FOGO Bin
Collected weekly
What can go into the lime green-lidded Food Organics, Garden Organics (FOGO) bin
✔ Raw and cooked leftover food
✔ Fruit and vegetables
✔ Bread, cereal, pasta and grains
✔ Used paper towel, napkins, shredded paper and tissues
✔ Food soiled paper and cardboard (fish & chips wrapping, pizza boxes etc.)
✔ Tea bags and coffee grounds
✔ Grass clippings and small prunings
Maximum weight limit 70kg.
Contents are processed at the Regional Resource Recovery Centre (RRRC) and turned into high quality compost.
What does NOT go into the FOGO bin
The following items will contaminate your FOGO bin and should NOT be placed in it:
✘ General rubbish
✘ Nappies and hygiene products
✘ Coffee pods
✘ Toiletry items (razors, toothpaste tubes etc.)
✘ Plastic bags (only the supplied compostable liners or newspaper to wrap food scraps are to be used)
✘ Construction, demolition and building materials (no bricks, sand, soil, concrete, rocks or asbestos)
✘ Glass or ceramics (place glass into your yellow-lidded recycling bin)
✘ Hazardous waste, including petrol, gas cylinders, paints, motor oils, garden chemicals and poisons, pool chemicals, cleaners, acids, bleaches and ammonia, medicines and flammable liquids
✘ Medical wastes or needles