Yarra Ranges Council will be holding in person and online information sessions to break down how the new Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) kerbside collection service will work for consumers.
The council will host a Zoom information session on Wednesday, 16 August from 7pm-8pm. Booking for the online session is required.
An in-person session will be held at Yarra Junction Library on Saturday, 19 August from 10am-noon.
Residents can speak to members of the Council’s Resource Recovery team to ask questions about waste collections – FOGO, recycling and rubbish.
The sessions will assist people to find out more about upcoming changes and how to use the new FOGO collections.
No registration is required to attend.
From 2 October this year, the new system is set to make it easier to reduce waste and stop material going to landfill while reducing harmful greenhouse gases.
The new service will provide people with the opportunity to place garden clippings and food scraps, including meat and bones, into the FOGO bin instead of the rubbish bin, saving around 13,500 tonnes (or 1,700 garbage trucks) of food waste going to landfill every year.
For more information head to the Yarra Ranges Council website.
