Green Bin

Your Green Bin is Collected Weekly

Please place only organic waste in your green bin. This includes:

✅ Food Scraps

	✅ All fruit and vegetable scraps
	✅ Bones
	✅ Seafood
	✅ Shells
	✅ Coffee grinds
	✅ Eggshells
	✅ Bread
	✅ Pasta
	✅ Cereal
	✅ Dairy products

✅ Garden waste

	✅ Grass clippings
	✅ Small branches
	✅ Sticks
	✅ Leaves
	✅ Weeds
	✅ Flowers

✅ Plus: Small UNTREATED and UNPAINTED timber off-cuts

❌ DO NOT put these items in your green bin:

	❌ Plastic bags including compostable or biodegradable
	❌ Tea bags
	❌ Papers
	❌ Soil and rocks
	❌ Large or thick branches, stumps, logs (as a general guide, anything thicker than your arm does not belong in your green bin)
	❌ Treated or painted timber (some treatments are toxic e.g. treated pine)
	❌ Timber furniture or toys
	❌ Plastic of any kind
	❌ Nappies of any type (including biodegradable or compostable nappies)
	❌ Plant pots- plastic or ceramic
	❌ Soiled paper and cardboard

Green Bin Tips

• Place garden clippings in your green bin before anything else. This will line the bottom of the bin and prevent lawn clippings and food waste from getting stuck.
• Wrap your food scraps in newspaper to reduce mess and odours.
• Freeze seafood and meat scraps until collection day to reduce odours.
• You can sprinkle some bicarb soda in the bottom of your green bin after it has been emptied, this will help absorb odours.

Overweight or Overfull Bins

Our trucks can only lift a maximum of 80kg in wheelie bins. Please avoid placing excessive quantities of heavy materials (e.g. wet lawn clippings) in your bin, as overweight bins cannot be emptied.

Overfull bins can result in spillage and difficulty of collection. Your bin lid must be fully closed with all contents contained inside the bin. We are unable to empty overfull bins.