● Green waste · Byron Shire · Northern Rivers
Green waste removal.
Northern Removals clears garden and green waste at $100 per cubic metre, volume based. The Byron tip charges a green-waste gate fee, and you still need a ute or trailer and the drive to Myocum. We load the prunings, branches, clippings and palm fronds and run them ourselves, often same-day, across the Byron Shire and Northern Rivers.
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How much does green waste removal cost?
Northern Removals clears green waste at $100 per cubic metre, volume based. A ute-load of prunings and clippings is about 2 to 3 cubic metres, so roughly $200 to $300, loaded for you and run to Myocum. A DIY run is the tip's green-waste gate fee plus a ute or trailer hire and the drive there and back inside the weekend window.
| Job | What it looks like | Volume · price |
|---|---|---|
| Small garden tidy | A few bags of clippings, light prunings | ≈ 1 to 2 m³ · $100 to $200 |
| Ute-load prune | Hedge trim, shrub cutback, a season's growth | ≈ 2 to 3 m³ · $200 to $300 |
| Big cleanup or overgrown block | Multiple ute-loads, palm fronds, branches | ≈ 5 to 8 m³ · $500 to $800 |
| Green mixed with general rubbish | Not a clean green load, charged as mixed | $100 per cubic metre |
Green waste is light and bulky, so it prices well by volume: a big visual pile is often only a couple of cubic metres once it is on the truck. You pay for the space, not the weight.
What counts as green waste?
Garden organics: grass clippings, hedge and shrub prunings, leaves, small branches, palm fronds and weeds. The Byron tip takes it at a separate green-waste gate rate, lower than the $39.50 per 100kg mixed-waste rate, because it is composted rather than landfilled. Northern Removals keeps it as a clean green load so it stays on that cheaper stream.
| Load | Where it goes | Gate stream |
|---|---|---|
| Clean garden green waste | Composted, not landfilled | Green-waste rate (lower) |
| General mixed household waste | Landfilled at the tip face | $39.50 / 100kg, min $18 |
| Green waste mixed with rubbish | Treated as mixed once contaminated | $39.50 / 100kg |
Why does a green waste tip run cost more than it looks?
The gate fee is the small part. Green waste is bulky and light, so a big prune fills a ute or trailer fast and often needs two trips. Add the ute or trailer hire, the fuel, and the drive to Myocum inside the weekend window, and a $30 gate-fee job becomes a morning. Northern Removals folds all of it into $100 per cubic metre.
The honest version is on the Byron Bay tip guide: if you own a trailer and the load is small, a DIY run wins. If it is a big cutback and you would be renting a ute and doing two laps, get a 60-second quote instead.
Do you take branches and logs, or just clippings?
Both, within reason. Northern Removals takes prunings, hedge trimmings, palm fronds, leaves and branches you can lift by hand, at $100 per cubic metre. We are a two-mover truck, not a tree service, so whole felled trunks and stump grinding are a job for an arborist. Everything a garden tidy or a big prune produces, we load and run.
Clearing a whole block, not just the garden? The green waste and the general rubbish, old fencing, a dumped mattress, the shed pile, all leave on one truck as a full cleanout at the same $100 per cubic metre.
Green waste questions, answered straight
What Byron Shire and Northern Rivers locals ask Northern Removals about clearing garden green waste, with the numbers in the answers.
- How much does green waste removal cost in the Byron Shire?
- Northern Removals clears green waste at $100 per cubic metre, volume based. A ute-load of prunings and clippings is about 2 to 3 cubic metres, so roughly $200 to $300, loaded for you and run to Myocum. A DIY run is the tip's green-waste gate fee plus a ute or trailer hire and the drive there and back.
- What counts as green waste?
- Garden organics: grass clippings, hedge and shrub prunings, leaves, small branches, palm fronds and weeds. The Byron tip takes it at a separate green-waste gate rate, lower than the $39.50 per 100kg mixed-waste rate, because it is composted rather than landfilled. Northern Removals keeps it as a clean green load so it stays on that cheaper stream.
- Why does a green waste tip run cost more than it looks?
- The gate fee is the small part. Green waste is bulky and light, so a big prune fills a ute or trailer fast and often needs two trips. Add the ute or trailer hire, fuel, and the drive to Myocum inside the weekend window, and a job that looked like $30 in gate fees becomes a morning. Northern Removals folds all of that into $100 per cubic metre.
- Do you take branches and logs, or just clippings?
- Both, within reason. Northern Removals takes prunings, hedge trimmings, palm fronds, leaves and branches you can lift by hand. We are a two-mover truck, not a tree service, so whole felled trunks and stump grinding are a job for an arborist. Everything a garden tidy or a big prune produces, we load at $100 per cubic metre.
- Can green waste go out with other rubbish?
- Yes, but it changes the maths. Kept as a clean green load, it goes to the tip on the cheaper green-waste stream. Mixed in with general rubbish, the whole load is charged as mixed waste at $39.50 per 100kg at the gate. Northern Removals sorts where it is worth it, and the truck rate stays $100 per cubic metre either way.
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