A
|
✗
|
Adhesive labels and tape |
| ✗ |
Animal droppings |
B
|
| ✗ |
Baking paper |
| ✗ |
Barbecue skewers (bamboo) |
| ✗ |
Biodegradable plastic bags |
| ✓ |
Bones (meat and seafood)
|
| ✓ |
Branches (under 10cm in diameter) |
| ✓ |
Bread (crusts, stale or moudly) |
| ✗ |
Building materials |
C
|
| ✗ |
Car parts |
| ✗ |
Cardboard |
| ✗ |
Cartons, such as milk or juice cartons (including lids and caps) |
| ✗ |
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 |
| ✓ |
Compostable liners with Australian Standard AS4736 (for lining your caddy) |
| ✓ |
Cooking oils/ fats (small amounts absorbed by newspaper or mixed into vegetable scraps only) |
| ✗ |
Corks (any type) |
| ✓ |
Curries (best if frozen) |
D
|
| ✓ |
Dairy products |
| ✗ |
Dental floss |
| ✗ |
Dirt |
| ✗ |
Dust |
E
|
| ✗ |
Egg cartons |
| ✓ |
Egg shells |
| ✓ |
Expired food (without packaging) |
F
|
| ✓ |
Feathers (natural animal-derived feathers from food preparation) |
| ✗ |
Fish and chip paper |
| ✓ |
Fish (bones, skin and scrapes) |
| ✓ |
Flowers |
| ✗ |
Food in containers (only food can go in FOGO bin, not the container) |
| ✓ |
Food scraps |
| ✓ |
Fruit (peels, cores, seeds and scraps) |
G
|
| ✓ |
Garden cuttings |
| ✗ |
Glass bottles and jars (including lids and seals) |
| ✓ |
Grains |
| ✓ |
Grass clippings |
| ✗ |
Green/ Eco/ Calico/ Hessian/ Reusable bags |
H
|
| ✗ |
Hair (human or pet) |
| ✓ |
Hay or straw (clean and unused) |
| ✗ |
Household waste |
I
|
| ✗ |
Ice cream container |
J
|
| ✗ |
Junk mail |
K
|
| ✗ |
Kitty litter (clay, paper based or plastic) |
L
|
| ✗ |
Leather products (bags, shoes or other) |
| ✓ |
Leaves |
| ✓ |
Leftover cooked food |
| ✗ |
Logs (over 10cm in diameter) |
M
|
| ✗ |
Magazines and glossy paper |
| ✓ |
Meat (bones, skin and scraps) |
| ✗ |
Medical waste |
| ✗ |
Metal tins and cans |
| ✓ |
Milk (including non-dairy milks) |
| ✓ |
Mouldy food |
N
|
| ✗ |
Nails (human and pet) |
| ✗ |
Napkins/ serviettes |
| ✗ |
Nappies |
| ✗ |
Needles and syringes |
| ✓ |
Newspaper pages (only for lining your kitchen benchtop caddy or wrapping food organics) |
| ✗ |
Noxious weeds |
| ✓ |
Nuts (shells and husks) |
O
|
| ✓ |
Oyster shells |
P
|
| ✗ |
Paints and poisons |
| ✗ |
Palm fronds and palm tree nuts |
| ✗ |
Paper bags |
| ✗ |
Paper or plastic condiment sachets (e.g, sugar, salt or pepper) |
| ✗ |
Paper plates |
| ✗ |
Paper towels |
| ✗ |
Paper (including shredded paper) |
| ✓ |
Pasta |
| ✓ |
Pet food |
| ✗ |
Pet hay or straw (used or soiled) |
| ✗ |
Pizza boxes |
| ✓ |
Plant cuttings |
| ✗ |
Plant pots |
| ✗ |
Plastic bags |
| ✓ |
Pruning (under 10cm in diameter) |
R
|
| ✗ |
Recyclable items |
| ✗ |
Recyclable plastic containers |
| ✓ |
Rice (cooked or uncooked) |
| ✗ |
Rocks |
S
|
| ✗ |
Sand |
| ✓ |
Sauces (Without packaging, e.g, tomato, BBQ, mayonnaise) |
| ✓ |
Seafood and shells |
| ✓ |
Seeds |
| ✓ |
Shellfish waste |
| ✗ |
Soil |
T
|
| ✗ |
Tea bags |
| ✓ |
Tea leaves |
| ✗ |
Textiles (bedding, cleaning cloths or carpets) |
| ✓ |
Timber (untreated, unpainted, uncoated and under 10cm in diameter) |
| ✗ |
Tissues |
| ✗ |
Toilet roll and paper towel cardboard inners |
| ✗ |
Toothpicks |
| ✓ |
Twigs and sticks (under 10cm in diameter) |
V
|
| ✗ |
Vacuum waste |
| ✓ |
Vegetables (peels, cores, seeds and scraps) |
W
|
| ✓ |
Weeds (noxious weeds, follow state or local advice) |
| ✗ |
Wipes, including compostable ones |
Y
|
| ✓ |
Yoghurt |