Household waste includes domestic waste and other wastes arising from council activities such as the collection of waste from roads, parks and public places, beaches, waterways, street sweeping, and the collection of litter and illegally dumped waste.

Waste data is published annually through the Recycling and Waste in Queensland report, which includes an interactive visualisation of data since 2015-16.

In 2023-24,

• The proportion of household waste diverted from landfill was 28.3% (the current target is 55% by 2025).
• Weekly red bin lid kerbside services collected approximately 1.36 million tonnes of domestic waste from 2,072,308 households.  This is a 31 kilogram (4.5%) decrease per bin service and a 14.2 kilogram (5.4%) decrease per capita from 2022–23.
• Thirty-five councils provided a regular yellow bin lid kerbside collection service for paper and packaging materials to 1,931,277 households – a 1.9% increase from 2022–23.
• Councils sent 280,357 tonnes of paper and packaging for recovery. This is 8,080 tonnes less than the amount sent in 2022–23, or 7.3% less per bin service and 4.5% less per capita compared to 2022–23.
• Eleven councils provided 526,941 Queensland households with a regular green waste (green bin lid) kerbside collection service – an increase of 113,400 households from 2022–23.
• Green bin lid services collected 143,751 tonnes of garden or food organic wastes, 28,400 tonnes greater than the amount collected in 2022–23. This is a 0.99% decrease per bin service and a 33.3% increase per capita from 2022–23.
• Private sector waste facilities (landfills, monofills and incinerators) handled 48.3% of the total wastes sent for disposal. Of the waste sent to disposal, private sector facilities reported 27.7% is household waste.
• Close to 761,670 tonnes of segregated green waste were recovered, of which 59% was from domestic sources and the remainder from commercial sources.

The reduced recovery rate in 2022, was due to more than 274,000 tonnes of disaster waste disposed following the Queensland and New South Wales flooding events in the first half of 2022 and a 13% increase in household waste disposed.