Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) Bin
You can put food and organic garden waste in your FOGO bin.
Food waste includes:
- All vegetable peelings
- All fruit scraps (including citrus)
- Cooked food, leftovers and spoiled food (removed from packaging)
- Meat and bones (raw or cooked)
- Seafood waste
- Dairy: milk, cheese, yoghurt etc
- Bread, cakes, pasta & rice
- Eggs and eggshells
- Loose tea leaves & coffee grounds
- Food soiled pizza boxes or paper bags
Garden waste includes:
- Lawn clippings
- Leaves
- All weeds – including noxious weeds
- Veggie patch waste
- Small branches
- Wood chippings (untreated)
You can also put newspaper, paper towel and shredded paper in the FOGO bin
PLEASE DO NOT put any:
- Biodegradable or compostable liners, containers, plastics or nappies
- Pet waste and kitty litter
- Dead animals or road kill
- Tea bags or coffee bags/filters
- Fireplace ash (put this on your garden instead to enrich the soil!)
- Plastics, plastic bags, biodegradable plastics
- Cling wrap
- Glass
- Tins and cans
- Foil
- Tetrapaks – like milk cartons
- Nappies or wipes
- Treated timber
- Gravel
- Rocks or building material
Tip: Make sure to separate food waste from containers so only food and garden waste goes in FOGO. If the container is recyclable, then give it a rinse and it can go into the recycling bin.
