Canberra's Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) collection program was expected to be rolled out city-wide in 2026, but construction of an appropriate processing facility has taken a back seat to replacing the ACT's recycling centre.
The Food Organics and Garden Organics pilot recycles the waste into compost.An ACT government pilot collecting food and garden organic waste to be recycled into compost has been extended to include more than 1,100 units in Belconnen and Tuggeranong.
The program provides households with a kitchen caddy and liners to store their scraps, then recycles the organic waste into a nutrient-rich compost. ACT City Services Minister Tara Cheyne says the FOGO program had to take a back seat to replacing Canberra's recycling facility.ACT Minister for City Services Tara Cheyne said having a recycling facility for Canberra was "really critical", with the capital's recyclables currently being transported to Sydney.
"The contamination rate in the ACT is extremely low. It's less than 0.1 per cent, which is a terrific outcome." "This is really part of our circular economy journey, but it's also the right thing to do for the environment, so there's real economic benefits but also real benefits for reducing emissions right across Canberra," she said.
"We'll start to roll those out over the coming weeks as people are made aware of which complexes are invited but I think it's going to be a really nice way of transitioning into a future of FOGO within the ACT," she said.
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