Here are just a few reasons to FOGO:

• Help the environment by sending less waste to landfill.
• Save space in your red bin.
• You can save around $400 each year by downsizing your red bin from a 240L to a smaller size (120L and 80L options available). Submit a request or call Council on 02 4227 7111.
• Turn your waste into useful compost.
• Reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.

If everyone in Wollongong used FOGO weekly, together we could save an additional 150kg per household - or a total of 11,050 tonnes of food waste from going to landfill every year.

Food scraps still make up about 30% of all waste found in red bins of households in Wollongong.

When these food scraps and other organic waste from your garden goes into landfill, it takes up space and produces methane. Methane  is a powerful methane gas; over a 20-year period, it is 80 times more potent at warming than carbon dioxide

By using FOGO, we can recover and reuse this waste as nutrient-rich compost to improve soils and plants.

Let's create less of this...

and more of this...

Check out our How to FOGO page to get started.