What Can Go In My FOGO Bin? – Your Organics Bin

What you CAN put in your organics bin

All food including kitchen scraps and leftovers and anything that grows in your garden can go into your organics bin including:

Council supplied compostable kitchen caddy bags - only
Bakery goods
Bark & leaves
Citrus & onion
Dairy products
Flowers
Fruit & vegetables
Grass clippings & pruning
Leftover food scraps

Loose leaf tea & coffee grounds
Meat scraps & bones
Palm fronds
Pasta & rice
Roots
max. diameter 10cm
Seafood & shells
Sticks & small branches
max. diameter 10cm / max. length 30cm
All Weeds

Remember!

Remove all packaging, wrapping
and fruit stickers first!

They don’t break down and cause a big problem for the final product – quality compost.

What you CAN'T put in your organics bin

Bamboo or compostable packaging / utensils
Bin liners or kitchen tidy bin liner bags
Bricks, cement & building materials
Cardboard & paper
Electronic waste
Engineered wood
(i.e. Chipboard, Melamine, MDF)
Food scraps in packaging / plastic wrap
Household garbage
Oyster shells

Nappies
Oils & chemicals
Pet poo & pet waste
Plastic & biodegradable bags
Recyclables
Shade cloth & weed matting
Soil & rocks
Styrofoam / Textiles
Treated / painted timber
Vacuum cleaner dust / lint