Asbestos guides by area

Somewhere not listed?

If you're between towns, or out on a farm, put the nearest town in the form; we keep your job on file and your details with us. Most crews travel an hour or more for a decent-sized job; the minimum call-out reflects the drive, and naming the nearest town and a road helps whoever eventually quotes judge that drive accurately. Or start again from the asbestos guide for all of Gippsland.

The 6 areas, and how their houses differ

Gippsland's asbestos era ran from the post-war building push to the late 1980s, and each part of the region built at a different time, so what turns up in your yard depends on where you are.

• Morwell and Latrobe City. The Latrobe Valley has the most of it. The Housing Commission built more than 2,000 homes in Morwell in the 1950s, and Churchill went up from 1965. Latrobe City Council says about 3 in 4 homes in the city are likely to contain asbestos, against roughly 1 in 3 nationally. Fibro eaves, Super 6 sheds and fibro fences are the routine jobs.
• Moe and Newborough. The Housing Commission built about 1,500 homes in Moe between 1947 and the mid 1950s, and the SEC laid out Newborough for the Yallourn workforce with imported prefabs.
• Warragul, Drouin and West Gippsland. A mix. Warragul grew steadily after the war and Drouin's older streets are pre-1990, but most of Drouin's growth came after 2010, and a house built after the 2003 national ban won't have it. The older cores, the farmhouses and the dairies are where the fibro is.
• Wonthaggi, Inverloch and Bass Coast. The oldest housing on this list: State Coal Mine cottages in Wonthaggi from 1910, then decades of holiday houses at Cowes, Cape Paterson and Inverloch, most built between the 1940 bridge and the 1980s. At the 2011 census, half or more of the dwellings in Inverloch, Cowes and Cape Paterson were holiday places, so the owner is often in Melbourne and the job is arranged by phone and photo.
• Sale, Maffra and Wellington. Sale built fast around the RAAF base from the 1940s and again through the Esso years from the mid 1960s, with Housing Commission streets alongside. The beach subdivisions at Loch Sport and Golden Beach are 1950s to 1980s shacks, and fibro was the shack material.
• Leongatha and South Gippsland. Leongatha's building boom was the 1950s and 60s, Korumburra got more than 100 Commission houses after the war, and Sandy Point was mostly built out in the 1980s. Dairy sheds are the big jobs here. The February 2024 storm at Mirboo North tore roofs off tens of houses; that clean-up is complete, but damaged sheet still turns up in yards.

Bairnsdale and East Gippsland don't have a page yet. If you're east of Sale, put your town in the form anyway. For your own load, Bairnsdale Landfill takes domestic asbestos by appointment with 24 hours' notice.

Asbestos disposal: where the waste goes, and why your town changes the quote

Five council facilities across Gippsland take a homeowner's own asbestos: the four listed here, and Bairnsdale Landfill for East Gippsland, above. That shapes both the removalist's day and what you can do yourself.

• Latrobe: Hyland Highway Landfill at Loy Yang, by appointment, in packages of 20 kg or less, paid for first at the council office in Morwell.
• Baw Baw: none. No Baw Baw transfer station takes asbestos; the council points residents to EPA Victoria, and the nearest practical facility for a homeowner's own load from Warragul or Drouin is Hyland Highway, which takes Baw Baw residents' loads, up to 120 kilograms, by appointment at a per-package fee.
• Bass Coast: Grantville Landfill, weekdays only, booked ahead, bundles under 25 kg and 1,200 mm, 110 kg a load, rate notice in hand. The Wonthaggi and Inverloch transfer stations don't take it.
• Wellington: Kilmany Resource Recovery Centre on Velore Road, by prior arrangement. Maffra Landfill doesn't take it.
• South Gippsland: Koonwarra Landfill, weekdays 8 to 4, and only if you carried it there yourself.

Every one of those takes domestic loads only. The moment a licensed removalist takes the sheets down, the load is commercial and goes to an EPA-licensed commercial facility instead, with the wrapping, transport and tipping inside their price. So the tip that matters to the removalist may not be the one nearest you, and the drive is part of why a Gippsland quote can sit above the published 2026 ranges. A Warragul job and a Traralgon job with the same square metres can come in differently for that reason alone. The disposal page has each council's rules, phone numbers and wrapping limits in one place.

Checking a removalist before they come out

A removalist's name goes into the footer of this site only once they've agreed in writing to cover that area, and their legal name and WorkSafe licence number are checked against WorkSafe Victoria's public register. You can check the number on that register yourself before anyone comes out.

Until then, the town page is still a genuine guide to the housing, the council's disposal rules and how a licensed job runs there, and it's worth sending us your job anyway. Your job stays on file, and your details stay with us.

What to send, and who sees it

Put your town in the form, not just "Gippsland". Whether a job is in Moe or Maffra changes who would cover it, which tip the waste goes to, and the travel in the minimum call-out. Add 2 or 3 photos, the material as best you can name it (fibro fence, Super 6 roof, lagged pipe), a rough size in metres, and whether anything is broken; if the material is broken, burnt or storm-damaged and you need someone today, WorkSafe Victoria's directory of licensed removalists can help straight away. Farms and blocks between towns: give the nearest town and a road name so whoever eventually quotes can judge the drive.

Your job is held on file, not shared around. That's a deliberate choice: a job sent to several firms at once just means more unwanted calls, not a better price. A WorkSafe-licensed removalist carries out the actual asbestos removal. We keep your job on file, and your details stay with us. If you want a second quote, get one; the cost guide tells you what a fair one looks like, and nothing here stops you comparing. What you won't get is your number passed around the Latrobe Valley.