Sanitary bin services
for Melbourne businesses.

A serviced sanitary arrangement has three parts: the units, the visits and the waste. The provider installs units in the washrooms that need them, then returns on an agreed schedule to empty or exchange each unit, clean it and replace liners or other consumables, and takes the waste away.

Units a quote can cover

• Sanitary units for menstrual products, pedal-operated or manual.
• Sensor (touch-free) units, where hands-free use matters.
• Nappy units for parent rooms, childcare and accessible toilets.
• Incontinence units for aged care, disability services and accessible toilets.
• Sharps containers, where needed. WorkSafe Victoria's facilities code lists sharps disposal units among the toilet facilities to consider, and EPA Victoria says sharps go in a sharps container, not the normal clinical waste stream.

Ask each provider for the capacity and dimensions of every unit, what may be placed in it, and what happens at a visit: whether units are emptied on site or exchanged, how they are cleaned and which consumables are replaced. Ask, too, which facility receives the waste and how it is classified.

In Victoria, WorkSafe's compliance code Workplace facilities and the working environment (edition 1, December 2023) gives practical guidance on the facilities employers provide under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 and Regulations 2017. The code is not mandatory, but a duty holder who complies with it is taken to have complied with the duties it deals with.

• Accessible toilets: the code describes an accessible toilet as one that “contains a sanitary disposal unit” (paragraph 46).
• All-genders toilets: these “should be in an ambulant accessible sanitary compartment and contain a sanitary disposal unit” (paragraph 49).
• Toilets provided by employers: need rubbish bins, among other things, and where the need is identified, employers should also consider sharps disposal units and “suitable and hygienic ways to dispose of incontinence products” (paragraphs 59 and 60).
• Planning checklist: the code asks whether there is adequate “toilet paper, hand washing facilities including soap, rubbish bins and sanitary disposal” (Appendix E), and links sanitary disposal to “basic health, welfare, privacy, dignity and personal hygiene” (Appendix B).

In practice, assess each cubicle by who uses it, including female, all-genders and accessible toilets, rather than by the sign on the door, and confirm the arrangement with the person responsible for the workplace. Outside Victoria, check the code your own work health and safety regulator has adopted.

Source: WorkSafe Victoria — Compliance code: Workplace facilities and the working environment.

In Victoria, ordinary washroom sanitary waste generally is not. EPA Victoria's classification of clinical and related industrial waste excludes “sanitary napkins from non-patient areas or from commercial premises, if the area uses an appropriate disposal system”.

• Sanitary napkins from patient areas are listed as clinical waste, under materials containing human blood or body fluids.
• Incontinence pads and disposable nappies “are only considered clinical waste if there's visible blood”.
• Any type of waste from a patient known or suspected to have a communicable disease is reportable priority waste.

EPA pre-classifies clinical and related industrial waste as reportable priority waste. If your site includes patient areas, such as a clinic, a medical suite or a care setting where clinical procedures happen, agree how each stream is classified before comparing prices, and do not assume an ordinary washroom quote covers clinical disposal. Our healthcare waste service covers that separation.

Source: EPA Victoria — Classification of clinical and related industrial waste.

We do not publish a market price range for sanitary services. We have not verified one, and a price only means something next to the units, visits and terms it buys. What we can show is how to put two quotes on the same footing.

Build the annual total the same way for every quote

Annual total = number of units × chargeable visits per unit per year × price per visit, plus any rental, fees and minimum charges over the same 12 months. Check the visit count: a four-weekly schedule is 13 visits a year (52 weeks ÷ 4), not the 12 a monthly schedule gives.

A lower annual figure reached by removing units or stretching the interval is a different service, not a saving on the same one, so check capacity and hygiene first. Our quote comparison tool totals two quotes from your own figures, and the contract red-flags guide covers the clauses to check before signing.

Bundle Waste is a waste broker. We do not supply or service sanitary units ourselves; the hygiene provider you choose does. Our part is the comparison, the negotiation and the coordination around it.

1. Send what you have. Your latest invoice and agreement, or the washrooms, units and schedule you need.
2. We review the setup. Units, visit schedule and charges, checked against how each washroom is used.
3. We compare providers. We ask providers to quote the same specification, negotiate on your behalf and set the quotes out side by side: full cost, inclusions and terms.
4. You decide. If you choose a change, we help coordinate the provider, installation and start date. Your existing agreement's terms shape the transition.

Timing depends on provider availability, your current agreement and the changes required. A review does not guarantee a lower price.

• WorkSafe Victoria — Compliance code: Workplace facilities and the working environment, edition 1, December 2023 (PDF). Preface (status of the code); paragraphs 23, 46, 49, 59, 60 and 149; Appendices B and E. Checked 22 September 2026.
• EPA Victoria — Classification of clinical and related industrial waste, updated 17 December 2024. Sanitary napkins from patient and non-patient areas; incontinence pads and disposable nappies; waste from patients with a communicable disease; sharps; reportable priority waste. Checked 22 September 2026.

This page summarises Victorian guidance. It is general information, not legal advice for your site.