Your FOGO Bin (Lime Green-Lidded)

Factsheet Your FOGO Bin (Lime Green-Lidded) Contents from your FOGO bin (lime 8 NO Glass green-topped), collected weekly, (ALL glass goes in your recycling bin are processed at the RRRC into high (yellow-topped) except mirror glass. quality compost organic waste. 8 NO Batteries. Place batteries into All food, organic waste, grass clippings community Battery Disposal Bins. and small prunings go into your lime green lidded FOGO bin. 8 NO Hazardous Waste: petrol, gas cylinders, & poisons, pool chemicals, NOTE: To ensure this waste stream is cleaners, acids, liquids. ✘ not contaminated and the composting process compromised, please keep the 8 NO Medical wastes or needles. ✘ following items out of your FOGO bin. ✘ 8 NO construction, demolition & building materials (no bricks, sand, soil, concrete, rocks or asbestos). PLEASE PUT IT IN THE RIGHT BIN! The lime-green lidded bin is for food and garden waste, such as kitchen scraps and garden clippings, which can be composted, just like a home compost bin Shredded paper Meat Small pieces of paper Dairy Paper towel/napkins Bamboo Tea bags Cooked food Soiled paper bags Processed food Coffee grounds Citrus Greasy pizza boxes Flowers Soiled cardboard food packaging Bones Human Hair Tissues Food and vegetable scraps Weeds Garden waste (small prunings and grass clippings) Terracotta tiles and pots Kitty litter Soap Soiled newspaper Seafood Manure/animal droppings Animal hair page 1 Oil (cooking) Wood (garden pruning) recycleright.wa.gov.au phone: 9329 2700 email: [email protected] Factsheet Your FOGO Bin (Lime Green-Lidded) Using your Bins HANDY HINTS • Return bins to your property as soon BIN PLACEMENT as possible. To assist waste and recycling operators • Store bins in a shaded area. in servicing your bin on collection day: • Clean bins regularly. • Bins should be placed within 1.5 metres of the road kerb by 6:00am • Wrap all moist and perishable foods on collection day, with the handles in newspaper or use your Council facing towards the property, without supplied compostable caddy liners, the bin blocking footpaths or before placing in your FOGO bin. driveways. • Freeze all smelly food and place • Place your yellow recycling bin about in your FOGO bin the night before half a metre from the lime green bin collection. to allow clear access for the side • Put lawn clippings and small loading service vehicle’s grab arm. prunings on top of the material in • Please do not overfill your bin as your FOGO bin to prevent jamming. the rubbish and recycling trucks’ Remember the following items will hydraulics cannot lift bins weighing contaminate your FOGO bin, so over 70kg, or those overfull with the please: lid open. Hot or burning ash, liquid NO glass or ceramic items wastes, oil, paint, solvents or heavy materials should not be placed in NO hazardous waste: chemicals, your bin as they may damage the batteries or printer cartridges bin, waste collection vehicle and the NO demolition or building materials environment. • Your bin lid must close so that the contents do not spill when it is lifted or the lid does not blow open causing street litter. • Place your bin clear of parked cars, trees, poles, etc to allow clear access to the service vehicles. • Only waste placed inside the bin will be collected. HELP US TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY BY PUTTING IT IN THE RIGHT BIN page 2 RECYCLERIGHT.WA.GOV.AU recycleright.wa.gov.au phone: 9329 2700 email: [email protected].

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