A-Z FOGO Recycling Guide

✓ = Can

✗ = Can't

What CAN and CAN’T go in your FOGO bin?
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