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🟢 FOGO bin - ✅ goes in

We get it, waste sorting can feel tricky. But every little effort counts, and by being a good sort with your bins, you’re helping our whole community!

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Tip food scraps straight from your reusable kitchen container, or paper shopping bag straight into the FOGO bin.

Food Waste:

✅ All vegetable, fruit and food scraps, including citrus and onions
✅ Cooked, spoiled or raw food
✅ Meat, bones, seafood, eggs, eggshells,
✅ Dairy, milk, cheese, yoghurt
✅ Bread, rice, cakes, pasta
✅ Coffee grounds, loose tea
✅ Soiled paper, tissues, shredded paper
✅ Food-soiled pizza boxes and paper bags

Garden waste:

✅ Lawn clippings, leaves, flowers, weeds (including noxious)
✅ Veggie patch scraps, small branches
✅ pruning, small branches (under 30cm long & 10cm thick)
✅ Untreated wood chippings

If in doubt leave it out!

💡 Pro Tip: Line the bottom with newspaper, a paper bag, or cardboard to soak up any leaks.

🟢 FOGO bin - ❌stays out

❌ No Bags – not even compostable bags. All bags are rejected because they can be mistaken for the wrong material, potentially introducing unwanted chemicals that affect soil quality.

Do NOT put in your FOGO Bin:

🚫 Soil, large branches, heavy logs
🚫 Concrete, rocks, ceramics
🚫 Plastic, metal, textiles
Treated timber, gravel, rocks, or building materials
Fireplace Ash
Recycling, Glass, tins, foil

General waste

Tetrapaks (e.g. milk, juice cartons)
Nappies
Cling wrap

Products possibly containing traces of plastics or chemicals

Biodegradable liners or containers
PLA #7 takeaway containers
Tea bags or coffee bags/filters

Health Risks

Pet waste or kitty litter
Dead animals or roadkill

ℹ️ If in doubt, keep it out!

📖 Glossy magazines belong in your recycling bin.

🔴 Landfill bin - ✅ goes in

We get it, waste sorting can feel tricky. But every little effort counts, and by being a good sort with your bins, you’re helping our whole community.”

Use this bin for all waste that cannot be recycled, reused or diverted.

Soft plastics, plastic bags and biodegradable bags
Disposable nappies and wipes
Personal hygiene products
Takeaway coffee cups
Foil-lined tetra packs - these are long life cartons and are generally found on shelves in supermarkets
Pet waste and kitty litter
Medical waste (if not collected/exchangeable at your local council or pharmacy)
Polystyrene foam

🔴 Landfill bin - ❌stays out

Batteries
E-waste including all electronic or battery powered devices
Light globes
Flares
Food scraps
Recyclable items
Garden organics and soil
Paints
Chemicals

Never put these in your kerbside bins

There are some items that can’t go in any of your kerbside bins - recycle these for free at your local waste transfer station.

These include:

Batteries
Light globes
Paint
Steel posts
Flares
E-waste

For any large, bulky items of waste contact your local council to help find the best local solution.

Keep a look out for regional initiatives, such as free annual household hazardous waste collection days, to dispose of things like chemicals safely.

🟡 Recycle Bin - ✅ goes in

Sorting waste can be confusing sometimes, and that’s okay. What matters is taking responsibility for what we create and doing our best to put it in the right bin

Use this bin for recyclable common household items and ensure they are left loose (no bags).

Extra gold star if you remove food waste, rinse out plastic containers and bottles (they don’t have to be sparkling clean), and flatten out your boxes.

Hard plastics that have the identification code (the number in the triangle) of 1, 2 or 5. These include:
- #1 (PET Plastics): like single use water/soft drink bottles
- #2 (HDPE Plastics): including cloudy milk bottles, washing detergent and spray bottles
- #5 (PP Plastics): such as yoghurt, butter or ice cream containers
Aluminium cans, including beverage cans
Steel cans - like tinned vegetable cans and pet food cans

Loose cardboard, newspapers, magazines, junk mail and office paper
Glass bottles and jars

🟡 Recycling bin - ❌stays out

Soft “scrunchable” plastics like shopping bags, food bags, bin liners and bagged recyclables

Small plastic pieces like bread bag tags and straws
Coffee cups, disposable drinking cups and cutlery

Paper towels, tissues, dishcloths
Pizza Boxes with oil and food
Compostable and fast food packaging

Composite packaging - this is packaging made from a combination of different materials which is hard to recycle including:

Foil-lined cartons / tetra packs: commonly found with juice, long life milk, soup, and other liquid foods.
Foiled lined bags like chip packets, coffee bags and dog food bags
Blister packs for medication, batteries or small electronics
Toothpaste tubes