Ipswich in Spring 2023

SETTING THE STANDARD FOR WASTE COLLECTION

Ipswich City Council will be setting the standard as the first council in Queensland to adopt a citywide Food Organics Garden Organics (FOGO) waste collection as a part of a three-bin core service. FOGO has been operating in Ipswich as an opt-in user pays service for several years. It was also trialled in 1,000 homes across Raceview and Bellbird Park since 2021 as a core service and would be available to more Ipswich residents from next year. This initiative enables residents to recycle their food organics and garden organics by disposing of them separately from general waste. The expansion of the current opt-in FOGO service to a citywide core service

means that an additional green lid FOGO bin will be included alongside the regular kerbside general waste red lid and co-mingled yellow lid bin collections. These additional households will join the current 26,000 properties that already have a FOGO service and the FOGO collection will be a fortnightly service, alternating with recycling collection. The implementation of the citywide FOGO service is scheduled to begin early in the 2024–2025 financial year, with an exact date yet to be finalised.

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