After packing up all your belongings and moving furniture to your new home, what are you supposed to do with all the rubbish that has accumulated at your front door? This rubbish may include bags of garbage, broken furniture, and old items that you no longer want.

The average cost of professional rubbish removal in Australia naturally increases depending on the load ie from several bags of garbage to disposing of old furniture.

If you want to save money on rubbish removal, you can take care of this waste disposal yourself by using the following tips:

• Calculate the amount of waste accumulated. For efficient junk removal, it's important to calculate the exact amount of garbage that you will need to dispose of, including garbage bags, boxes, old furniture, and items that you no longer need.
  
  This will help you determine if you need to hire a skip bin for rubbish removal, or if you can transport the garbage yourself to the local landfill.
• Recycle before dumping garbage. Recycling will help cut down on your environmental impact and will also allow you to efficiently dispose of any recyclable items instead of using rubbish removal.
  
  Items that can be recycled include garden clippings, kitchen scraps, paper, cardboard, aluminium cans, milk containers, and glass jars.
  
  Currently, recycling centres will accept aluminium cans, plastic bottles, paper, milk and juice cartons, glass, and cardboard free of charge for recycling.
  
  Take the time to sort all recyclable materials from items that will be disposed of via garbage removal.

• Contact your local council for waste collection pickup times. Depending upon the area you live in, there are designated times in the year for hard waste collection, where local city employees will pick up items for rubbish removal in your local area.
  
  The city or local council normally requests that rubbish is organised into three separate piles of mattresses, metals, and other approved materials.
  
  Approved materials for city rubbish removal include household appliances, furniture, metal products, electrical appliances, car parts, ceramics and mirrors.
• Organise rubbish into small loads that can be taken to the local tip for waste disposal.  If you are not able to obtain a waste collection time in your area, then an option still exists of transporting your rubbish in small loads to the local landfill.
  
  Use the above guidelines for approved materials when transporting rubbish to the local landfill.

Finally, if you determine that your 'green' bin for tree clippings and cut grass isn't going to be enough room, then try contacting your local council to see if they offer free on-call collection for large volumes of tree clippings and branches for curb-side pickup.

Top moving tip

Some cities now recycle scrap metal via curb-side pickup. Other cities have begun recycling mattresses and electronics in select areas.

Make sure to contact your local council to find out what type of hard waste recycling services are available in your area.