. A 1100L bin suits sites with forklift-free access and steady volume; multiple 660L bins suit sites where the bins live in different corners of the yard. Start with what the quote flow recommends for your business type and add bins when the floor tells you to; adding a bin to an existing weekly service is straightforward.
One placement rule for freight sites: put bins where the collection truck can reach them without entering the loading operation. Beside the dock apron or at the yard entry works; behind a parked trailer does not.
The quote flow does this sizing from your postcode and business type, then shows your exact per-collection price before you book. Start with your postcode, or read up on what drives Perth waste pricing first.
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240L, 660L, and 1100L wheelie bins on weekly collection, for general waste, commingled recycling, and organics. Higher-volume sites run a 1100L or multiple 660L bins on the same weekly service.
Almost always a 660L. Food waste is dense and wet, stays in the general bin in Perth (the organics stream takes greens and garden material, not food scraps), and a 240L bin at a working cafe is typically overflowing before the weekly collection lands. Busy venues often run two bins, or add a recycling bin for packaging.
Yes. Adding a bin or changing size on an existing weekly service is straightforward; talk to your provider. Sizing for your peak week from day one avoids the churn.
Yes, a lockable bin option with a chain and coded padlock is available on request. It is priced at booking time and mostly used at shared bin areas and street-facing tenancies where public dumping is a problem.
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