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Things you can add into your food and garden bin

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Now that the new food and garden bin service is underway, you can start adding food scraps into your green-lidded food and garden bin along with your usual garden waste. There are lots of things that you might not realise you can add.

What can go in

  • Vegetable and food scraps
  • Leftover food
  • Dairy (e.g., cheese and yogurt)
  • Rice, pasta
  • Meat, bones, fish, soft shell seafood
  • Citrus, onion and garlic
  • Eggshells
  • Coffee grounds and loose tea leaves
  • Paper towel, tissues, newspaper
  • Garden prunings, grass clippings, weeds
  • Compostable lime green liners (AS 4736)

There are also things that can't go into the food & garden bin because they will contaminate the load making it unable to be turned into compost.

What can't go in

  • Animal poo, litter or bags (even if compostable)
  • Teabags and coffee pods
  • Fruit stickers
  • Nappies and baby wipes
  • Plastic, metal or glass
  • Soft plastic or biodegradable bags
  • Packaging
  • Hard shell seafood (e.g., oyster shells)

The bundled green waste service will continue unchanged. It will run on the same fortnight as your yellow-lidded household rubbish bin collection.

Learn more about the food and garden bin service

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