What goes in my food and organics bin?
YES these items can go in the green-lidded bin.
- Council approved green compostable liners
- Dairy products
- Lawn clippings, leaves and weeds
- Meat and fish bones
- Oils and fats (absorb in paper towel first)
- Raw and cooked food scraps
- Real Christmas tree
- Tea bags and coffee grinds
- Vegetable peel and scraps
NO these items can’t go in the green-lidded bin.
- Ash
- Biodegradable/degradable plastics
- Clothing/fabric
- Concrete
- Fencing material
- Food packaging
- Gravel or dirt
- Household rubbish
- Large branches or logs
- Plant pots
- Plastic bags
- Plastic film/wrap/soft plastics
- Recyclable bin items e.g. paper, cardboard, hard plastics
- Takeaway coffee cups
- Treated timber
It is important to separate your organic waste from yourred lidded general waste so instead of it ending up in landfill it is turned into compost.It’s the little things that make the biggest difference.
The Kitchen Caddy
Kitchen Caddies (bench top ‘mini-bins’) are available to all households. These are a clean and easy way to collect your food scraps, coffee grinds, tea bags amd paper towel, this is your daily organic material which is in your home.
The Kitchen caddies come with an annual supply of Council approved Halve Waste compostable liners that can be tied up when full and placed directly into the green-lidded organics bin.
Compostable Liners
All residents in 3 bin council areas are provided with a year’s supply of Council approved green compostable liners annually. Please remember that the compostable liners supplied by your local Council are the only liners that can be used.
Biodegradable, degradable or normal plastic bags or bin liners DO NOT DECOMPOSE and can actually contaminate the contents of the green-lidded organics bin.
Compostable Packaging
An array of compostable packaging is now hitting the market such as compostable cups, mail bags and cooler pouches. These compostable items are not accepted in the green-lidded bin as they do not meet the strict requirements for our organics collection service. These itemsactually contaminatethe contents, so please leave them out.
Run Out of Compostable Liners?
If you run out of liners, you can empty organic materials straight into your green-lidded organics bins.
The organic caddy liners will be available from the Council Office, each Library or please call 1300 240 832 to order them to be delivered to your house.