Scrap Together - FOGO Campaign

Your greener, green bin is a home for your Food Scraps, Garden Waste and Nothing Else.

September 2025 - February 2026

Parkes Shire Council is proud to be part of the Scrap Together Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) campaign, running from September 2025 to February 2026.

We’ve teamed up with NetWaste, the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA), and seven neighbouring councils - Forbes, Bathurst, Dubbo, Lithgow, Mid-Western, Narromine, and Orange, to deliver an exciting regional education campaign aimed at helping our communities make the most of their FOGO services.

Parkes has been leading the way with a FOGO service since 2022, and now we’re working together to continue to make the most of our food and garden scraps.

YOUR SCRAP IS NEXT SEASON’S SOIL

Let’s be in it together, by making sure the right scraps end up in our kerbside Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) green bin.

Our community’s efforts to keep food from landfill reduces greenhouse gas emissions and also saves water and energy.

We all benefit directly by having access to the high-quality compost we produce for our gardens, or the delicious produce grown by local farmers using compost to nourish their soil.

By disposing of our scraps correctly and making sure our FOGO green bin doesn’t become contaminated, it’s a win-win for everyone in the food cycle.

LITTLE SCRAPS OF FOOD GO A LONG WAY

Good food comes from good land
Good land comes from good soil.
Good soil comes from good compost.
And good compost starts at your green lid FOGO bin.

WHAT YOU PUT IN YOUR FOGO BIN REALLY DOES MATTER

Your FOGO green bin is home for your food scraps:

meat
bones
dairy
fruit and vegetable scraps (stickers removed)
bread, pasta, grains
coffee grounds, loose tea leaves
eggs
fish

and garden waste:

garden leaves
prunings
grass clippings
weeds
palm fronds
small branches

If the wrong things end up in your FOGO green bin, it contaminates it and causes issues down the line at the composting facility and on our farms.

Materials that DO NOT go in your FOGO bin are:

Fibre-based materials eg. bamboo, timber, cardboard packaging and cutlery, paper towels and serviettes, tissues, coffee filters, baking paper, coffee cups, pizza boxes
Compostable bags or biodegradable plastic products
Vacuum cleaner dust, washing machine and dryer lint
Hair
Tea bags
Oyster shells
Newspaper
Pet poo and poo bags, kitty litter or animal bedding

By making the conscious decision of only putting Food Organics and Garden Organics into your FOGO green bin, you’re creating the best compost possible for farms and gardens across our region.

Read the Media Release, here.