There are many environmental benefits associated with the FOGO waste system. These include:
- Diverting food and garden organics from landfill, therefore reducing greenhouse gases,
- Processing FOGO waste into nutrient-rich compost will help enrich the natural environment.
The State Government also requires all local goverments in Perth and Peel to move to a FOGO waste system by 2025. Read more at the
Waste Authority WA website.
When the service begins, City of Subiaco residents will receive a new 240-litre lime green-lidded FOGO bin, allowing you to collect food and garden organics in one place. FOGO bins will replace the City's green waste bags.
Residents will also receive a small FOGO kitchen caddy and a supply of compostable caddy liners to help easily collect food scraps.
You can put food scraps and green waste in your new lime green-lidded FOGO bin.
This includes fruit and veg scraps, meat, seafood, bread, rice, dairy, prunings, leaves, and lawn clippings. Food items can be placed in your small FOGO kitchen caddy, with a compostable caddy liner, that can be tied up and placed in your 120/240-litre FOGO bin.
Read more about
what goes in your FOGO bin.
The City of Subiaco increased waste charges by 6.5% for the 2022/23 financial year to accommodate the move to FOGO.
The 240-litre FOGO bin will belong to your property, not you. The FOGO bin can complement your compost bin or worm farm, as it can take the things that they can't - for example, meat, bones, dairy products and large prunings.
Best practice guidelines for introducing FOGO suggest a multi-stage process, whereby FOGO is implemented in single unit dwellings (e.g. houses) first, so learnings can be applied to mutli-unit dwellings (e.g. apartments).
The transition to FOGO for multi-unit dwellings will commence in February 2024.
No, green waste bags will no longer be sold or used for collecting green waste once FOGO is rolled out in Subiaco.
The City is currently developing a compassionate policy related to its FOGO waste service. This policy is still in progress, and will need to be approved by Council before it is shared with the public.
Local governments in WA are required under the State Government’s Waste Strategy 2030 to introduce a 3-bin FOGO system by 2025. The City will be rolling out 240L FOGO bins in accordance with this strategy, and with the State Government’s Better Bins program.
The 240L bin is appropriate size for most residents, given it will be collecting both green waste and other organic waste streams that used to go into the general waste bin. For this reason, once the roll out is complete and residents have had the opportunity to use the service there may be an opportunity to review their circumstances.