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 napkins (food soiled)
- Paper plates
- Paper towel (food contaminated or when used to wrap loose food, no chemicals)
- Pasta
- Pizza boxes
- Popsicle sticks
- Poultry
- Printed serviettes
- Prunings and cuttings
Q-Z
- Salad and dressing
- Seafood (including bones and shells)
- Shredded paper
- Small branches
- 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
- Wooden toothpicks
- Wooden uncoated chopsticks/skewers