This year, all Warrnambool households will get a bigger landfill bin.
These bins are increasing from 80L to 140L and will be collected fortnightly with your Green FOGO bin.
So what goes in my landfill bin?
- Nappies
- Sanitary and incontinence products
- Polystyrene including meat trays
- Black absorbent inserts from meat trays
- Chewing gum
- String and rope
- Disposable coffee cups
- Plastic straws
- Milkshake, soft drink and ice cream cups
- Tetrapaks (currently no recycling option for these in Australia but the industry & Tetrapak are working on it)
- Toothpaste tubes & brushes
- Sushi fish, sauce and flavour sachets
- *Soft plastics
- *Food wrappers including lolly and chip wrappers
- *Plastic bags
*Soft plastics including plastic bags and wrappers can either be put into your landfill bin or taken to participating supermarkets. For details visit – www.redcycle.net.au
All food waste and food scraps go into your FOGO bin for composting.