FOGO starts in your kitchen and garden. When FOGO is introduced from mid-2026, you will use a FOGO caddy to collect your food scraps from the kitchen and tip them into the Green lid FOGO bin. Things such as plants, leaves, flowers and pruning's can continue to be placed into the Green lid FOGO bin.

The Green lid FOGO bin will then be collected weekly, as part of your regular waste collection service. From there, FOGO waste will be taken to a processing facility to begin the treatment and testing to create healthy compost that will be used around the local community and farms.

Frequently Asked Questions

You can put food and organic garden waste in your Green lid FOGO bin.

Food waste includes:

  • fruit and vegetables, including citrus.
  • food scraps and leftovers.
  • cooked and uncooked meat, including bones.
  • seafood, including prawn heads.
  • dairy, including yoghurt, cheese and eggs.
  • bread, pasta, rice, cereals.

Your garden organics includes:

  • lawn clippings.
  • leaves and flowers.
  • weeds.
  • veggie patch waste.
  • small branches.

PLEASE DO NOT put any plastics or biodegrable plastics, cardboard, plastic bags, cling wrap, teabags, glass, tins and cans, foil, Tetrapaks, nappies, treated timber, garden equipment, gravel, rocks or building material into your Green lid FOGO bin.

Fireplace ash, pet waste, kitty litter and dead animals are also not suitable - these can go in the Red lid landfill bin.

Your FOGO bin will be collected on a weekly basis as part of your regular collection service.

From there, FOGO waste is proposed to be taken to a processing facility to begin treatment and testing to create healthy composting that will be used around the local community and farms.

About 40% of all the general waste produced by our households is food and garden waste.  When this is placed in your Red lid bin and sent to landfill, it degrades and generates environmentally harmful greenhouse gases.

When FOGO waste is collected and processed, it is turned into compost, creating a nutrient rich resource, rather than rotting in landfill.

For now, sit tight. Our team are working through the details to bring the first stage of this new service to residents by mid-2026. Take a look at our Roadmap to FOGO to find out where we're up to.