Have you spotted the light green lid bins around Ipswich?

In 2019/2020, council found that 15,500 tonnes of compostable organics were being lost to landfill. This is enough to fertilise all the land in Ipswich! To change this, we explored the introduction of FOGO (Food Organics and Garden Organics) through a successful trial period at Bellbird Park and Raceview. Since the trial, almost one third of the Ipswich community have opted in for the service.

Interestingly, we have found that Ipswich households are much more likely to use the bins for garden organics, rather than food organics. In addition to this, the Queensland Government is responding to community concerns around waste odours, and are looking to change environmental standards for composting. With these changes, food organics will be considered highly odorous, and will require significant infrastructure upgrades to process.

Based on this, Ipswich City Council’s FOGO service is transitioning the collection of food organics (meat, dairy, food scraps and eggshells). The FOGO bins will remain at households and continue as GO bins (grass clippings, leaves, small branches and weeds).

We now need your help to understand how we can make this transition as easy as possible for you and others in our community.

Learn more

Chat to our Resource Recovery team in person who can help answer any of your questions.
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Have the GO bin service at your household?