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Common items to throw out at the end of the year

Common items to throw out at the end of the year

Common items to throw out at the end of the year

As the year comes to a close and we prepare for 2024, it is important you start decluttering your home. Guiding you to start the new year refreshed, there are several items that are commonly wasted to help households reset.

Inside and outside, we know that your property has several belongings you can leave behind before you enter next year. As many of our skip bin hire across Sydney are used to declutter homes, we often find several common items in our bins each year.

Are you looking for guidance on how to cleanse your home for the upcoming new year? Here are the items we find households often chuck out in the year’s final moments.

Your old Christmas tree

Your old Christmas tree

Is your Christmas tree looking old? Many people pull out their Christmas tree and decide it will be the last year it sees light. After a few years, trees start to fall apart and begin looking worse for wear and styles change, so it is natural to want to replace them.

At the end of the year, we find many Christmas trees make their way after being pulled down. We don’t just accept your tree but also the accessories like skirting and decorations that go with it.

Broken items

Broken items

Do you have a pile of broken items you acquired over the year? You’re not alone! Use the end of the year as a chance to remove all of the damaged items that are no longer useful from your home.

Under our general waste bins, we accept toys, materials, dishes, furniture, appliances and more. If you find anything is broken in your home, there is a good chance we will accept it in our general waste skip! With a range of skip bin sizes, we can cater to all amounts of broken waste.

Old towels and linen

Old towels and linen

Many people often consider the end of each year a good way to hit reset. One popular instance is in their linen cupboard. A carrier for bacteria, your linen cupboard is a deep hole full of towels, bed sheets, tea towels and other materials.

Begin the new year fresh, remove the old ratty pieces you no longer use and dispose of them in a skip. This will give you space to make way for new towels, bedding and more.

Dead plants

Dead plants

Your home isn’t the only place for items to waste at the end of the year! We find the green waste skip bin is often hired at the end of the year to weed out all of the dead plants.

Start the new year fresh with a maintained garden. Clean out the dying plants or simply open up the space in your garden. We accept trimmings, leaves, branches, grass cuttings and stumps.


The new year is close! Get your skip bin order in before it begins so you can start the year on the right foot. You will feel better heading into the new year with a clean space to take on the new year.

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