Let's go FOGO February 2021 - City of Bayswater
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Let’s go FOGO February 2021
What is FOGO
FOGO is the weekly
collection and
processing of food
scraps, organic
garden material, and
other compostable
items.
These will be turned
into compost, instead
of valuable food waste
being taken to landfill.
GO bin becomes FOGO bin
Once FOGO starts,
you can place food
organics and other
compostable items
into your lime-green
lid kerbside bin,
along with your
garden waste.
Bin sizes and collection day • Same bin sizes – 240L capacity for each of your three kerbside bins • Same collection day (day of the week)
When bins will be collected • FOGO bin (lime-green lid bin): weekly • General waste bin (red lid bin): fortnightly • Recycling bin (yellow lid bin): fortnightly. The general waste bin and recycling bin will be collected fortnightly on alternate weeks:
State Government Direction
The Waste Authority’s Waste
Avoidance and Resource
Recovery Strategy 2030 sets
targets for recovery of municipal
solid waste (MSW) in the Perth
and Peel regions:
• 2020 – Increase MSW material
recovery to 65%
• 2025 – Increase MSW material
recovery to 67%
• 2030 – Increase MSW material
recovery to 70%
State Government Direction Waste diversion results of Melville FOGO trial in 2017-2018. FOGO gets the best results. Source: Southern Metropolitan Regional Council (SMRC)
Who will get the FOGO service?
Phase 1 Phase 2
Commencing from March 2021 Date to be confirmed
Residents, groups and businesses who Residents with a shared onsite bulk
currently have a kerbside bin collection.
collection with wheelie bins.
Includes:
Includes: • residents in multi-unit developments
• single houses such as townhouses, apartments or
• grouped dwellings or villas (with units (with shared onsite bulk bin
kerbside bins) collection).
• sporting clubs
• community groups and
• businesses.
When will FOGO start? • We will start delivering kitchen caddies to each household during March. • Shortly after you receive your caddy, the collection frequency of your bins will change. • Information will be provided in the caddy to let you know when to start putting your FOGO bin out weekly.
Using your kitchen caddy
Compostable liners only
• Your caddy will come
with two rolls of
compostable liners –
enough for a year.
• The City will continue to
provide an allocation of
liners for residents.
• You can also purchase
them from some
supermarkets and
hardware stores.
• Use only caddy liners
that are certified
compostable under
Australian standards.What goes in the FOGO bin?
Place these items in your FOGO bin
All food Vegetable and fruit scraps
organics Meat and bones
including: Seafood
Eggshells
Teabags and coffee grinds
Dairy products
Take away food (no containers).
Garden Grass clippings
waste: Prunings, cuttings, trimmings
Twigs and sticks
Palm fronds
Weeds.
Other Animal droppings
compostable Kitty litter
items, Hair
including: Paper products with food oil on them (e.g.
pizza boxes)
Tissues, paper towel and shredded paper.What doesn’t go in the FOGO bin?
Do not place these items in your FOGO bin
No products you currently put in your yellow lid recycling bin
No plastic bags (bread bags, shopping bags or garbage bags)
No plastic packaging (bubble wrap)
No nappies (including both disposable and cloth nappies)
No personal hygiene products
No treated and painted timber
No building products
No metals
No glass
No plastic plant pots, garden hoses, seedling trays or garden
tools - the only 'garden products' that can go in are things
grown in the garden (green waste/garden organics)
No textiles (e.g. old clothing or cloth nappies).What goes in the Recycling bin?
Place these items in your
yellow lid recycling bin
Glass bottles and jars
Paper - not shredded
(including newspaper and
magazines)
Cardboard - flattened
Plastic bottles and
containers
Steel and aluminium cans.What goes in the Recycling bin?
DO NOT place these items in your yellow lid recycling
bin
No aerosol cans or gas bottles
No batteries or electronic items
No clothing or textiles
No materials in plastic bags
No nappies, hygiene or sanitary products
No soft plastics (e.g. plastic bags and wrappers)
No ropes, cables or hose
No UHT cartons (e.g. long-life milk, soy milk).What goes in the General Waste bin?
Place these items in your Do not place these items in
red lid general waste bin: your red lid general waste
bin:
General rubbish items No food organics or garden
Hygiene products organics
Nappies No clean recyclables
Polystyrene and soft plastic No hazardous waste
Coffee pods including aerosols, light
Disposable coffee cups globes, chemicals or
UHT cartons with silver batteries
linings (e.g. long-life milk) No hot ashes or liquids
Clothing and textiles. No sand or soil
No building products
(bricks, tiles etc.).What doesn’t go in any kerbside bin? • Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) can contain chemicals or substances harmful to people and the environment. • These items cannot be placed in any of your kerbside bins and must instead be taken to an appropriate disposal facility. • Visit the City’s website for details of where you can drop off these items.
Baywaste Transfer Station 271 Collier Road, Bayswater Opening hours: Monday to Friday: 7.30am - 4pm Saturday and Sunday: 10am - 4pm • All general household waste is accepted including all batteries. • No asbestos or Household Hazardous Waste (except oil and batteries). • Bayswater residents only may drop off refrigerators that are not degassed (proof of residency required). • Certain types of electronic waste can be disposed of free of charge.
Recycling Batteries, Globes and Mobile
Phones
• Household batteries and
fluorescent light tubes contain
non-renewable and potentially
harmful materials making them
unsafe to place in your
everyday rubbish bin.
• Mobile phones have many
useful recyclable components.
• Residents can dispose of these
products safely at one of eight
recycling stations around the
City.
• Please visit the City’s website
for details of what can be
dropped off at each location.Recycling Soft Plastics
• Plastic bags cannot go in your
recycling bin, as they become
entangled in the machinery at the
material recovery facility.
• However, plastic bags and other soft
plastic items can be taken to major
supermarkets for recycling.
• Look for the REDcycle collection bin
at the front of the store.
• To find your closest REDcycle
collection point visit
www.REDcycle.net.auRecycling Clothing
• Clothing and other good quality
household items that are not
stained, damaged or broken can
be donated to charity shops.
• “If you wouldn’t give it to a mate,
don’t donate”
• Visit giv.org.au to find a charity
drop-off point near you.
• If the charity bin is full, please don’t
dump unwanted items next to the
bin. This illegal dumping costs
charities thousands every year, to
lawfully dispose of the dumped
items.Useful websites City of Bayswater – FOGO www.bayswater.wa.gov.au/fogo/ Recycle Right – Disposal Guide A-Z recycleright.wa.gov.au/a-z/ Select ‘3 Bin FOGO A-Z’. Giv.org.au giv.org.au Find a charity drop-off point near you. REDcycle www.REDcycle.net.au Find a soft plastic collection point near you.
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