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Find Out if Your Council Composts
Compost Connect has joined forces with compostable packaging supplier BioPak and has released brand new data detailing what types of residential composting is offered across Australia.
Search your council using the table below and find out if they offer garden waste and/or food waste composting collection from your home, also known as Food Organics & Garden Waste (FOGO).
Did you know that 53 councils in Australia accept compostable packaging in their residential compost collections?
If your council does not compost, sign our petition below to let them know it’s important to you.
Australian Councils Composting Food & Packaging
| Council | Garden Waste | Food Scraps | Fibre-Based Compostable Packaging | PLA Compostable Packaging |
| ACT Government | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
A FOGO pilot is running in Belconnen, Bruce, Cook and Macquarie.
| Council | Garden Waste | Food Scraps | Fibre-Based Compostable Packaging | PLA Compostable Packaging |
| Albury City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Armidale Regional Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Ballina Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Balranald Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bathurst Regional Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bayside Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bega Valley Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bellingen Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Berrigan Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Blacktown City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bland Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Blayney Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Blue Mountains City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bogan Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bourke Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Brewarrina Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Broken Hill City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Burwood Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Byron Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cabonne Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Camden Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Campbelltown City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Carrathool Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Central Coast Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Central Darling Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cessnock City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Canada Bay Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Canterbury-Bankstown | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Parramatta Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Ryde | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Sydney | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Wagga Wagga | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Clarence Valley Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cobar Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Coffs Harbour City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Coolamon Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Coonamble Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cowra Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cumberland Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Dubbo Regional Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Dungog Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Edward River Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Eurobodalla Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Fairfield City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Federation Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Forbes Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Georges River Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Gilgandra Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Glen Innes Severn Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Goulburn Mulwaree Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Greater Hume Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Griffith City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Gunnedah Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Gwydir Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hawkesbury City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hay Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hilltops Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hornsby Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hunter’s Hill Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Inner West Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Inverell Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Junee Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Kempsey Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Kiama Municipal Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Ku-ring-gai Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Kyogle Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Lachlan Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Lake Macquarie City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Lane Cove Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Leeton Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Lismore City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Lithgow City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Liverpool City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Liverpool Plains Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Lockhart Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Maitland City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mid Coast Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mid-Western Regional Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Moree Plains Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mosman Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Murray River Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Murrumbidgee Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Muswellbrook Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Nambucca Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Narrabri Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Narrandera Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Narromine Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Newcastle City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
North Sydney Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Northern Beaches Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Oberon Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Orange City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Parkes Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Penrith City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Port Macquarie-Hastings Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Port Stephens Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Randwick City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Richmond Valley Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shellharbour City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shoalhaven City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Singleton Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Snowy Monaro Regional Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Snowy Valleys Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Strathfield Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Sutherland Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Tamworth Regional Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Temora Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Tenterfield Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| The Hills Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Tweed Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Upper Hunter Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Upper Lachlan Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Uralla Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Walcha Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Walgett Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Warren Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Warrumbungle Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Waverley Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Weddin Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Wentworth Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Willoughby City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Wingecarribee Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Wollondilly Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Wollongong City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Woollahra Municipal Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Yass Valley Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Council | Garden Waste | Food Scraps | Fibre-Based Compostable Packaging | PLA Compostable Packaging |
| Aurukun Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Balonne Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Banana Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Barcaldine Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Barcoo Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Blackall-Tambo Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Boulia Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Brisbane City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bulloo Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bundaberg Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Burdekin Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Burke Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cairns Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Carpentaria Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cassowary Coast Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Central Highlands Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Charters Towers Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Gold Coast | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cloncurry Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cook Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Croydon Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Diamantina Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Douglas Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Etheridge Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Flinders Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Fraser Coast Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Gladstone Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Goondiwindi Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Gympie Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hinchinbrook Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hope Vale Aboriginal Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Ipswich City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Isaac Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Livingstone Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Lockhart River Aboriginal Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Lockyer Valley Regional Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Logan City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Longreach Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mackay Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mapoon Aboriginal Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Maranoa Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mareeba Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| McKinlay Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Moreton Bay Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mornington Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mount Isa City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Murweh Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Napranum Aborignal Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Noosa Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| North Burnett Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Paroo Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Pormpuraaw Aboriginal Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Quilpie Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Redland City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Richmond Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Rockhampton Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Scenic Rim Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Somerset Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| South Burnett Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Southern Downs Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Sunshine Coast Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Tablelands Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Toowoomba Regional Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Torres Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Torres Strait Island Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Townsville City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Western Downs Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Whitsunday Regional Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Winton Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Council | Garden Waste | Food Scraps | Fibre-Based Compostable Packaging | PLA Compostable Packaging |
| Adelaide Hills Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Adelaide Plains Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Alexandrina Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Barunga West Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Berri Barmera Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Campbelltown City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Adelaide | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Burnside | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Charles Sturt | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Holdfast Bay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Marion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Mitcham | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| City of Mount Gambier | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Norwood Payneham and St Peters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Onkaparinga | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Port Lincoln | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Playford | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Port Adelaide Enfield | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Prospect | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| City of Salisbury | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| City of Tea Tree Gully | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Unley | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| City of Victor Harbor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of West Torrens | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Whyalla | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Coorong District Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Ceduna | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Cleve | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Coober Pedy | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Copper Coast | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Elliston | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Franklin Harbour | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Grant | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Karoonda East Murray | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Kimba | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Mount Remarkable | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Orroroo Carrieton | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Peterborough | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Robe | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Streaky Bay | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Tumby Bay | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| District Council of Yankalilla | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kangaroo Island Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kingston District Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Light Regional Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mid Murray Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mount Barker District Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Murraylands & Riverland Local Government Association | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Naracoorte Lucindale Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Northern Areas Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Port Augusta City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Port Pirie Regional Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Regional Council of Goyder | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Renmark Paringa Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Roxby Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Southern Mallee District Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Tatiara District Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| The Barossa Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| The Rural City of Murray Bridge | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Town of Gawler | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Town of Walkerville | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wakefield Regional Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Wattle Range Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wudinna District Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Yorke Peninsula Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Council | Garden Waste | Food Scraps | Fibre-Based Compostable Packaging | PLA Compostable Packaging |
| Break O’Day Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Brighton Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Burnie City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Central Highlands Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Circular Head Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Hobart | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Launceston | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Clarence City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Derwent Valley Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Devonport City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Dorset Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Flinders Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| George Town Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Glamorgan Spring Bay Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Glenorchy City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Huon Valley Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Kentish Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| King Island Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Kingborough Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Latrobe Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Meander Valley Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Northern Midlands Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Sorell Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Southern Midlands Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Tasman Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Waratah – Wynyard Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| West Coast Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| West Tamar Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Council | Garden Waste | Food Scraps | Fibre-Based Compostable Packaging | PLA Compostable Packaging |
| City of Albany | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Armadale | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Bayswater | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Belmont | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Bunbury | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Busselton | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Canning | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Cockburn | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Fremantle | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| City of Gosnells | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Greater Geraldton | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Joondalup | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Kalamunda | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Karratha | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Kwinana | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Mandurah | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Melville | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Nedlands | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Perth | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Rockingham | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of South Perth | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Stirling | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Subiaco | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Swan | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Vincent | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Wanneroo | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Ashburton | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Augusta-Margaret River | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shire of Beverley | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Boddington | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Boyup Brook | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Bridgetown-Greenbushes | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Brookton | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Broome | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Broomehill-Tambellup | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Bruce Rock | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Capel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shire of Carnamah | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Carnarvon | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Chapman Valley | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Chittering | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Christmas Island | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Cocos (Keeling) Islands | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Collie | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shire of Coolgardie | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Coorow | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Corrigin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Cranbrook | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Cuballing | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Cue | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Cunderdin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Dalwallinu | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Dandaragan | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Dardanup | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Denmark | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Derby/West Kimberley | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Shire of Dowerin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Dumbleyung | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Dundas | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of East Pilbara | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Esperance | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Exmouth | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Gingin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Gnowangerup | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Goomalling | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Halls Creek | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Harvey | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shire of Irwin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Jerramungup | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Katanning | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Kellerberrin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Kent | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Kojonup | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Kondinin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Koorda | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Kulin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Lake Grace | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Laverton | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Leonora | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Manjimup | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Meekatharra | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Menzies | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Merredin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Mingenew | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Moora | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Morawa | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Mount Magnet | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Mt Marshall | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Mukinbudin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Mundaring | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Murchison | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Murray | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Nannup | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Narembeen | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Narrogin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Northam | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Northampton | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Nungarin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Peppermint Grove | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Perenjori | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Pingelly | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Plantagenet | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Quairading | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Ravensthorpe | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Sandstone | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Shark Bay | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Tammin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Three Springs | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Toodyay | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Trayning | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Upper Gascoyne | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Victoria Plains | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Wagin | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Wandering | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Waroona | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of West Arthur | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Westonia | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Wickepin | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Williams | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Wiluna | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Wongan-Ballidu | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Woodanilling | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Wyalkatchem | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Yalgoo | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of Yilgarn | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Shire of York | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Town of Bassendean | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Town of Cambridge | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Town of Claremont | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Town of Cottesloe | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Town of East Fremantle | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Town of Mosman Park | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Town of Port Hedland | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Town of Victoria Park | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Council | Garden Waste | Food Scraps | Fibre-Based Compostable Packaging | PLA Compostable Packaging |
| Alpine Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Ararat Rural City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Banyule City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bass Coast Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Baw Baw Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bayside City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Benalla Rural City | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Boroondara City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Borough of Queenscliffe | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Brimbank City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Buloke Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Campaspe Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cardinia Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Central Goldfields Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Ballarat | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Casey | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Greater Bendigo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| City of Greater Dandenong | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Greater Geelong | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Kingston | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| City of Melbourne | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Colac Otway Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Corangamite Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Darebin City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| East Gippsland Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Frankston City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Gannawarra Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Glen Eira City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Glenelg Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Golden Plains Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Greater Shepparton City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hepburn Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hindmarsh Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hobsons Bay City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Horsham Rural City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hume City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Indigo Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Knox City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Latrobe City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Loddon Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Macedon Ranges Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manningham City Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mansfield Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Maribyrnong City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Maroondah City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Melton City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mildura Rural City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mitchell Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Moira Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Monash City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Moonee Valley City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Moorabool Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Moreland City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mornington Peninsula Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mount Alexander Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Moyne Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Murrindindi Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Nillumbik Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Northern Grampians Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Port Phillip City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Pyrenees Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| South Gippsland Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Southern Grampians Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Stonnington City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Surf Coast Shire Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Swan Hill Rural City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Towong Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Wangaratta Rural City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Warrnambool City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Wellington Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| West Wimmera Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Whitehorse City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Whittlesea City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Wodonga City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Wyndham City Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Yarra City Council | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Yarra Ranges Shire Council | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Yarriambiack Shire Council | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
What Can Be Composted?
Garden Waste
Weeds, lawn clipping, dead plants, branches, stick,s dead flowers, grass clippings, leaves, small shrubs, anything that has come from your garden. Make sure to check what your council accepts.
Food Scraps
Banana peels, apple cores, potato skins, pizza crusts, old leftovers, bread, baked goods, coffee grinds, tea leaves, avocado pits, rice, pasta meat, bones. Make sure to check what your council accepts.
Fibre-Based Compostable Packaging
Cardboard, paperboard, sugarcane, bamboo. Anything fibre based packaging that is not lined with plastic, make sure you check!
PLA Compostable Packaging
Certified compostable PLA bioplastic cold clear cups, certified compostable coffee cups and lids. Make sure you look for the compost certifications logo.
Why We All Need to Compost
Get Organics Out of Landfill
Did you know when food waste is sent to landfill, it releases methane, a greenhouse gas 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Composting Reverses Climate Change
Compost rejuvenates soil which absorbs carbon out of the atmosphere.
Reduce Your Household Waste
60% of household bins contain organic waste that can otherwise be composted.This is a great way to reduce your personal carbon emissions.
Take Action if Your Council is Not Composting
The National Waste Policy Action Plan has created a target to halve organics from landfills by 2030 and states and territories have agreed to introduce Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) collection services to all households and businesses by the end of 2023.
Initially this sounds great, but this is just a suggestion, not a mandate and it’s up to individual councils to put an organics collection program in place.
Organic waste like food scraps and compostable packaging are a valuable resource ending up in landfill, that could otherwise be turned into nutrient-rich compost and put back into the ground to make our world a cleaner place! Composting will result in more jobs, in fact, composting creates 10 times more jobs than the regular waste stream.
We know it is frustrating that your council doesn’t currently offer composting, but there are a few things you can do to take action and push your council to expand their offering of waste collection.
First, sign this petition saying you would like your council to start composting. Secondly, send an email directly to local MP, here’s a template you can use. Finally, share this page with everyone you know and help us get every single council in Australia to start composting now!
Stay Informed
If you want to further support this campaign, read these inspiring articles on how other councils have introduced composting and what the government is doing.
3 Councils Councils Championing Composting
What is industrial Composting?
What Local Governments Are Doing
FOGO For Business In Action | Bega Valley Shire
