All recycling placed in Ipswich City Council's yellow top bins will now be dumped in landfill.

The council's recycling contractors advised the current rate being charged would skyrocket if recycling was to continue.

Ipswich City Council will now dump recyclables placed in yellow top bins into landfill. AAP Image/ Tracey Nearmy

It would have meant an increase in costs of $2 million per year, which could equate to a 1.5 to 2 per cent rate rise in Ipswich.

The south-east Queensland city is the latest to suffer the effects of China's decision to no longer take Australia's recycling waste.

In February, Fairfax Media reported council rates in Victoria were likely to rise by 1.1 and 2.5 per cent as a result of China's ban, on top of a 2.25 per cent state-mandated maximum rate rise.

This week, Maroondah Council, in Victoria, announced it would raise its charges for bin collection by $68 per year, to $324 per household as a result of the China ban, with others expected to follow suit.

Until recently, major recycling companies would pay Victorian councils about $60 to $70 a tonne for the contents of residents' yellow bins and sell it to China at a higher price.

Now unable to do that, it is understood recycling companies plan to charge councils a fee to take the material.

Ipswich mayor Andrew Antoniolli said Ipswich was the latest domino to be affected by the nationwide issue.

He said all councils would eventually be impacted by the viability of recycling household waste.

In a statement issued on Wednesday afternoon, Ipswich City Council said the current contamination level in the city's recycling was unacceptably high, with about half of everything collected from yellow-lid bins not able to be recycled.

It said for recycling to continue, it meant the council would need to reduce by half the amount of pizza boxes, food waste, plastic bags, disposable nappies, grass clippings and garden waste, broken plates, coat hangers, light bulbs, dirty tissues and serviettes, and foam packaging.

Cr Antoniolli said the national recycling system "broke sooner than we expected".

"I have spoken personally to the minister on this issue, and made it clear that we've been backed into a corner on recycling," he said.

Councillor Wayne Wendt encouraged residents to continue sorting their waste as per normal, with bins to be collected on the same days, and yellow-lid bins to be collected each fortnight.

"This is a fundamental shift in how we as a community think about waste," he said.

"The focus on recycling will not be very much on waste reduction."

Cr Wendt said since the ABC Four Corners program on waste was broadcast earlier this year, contamination rates of yellow-lid recycle bins had doubled.

Green waste will still be recycled.

The council will call tenders by midyear to bid on waste-to-energy projects to allow a portion of the city's energy to be environmentally friendly.

The move will not be followed in Queensland's capital city.

Brisbane City Council Field Services chairman Peter Matic said there would be no change to Brisbane's recycling program.

"A total of 93 per cent of materials placed in Brisbane yellow-top bins are able to be recycled, due to an extremely low contamination rate, unlike other local government areas," he said.

Cr Matic said more than 80 per cent of goods collected from kerbside recycling were processed in Brisbane.

"Paper and glass are recycled at processing plants in Brisbane, including glass processed into asphalt, and no goods are stockpiled," he said.

"Around 2 per cent of plastics are unable to be recycled locally and are purchased by Chinese markets, and this is expected to continue."

The majority of Brisbane plastics collected are recycled into plastic bottles at a New South Wales-based recycling plant.

The Queensland government has announced it will introduce a waste levy to reduce the amount of rubbish being transported in from interstate.

But former Supreme Court Justice Peter Lyons warned the levy must also apply to garbage that originated inside Queensland as well, or it could breach the federal constitution.