Food organics and garden organics

FOGO for households

Find out about what can and can't go in household FOGO bins

• Food
• Garden organics
• Compostable plastic kitchen caddy liners that comply with Australian Standard AS 4736-2006 (for commercial composting)
• Fibre-based kitchen caddy liners (eg paper or newspaper)

Scrap Together education

Scrap Together is a new education campaign to help households make the most of their FOGO.

• Scrap Together – FOGO education campaign
• Scrap Together evaluation report (PDF 2MB)
• Scrap Together grants
• Scrap Together resources

Organics funding

Grants open

• Go FOGO

Past funding

• Organics Infrastructure (Large and Small)
• Organics Collections
• Scrap Together grants
• Love Food Hate Waste
• Food Donation Education

FOGO NSW snapshot

43 councils in NSW have FOGO. There are many FOGO case studies and FOGO grant projects.

• NSW FOGO snapshot (PDF 204KB)

• NSW Organics Collection services map (PDF 1.9MB).

• Food waste infographic (PDF 90KB)

• Resource recovery order - compost (PDF 128KB)

NSW bin audit analysis

Understanding the performance of kerbside waste and organics recycling services.

• Analysis of NSW Green Lid Bin Audit Data Report 2020 (PDF 2.3MB)
• Analysis of NSW Red Lid Bin Audit Data Report (PDF 2.3MB)
• Analysis of NSW Food and Garden Bin Audit Data 2018 (PDF 1MB)

Research

Research shows many households are good food and garden recyclers.

• Review of Separate Organics Collection Legislation (PDF 857KB)
• Review of International Food Waste Collection Systems in MUDs (PDF 1.75MB)
• FOGO Deep Dive Education Project Community Survey (PDF 2MB)

Guides to FOGO

Check out these national and international guides to best practice

• Fact Sheet: Carbon credit income from FOGO (PDF 320KB)
• NSW guide to food waste recovery in multi-unit dwellings (PDF 5MB)
• Guide for better practice FOGO services (PDF 3.76MB)
• Guide to introducing food waste recycling collection services (PDF 3.1MB)

Regenerating land

Market development grant case studies show multiple benefits and uses for FOGO compost.

• Positive outlook for organics markets in NSW (PDF 175KB)

Benefits of composting

Explore the diverse ways the commercial compost industry is growing through our Cool Compost program.