A group of 250 households in Tamworth are being asked to help their community navigate its way forward with recycling by taking part in a Food Organics Garden Organics (FOGO) trial.
Tamworth Regional Council Manager Waste and Resource Recovery, Morne Hattingh, today announced the trial will start early in April and explained how it is an important part towards meeting NSW Government waste diversion targets and establishing the Tamworth Organics Recycling facility on an approved site at Gidley.
"FOGO is a kerbside collection service that allows food scraps to be added to the green lid garden waste bin so it can be processed and recycled," he said. "Council has committed to introducing the service for 20,000 homes in Tamworth, Barraba, Manilla, Nundle and Kootingal at the end of next year once the Organics Recycling Facility is up and running but first we need a trial to fully understand how to run the service most effectively here.
"A trial is the only way to get a true indication of the amount of organics we can expect to see diverted from the red lid bin to the green lid bin."
A letter has been delivered to the households invited to join the trial partially funded through a $502,000 through the Environmental Protection Authority's Waste Less Recycle More Organics Collection grants program.
