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A
- Animal droppings
B
- Barbecue Skewers (bamboo)
- Biodegradable plastic bags
- Bones (Meat and Seafood)
- Branches <10cm diameter
- Bread (crusts, stale or mouldy)
- Building material
C
- Car parts
- Cardboard
- Cartons, such as milk or juice cartons (including lids or caps)
- Cat Litter
- Ceramics
- Cereal
- Certified compostable packaging, cutlery, containers, cups, straws, stirrers
- Charcoal
- Cheese
- Chewing Gum/Bubble Gum
- Chicken bones, skin, scraps
- Chopsticks (wooden or bamboo)
- Clothes
- Coffee grinds (without pods or other packaging)
- Compostable liners that don't have the Australian standard AS4736-2006
- Compostable liners with Australian Standard AS4736-2006 (for lining your caddy only)
- Cooking oils/fats (small amounts absorbed by newspaper or mixed into vegetable scraps are ok, large amounts should be stored in a container and brought to a chemical clean-up event)
- Corks (any type)
- Curries (best if frozen)
D
- Dairy products
- Dental floss/pick (any type)
- Dirt
- Dog or cat faeces
- Dust
E
- Egg cartons
- Egg shells
- Expired food (without packaging)
F
- Feathers (only fresh plucked chicken feathers)
- Fish & Chip paper
- Fish, bones, skin and scraps
- Flowers
- Food in containers (only food can go in FOGO but not the container)
- Food scraps
- Fruit, peel, cores, seeds and scraps
G
- Garden Cuttings
- Glass bottles and jars (including lids and seals)
- Grains
- Grass Clippings
- Green/Eco/Calico/Hessian/Reuseable Bags
H
- Hair, human or pet
- Hay or Straw (only products made from clean wood, timber, hay or straw can be accepted. Anything made with super-absorbent product may contain plastic and cannot not go into your FOGO bin)
- Household waste
I
- Ice cream container
J
- Junk mail
K
- Kitty litter, clay, paper based or plastic
L
- Leather products, bags, shoes and other
- Leaves
- Leftover cooked food
- Logs, larger than 10cm in diameter
M
- Magazines and glossy paper
- Meat bones and skins
- Meat scraps (raw or cooked)
- Medical waste
- Metal Tins and Cans
- Milk (including non-dairy milks)
- Mouldy food
N
- Nails, human and pet
- Napkins/serviettes
- Nappies (including compostable ones)
- Needles and syringes
- Newspaper (for lining your caddy or wrapping food only, newspaper pages are accepted but not the entire paper)
- Nuts, including shells and husks
O
- Oil (small amounts absorbed by newspaper or mixed into vegetable scraps are ok, large amounts should be stored in a container and brought to a chemical clean-up event)
- Oyster shells
P
- Paints and poisons
- Palm fronds and Palm tree nuts
- Paper bags (except for lining your caddy - Recycle first)
- Paper napkins
- Paper or plastic condiments sachets (e.g. sugar, salt, pepper sachets)
- Paper plates
- Paper towels
- Paper, shredded or dirty/oily
- Pasta (cooked or uncooked)
- Pet food
- Pet hay or straw (only products made from clean wood, timber, hay or straw can be accepted. Anything made with super-absorbent product may contain plastic and cannot not go into your FOGO bin)
- Pet poo
- Pizza boxes
- Plant cuttings
- Plant pots
- Plastic bags
- Pruning <10cm in diameter
R
- Recyclable items
- Recyclable plastic containers
- Rice (cooked or uncooked)
- Rocks
S
- Sand
- Sauces such as tomato sauce or relishes (without packaging)
- Seafood and shells
- Seeds
- Shellfish waste
- Shredded Paper
- Skin, fish, chicken
- Soil
- Straw or hay (only products made from clean wood, timber, hay or straw can be accepted. Anything made with super-absorbent product may contain plastic and cannot not go into your FOGO bin)
T
- Tea bags
- Tea leaves
- Textiles, bedding, cleaning cloths, carpets
- Timber (untreated, unpainted, uncoated <10cm in diameter
- Tissues
- Toilet roll, paper towel cardboard inners
- Toothpick
- Twigs and sticks <10cm in diameter
V
- Vacuum waste
- Vegetables, peels, cores, seeds and scraps
W
- Weeds
- Wipes, including compostable ones
Y
- Yoghurt
Z
- Zucchini
