Knox City Council have released a helpful guide what can go in your new bins.
Now that the new food and garden bin service is underway, you can start adding food scraps into your green-lidded food and garden bin along with your usual garden waste. There are lots of things that you might not realise you can add.
What can go in:
Vegetable and food scraps
Leftover food
Dairy (e.g., cheese and yogurt)
Rice, pasta
Meat, bones, fish, soft shell seafood
Citrus, onion and garlic
Eggshells
Coffee grounds and loose tea leaves
Paper towel, tissues, newspaper
Garden prunings, grass clippings, weeds
Compostable lime green liners (AS 4736)
There are also things that can’t go into the food & garden bin because they will contaminate the load making it unable to be turned into compost.
What can’t go in
Animal poo, litter or bags (even if compostable)
Teabags and coffee pods
Fruit stickers
Nappies and baby wipes
Plastic, metal or glass
Soft plastic or biodegradable bags
Packaging
Hard shell seafood (e.g., oyster shells)
The bundled green waste service will continue unchanged. It will run on the same fortnight as your yellow-lidded household rubbish bin collection.
