Data from the City of Greater Bendigo shows 10,519 green waste transactions were recorded between March and May - a 3495 increase from the same period in 2019.

In May, 3761 green-waste transactions came through the gates, almost double of the 1949 that were recorded in May, 2019.

Council manager of resource recovery and education Brooke Pearce said the number of transactions didn't result in a dramatic increase of green-waste tonnage being managed by the landfill.

"It certainly was flat out with the increase (of landfill visitors) being customers taking advantage of the free green waste," she said. "We didn't have a lot of tonnage increase but in terms of customers it was a lot more than usual.

"We mulch that (green waste) onsite at Eaglehawk and this financial year have had two or three really successful weekends where the public has helped themselves to mulch. Each weekend had more than 900 people in."

Ms Pearce said the recycle shop had also been busy with people looking to reuse or repurpose items but that there was still significant cross-contamination in some waste streams.

"Figures increased significantly around the recycle shop with people buying a lot of bits and bobs," she said.

"But we are still finding lots of stuff in the wrong waste streams. Over COVID-19 there was newly introduced legislation banning e-waste from landfill but we still have reports of contaminated recycle bins.

"People have got material banned from landfill and they think 'it's not organic, so must be recyclable'. (E-waste can start fires in garbage trucks.

"We have sat down as group and workshopped (solutions) but it's not just our council. We're hearing reports of others (with a similar problem) and we're putting it down to people being at home and needing to get rid of items."

Ms Pearce said the increase of people using the tip hadn't slowed future waste plans for council. The Eaglehawk landfill is set to close in 2022. She hopes central Victorian businesses will be able to assist in taking and repurposing recyclable products to assist with waste management.

"Our strategy was to have no landfills be constructed in Bendigo after Eaglehawk (closes)," she said. "We still have got airspace there and the ability to landfill but we are still working on the date we gave initially, which is 2022 for closure. We need to work with industry and are hoping to create consortium"