FOGO A-Z Guide

 Click below to find out what items can go in your green-lid FOGO bin.

A-J

  • Ash from wood fire (cold/inactive) 
  • Baked goods
  • Bones (chicken, fish and other small bones)
  • Branches (<1m long and 35mm thick, i.e. cut with a secateurs/loppers)
  • Breads, cakes and pastries
  • Cereal slops 
  • Cereals and grains 
  • Certified compostable items (plates, bowls, trays, knife, forks)
  • Coffee grounds and filter paper (no pods)
  • Cooking oil and fats (absorb in paper towel or newspaper)
  • Cotton balls 
  • Dairy foods
  • Dryer lint
  • Eggshells
  • Facial tissues
  • Feathers
  • Fish and chip paper
  • Flowers
  • Food scraps
  • Fruit fly infested fruit (can be tied up in an AS4736 certified compostable bag)
  • Fruits
  • General garden clippings
  • Grains
  • Grass clippings
  • Human and animal hair
  • Jelly

 

K-P

  • Kitchen paper towel (food soiled no chemicals)
  • Lawn clippings
  • Leaves
  • Leftovers
  • Lollies
  • Meat (raw, cooked)
  • Meat scraps
  • Napkins, paper (food soiled)
  • Newspaper
  • Nuts & seeds
  • Paper bags
  • Paper containers and takeaway boxes
  • Paper napkins (food soiled)
  • Paper plates
  • Paper towel (food contaminated or when used to wrap loose food, no chemicals)
  • Pasta
  • Pizza boxes
  • Popsicle sticks
  • Post it notes
  • Poultry
  • Printed serviettes
  • Prunings and cuttings

 

Q-Z

  • Salad and dressing
  • Seafood (including bones and shells)
  • Shredded paper
  • Small branches
  • Soiled cardboard/paper
  • Spoiled food
  • Sticks 
  • Straw and hay 
  • Take away food scraps
  • Tea bags/leaves
  • Thorny branches
  • Tissues
  • Toilet rolls
  • Tree roots (<1m long and 35mm thick)
  • Vegetables
  • Weeds
  • Wet paper/cardboard
  • Wooden toothpicks
  • Wooden uncoated chopsticks/skewers

 

 

 

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