Crews from Flagstaff delivered the first of Shellharbour City Council’s new food waste caddies on Monday, and will continue to drop them off to about 900 homes a day for the next five weeks.
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The food waste containers are designed to be used as part of the council’s new weekly collection service.
Called Food Organics Garden Organics (FOGO), the waste collection service makes it possible for residents to dispose of all kitchen scraps – including fruit and vegetable scraps, meat, tea bags, eggs, fish and takeaway leftovers – as well as cardboard and paper towels in the green-lidded bin.
This bin will be picked up weekly from July 1, while the yellow-lidded recycling bin and red-lidded waste bin will be collected fortnightly.
The material collected in the organics bin will be turned into compost by an external company, before an on-site organics processing facility is built later this year.
