Fogo Bayswater

[Sandra Grady]

TheFOGO waste system has already started for most households, except for multi-unit developments. If your household is FOGO-ready, you are now able to place food organics and other compostable items into the lime-green lid bin, along with your garden waste. The contents of your FOGO bin will be turned into compost, instead of being taken to landfill.

The less we send to landfill, the better for our environment. Right now, up to half the contents of our red lid general waste bin is organic material that ends up in landfill. Under the FOGO system, we can divert this material from landfill and turn it into compost.

The WA State Government requires all local governments in Perth and Peel to move to FOGO by 2025. The City's early adoption of FOGO is part of our ongoing commitment to reduce waste and reduce greenhouse gases.

To use your caddy, insert a provided compostable liner and start putting your kitchen scraps in there - vegetable peel, meat scraps, eggshells and the like. When full, tie the ends and place the bag in your lime-green lid kerbside bin for weekly collection on your normal bin day.

If you already have a kerbside collection with wheelie bins, you will move to FOGO from March 2021. This includes single houses and grouped dwellings or villas, sporting clubs, community groups, and businesses.

If you live in a multi-unit development like a townhouse, apartment or unit with a shared onsite bulk bin collection, your FOGO service will start at a later date. The City will contact strata managers and caretakers of multi-unit developments to assess their waste management requirements and work with them on a case-by-case basis to provide a FOGO service.

No, your collection day will stay the same. After you receive your kitchen caddy and start sorting your food waste, place your lime-green lid FOGO bin out every week. Your red lid general waste bin and yellow lid recycling bin will be collected fortnightly on alternate weeks.

To request rubbish bin repair or replacement, please contact us on 9272 0605 or email wa...@bayswater.wa.gov.au If emailing, be sure to include: the street address (of the bin service), your phone number, which bin you would like repaired or replaced, and why (is it broken, missing etc.).

No. The State Government requires all councils and residents in the Perth and Peel regions to adopt the FOGO waste system by 2025. Our early adoption of FOGO from March 2021 is part of our ongoing commitment to reduce waste and greenhouse gases. We will provide plenty of support and information to all residents ahead of our start date to ensure a smooth transition. If you have special circumstances, please contact us on 9272 0964 or fo...@bayswater.wa.gov.au

Your lime-green lid FOGO bin will be emptied weekly. The organic waste will be taken to Red Hill Waste Management Facility for processing into compost. The better you sort your food waste in the kitchen, the better the quality of the resulting compost. Remember no glass, metal or plastics in your FOGO bin as this will contaminate the compost. Only use the compostable bags provided by the City in your caddy, or line it with newspaper.

The potential uses for the compost will depend on its final quality, so it's important to separate your waste as well as possible and keep plastic, glass and metal out of the FOGO bin. Any non-organic items will contaminate the compost and affect the quality of the final product.

Moving to FOGO will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save valuable space in landfill. When sent to landfill, organic waste breaks down in an oxygen-free environment and produces a harmful greenhouse gas called methane. Methane is 25 times more harmful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Under the FOGO system, food organics, garden organics and other compostable items are collected from households and processed in an oxygenated environment, which produces far less methane. The result is compost that allows the nutrients from your waste to be returned to the earth.

A free kitchen caddy, compostable caddy liners and instructions were delivered to each eligible household from March 2021 (see 'Who will get a FOGO service?' above, to find out if this includes your household). The caddy is a counter-top style bin with a lid and handle, to keep on your kitchen bench for collecting your food scraps.

If you move into a property and there is no kitchen caddy or liners there, please visit any City of Bayswater library where you can be issued a free kitchen caddy. Please bring identification with your address shown when coming to collect.

To use your caddy, insert a provided compostable liner and start collecting your kitchen scraps inside - vegetable peels, meat scraps, eggshells etc. After 2-3 days, or once the liner is full, tie a knot in the top to seal it and transfer the liner and its contents into your FOGO kerbside bin (lime-green lid). Put out the FOGO bin for weekly collection on your normal bin day. Visit this page to find out what day your bin is collected each week.

Using a compostable liner will reduce the need to wash the caddy. You can also line your caddy with newspaper as this will break down in the composting process. You can continue to put garden waste into the lime-green lid kerbside bin, along with your food waste.

The caddy comes with an initial supply of two rolls of compostable liners (150 liners), which should last up to a year. The City will continue to provide an allocation of liners for residents annually. Additional liners will also be available for businesses, sporting clubs, community associations and schools participating in the FOGO system.

From 19 July 2021, you can collect more liners from a City of Bayswater Library, or our City of Bayswater Civic Centre at 61 Broun Avenue, Morley. When you come to collect, please bring identification that shows you are a City of Bayswater resident, i.e. something showing your address, such as a driver's license or utilities bill.

The allocation will be 2 x rolls of 75 liners (total of 150 liners) per waste year, per residence free of charge. Residents will be able to collect one roll at a time. The waste year runs from April 1 to March 31.

You can also purchase more compostable liners from supermarkets and hardware stores if you choose. Please look for this symbol (below) on the packaging, it indicates the product is certified compostable under Australian Standards and will break down during the composting process, without leaving any toxic residue which could affect plants and earthworms.

As an alternative, you can line your caddy with newspaper or a paper bag, as paper will break down in the composting process along with your FOGO waste. You can also place your food waste loose into the caddy and the FOGO bin - simply rinse out your kitchen caddy after emptying.

If you do use up your liner allocation before the end of the waste year, you can now purchase additional rolls from our facilities. Each roll costs $6 and contains 75 liners and there's a purchase limit of two rolls per collection

No, only one roll will be available for collection at a time. We recommend picking up your replacement roll of liners when you are near the end of your current roll, as the compostable liners have only a short shelf life and will begin to break down if stored for long periods.

Heat and moisture can make them decompose faster, so we recommend storing your liners in a cool, dry place and soaking up any liquids from food scraps by placing paper towel or newspaper inside the compostable liner or at the bottom of the kitchen caddy.

The compostable liners provided by the City are intended to be used for food waste only. You can purchase certified compostable liners designed for pet waste from local pet stores, supermarkets or online retailers.

No. Plastic bags, including degradable and biodegradable bags, will contaminate the FOGO bin. These products are not compostable - they are essentially plastics that have the ability to decompose faster than the traditional plastic bag. They eventually break down into microplastics, which are very small pieces of plastic that pollute the environment.

Instead, place only bags marked as 'certified compostable' with the symbol shown below, in your lime-green lid FOGO bin. Or as an alternative, you can place food waste directly into the FOGO bin, or use paper towel or newspaper to line your kitchen caddy or to wrap food waste.

FOGO liners can be collected by a nominated person on your behalf, upon providing a letter of authorisation requesting the City of Bayswater to issue the FOGO liners for your property to the nominated person. Please follow the instructions outlined in this form.

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