A-Z FOGO list
A-Z list of what can and cannot go into the FOGO bin.
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
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
✗ Household waste
I
✗ Ice cream container
J
✗ Junk mail
K
✗ Kitty litter, clay, paper based or plastic
L
✗Leather products, bags, shoes
✓ 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/serviette
✗ 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
✗ 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
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