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The Green Bin

The green-lidded bin (greenwaste bin) now accepts a wider range of greenwaste. This material is processed through the new Biomass Facility at the Coffs Coast Resource Recovery Park, to produce compost.

The 12-litre kitchen organics bin provides an hygienic way to collect compostable food scraps and other kitchen organic wastes before emptying in the 240-litre green bin. Read more about the kitchen organics bin.

Your green bin is now collected weekly (see collection calendars).

THESE ITEMS GO INTO YOUR GREEN BIN:

All food scraps, including meat, bones and prawn shells;
Grass clippings and leaves;
Soiled paper or newspaper (including tissues and soiled kitchen paper towel);
Flowers and weeds;
Small non-treated timber offcuts;
Prunings, twigs and small branches;
Palm fronds (cut to ensure bin closes);
Noxious weeds.

The following items CANNOT go into the green bin:

Treated timber;
Stumps or large branches;
Plastic bags or garbage;
Soil.

RED: What goes into the red bin?

YELLOW: What goes into the yellow bin?

Put the right thing in the right bin!

This goes into your green bin

GREEN BIN TIPS:

Wrap food scraps in newspaper to reduce odour and spillage.

Wrap prawn shells and heads, fish bones and other putrescibles in newspaper and freeze, place in green bin on the night prior to collection.

Place prunings at the bottom of the bin to stop grass cuttings sticking.

Layer garden waste with food waste.

CCWS Information Hotline:
1800 265 495

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