Organics (FOGO)
Your Food Organics and Garden Organics bin has a bright green lid.
Materials you can put in your FOGO (Food Organics and Garden Organics) bin
- Food
- Garden organics
- Compostable plastic kitchen caddy liners that comply with Australian Standard AS4736-2006 (for commercial composting) used to collect and transfer food waste to the FOGO bin
- Fibre-based kitchen caddy liners (eg paper or newspaper) used to collect and transfer food waste to the FOGO bin
Here's a comprehensive list below:
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Where to put it (match the numbers) |
CAN'T GO IN FOGO
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- Adhesive labels
- Animal droppings
- Baking Paper (compostable)
- Bamboo, timber or cardboard packaging
- Bamboo cutlery, paper towels and serviettes
- Biodegradable plastic bags
- Building materials
- Car parts
- Cardboard
- Cat litter
- Chewing gum/bubble gum
- Clay (some clay left on plants is fine)
- Clothes
- Ceramics (broken/chipped)
- Certified compostable cutlery and containers
- Charcoal
- Compostable bags (except AS AS4736-2006)
- Corks
- Dirt (some dirt left on plants is fine)
- Dryer lint
- Egg cartons
- Feathers
- Fish and chips paper wrapping
- Glass bottles and jars
- Hair (human or pet)
- Household waste
- Junk mail
- Kitty litter
- Leather products - bags, shoes, other
- Logs larger than 10 cm in diameter
- Magazines and glossy paper
- Medical waste (not including sharps)
- Metal tins and cans
- Milk and juice containers
- Nail clippings - human and pets
- Napkins/serviettes
- Nappies (flush loose faeces down toilet first)
- Needles and syringes
- Newspaper
- Paints and poisons
- Paper - shredded, dirty or oily
- Paper bags
- Paper napkins (dirty)
- Paper plates (dirty)
- Paper sugar sachets
- Paper towel (used)
- Paper towel cardboard inners
- Pet waste
- Pizza boxes
- Pot plants (ie still in pot)
- Plastic bags
- Recyclable items/plastic containers
- Sand
- Shredded paper
- Teabags
- Textiles - bedding, cleaning clothes, carpets
- Tissues
- Toilet roll cardboard inners
- Vacuum waste
- Washing machine lint
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- General Waste
- General Waste
- General Waste
- General Waste/Recycling (cardboard)
- General Waste
- General Waste/Home compost
- Bulky Waste collection
- Bulky Waste Collection
- Recycling
- General Waste
- General Waste
- General Waste
- 2nd hand store/General Waste
- General Waste
- General Waste/Home Compost
- General Waste/Home Compost
- General Waste/Home Compost
- General Waste
- General Waste/spread in the garden
- General Waste
- Recycling
- General Waste
- General Waste
- Recycling
- General Waste/Home Compost
- General Waste
- Recycling
- General Waste
- General Waste/2nd hand store
- Bulky waste collection
- Recycling
- General Waste
- Recycling
- Recycling
- General Waste
- General Waste
- General Waste
- Sharps container
- Recycling
- Community Recycling Centre
- General Waste
- Recycling
- General Waste
- General Waste
- Recycling, if clean
- General Waste
- Recycling
- General Waste
- General Waste
- Plant (FOGO). Pot (Recycle/reuse)
- Reuse/General Waste
- Recycling
- General Waste/Save for later
- General Waste
- General Waste/Home Compost
- General Waste
- General Waste
- Recycling
- General Waste
- General Waste
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CAN GO IN
FOGO
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FOOD SCRAPS
Bones – meat and seafood
Bread
Cereal slops
Cheese
Chicken bones/skin/scraps
Coffee grinds
Compostable green liners with Australian Standard AS4736-2006
Cooking oils/fats
Curries (best if frozen)
Dairy Products
Eggshells
Expired food
Fish - bones, skin and scraps (store in freezer until your bin goes out for collection)
Fruit - peels, cores, seeds and scraps
Food waste
Grains
Leftover cooked food
Meat bones and skins
Meat scraps (raw or cooked)
Milk - small amount absorbed in paper towel or newspaper
Mouldy food
Nuts
Oil - small amount absorbed in paper towel or newspaper
Oyster shells
Pasta
Rice - cooked or uncooked
Sauces - cooked or uncooked
Seafood and shells
Shellfish
Skin - fish and chicken
Tea leaves
Vegetables - peels, cores, seeds and scraps
Yogurt
GARDEN WASTE
Branches (broken up)
Flowers
Garden cuttings
Grass clippings
Leaves
Palm fronds and palm tree nuts
Plant cuttings
Pruning (<10 cm in diameter)
Seeds
Timber (untreated, unpainted, uncoated, <10 cm in diameter)
Twigs and sticks (<10 cm in diameter)
Weeds
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How to use your kitchen caddy
Kitchen caddies are funded by a grant from the NSW Government.
We provide 12 months' supply of kitchen caddy bags at a time.
Here are some tips for your kitchen caddy: