Can I use liners or bags?

No bags - Loose is lovely and layer up!  🍉🍊🍌🍞🍖🥚🦐🌿🍁🍂🥬🪵

To keep our FOGO (Food Organics & Garden Organics) compost clean and safe, please do not use any bin liners. Simply place your scraps loose into a container or paper bag and then empty them directly into your FOGO bin.

⚠️ Important:
All bagged FOGO waste will be rejected at the contamination sorting stage. Bags can be mistaken for the wrong material, may hide contaminants, or introduce chemicals that harm workers, soil, and compost 


💡Tips for easier FOGO handling:

  • Line your kitchen caddy with a paper towel or newspaper.
  • Use a paper shopping bag to collect kitchen scraps
  • Place newspaper or cardboard at the bottom of your FOGO bin to prevent organic from sticking.

 

🚫 Why no Compostable or Biodegradable bags? 

Contamination is hand-picked from each collection load. Because sorters can’t confirm what each bag is made from, all bags and liners are removed and sent to landfill.

Even when labelled as compostable or biodegradable, most bags still contain microplastics or “forever chemicals” (PFAS, PFOA) that contaminate compost and the environment.

Dulverton Waste Management has made the decision not to accept any biodegradable or compostable plastics to protect our soils, waterways, and future compost quality.

 

🌱 Let’s keep chemicals and plastics out of our compost.

Thank you for helping turn local food and garden scraps into high-quality compost for our farms, nurseries, schools, and gardens.

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