Waste Management

Please sort your rubbish before disposing of it. There are three types of rubbish collections plus other recycling options:

FOGO: It is an acronym for Food Organics Green Organics. It replaces green bins which were previously just for garden waste. It is suitable for all food scraps (cooked or not), paper food containers and napkins. Appropriate items are listed on the kitchen FOGO bins and should be placed in the compostable green liner bags. The bins can be obtained from the Village Manager on request and there are additional supplies of the green bags in the mailroom. The full liner bags can be taken to the green bins on G2 level of the car park. (One near B Block and the other near the D Block end.)The bins are emptied weekly, currently on a Thursday morning.  Scroll to the bottom  for more information in what you can put in your FOGO Bin.

Yellow Bins: Clean paper, hard plastic and unbroken bottles (NO PLASTIC BAGS OR SOFT PLASTIC).Please rinse any food containers before placing them in the yellow bins nobody wants to clean up the smelly mess from lazy people. Remember the yellow bins are only emptied fortnightly so any food will make the garbage room very unpleasant.

Chute: For other rubbish that can't be recycled. Remember the chute is not large so don’t fill up large bags or put items like pillows in the chute. 

Note: Apartments on the G3 of buildings C & or G2 in building D use  a red bin in their garbage room not a chute 

YES ✔ 

• Place general household waste in garbage bag

• Be sure to tie up the garbage bag 

• Only dispose of bagged rubbish that can easily fit down the chute.

• Food scraps (although it is preferable that these are discarded in the FOGO bins)

NO   X

• Pizza boxes and other cardboard

• Hot items such as cigarettes, coal, hot oil

• Liquids

• Textiles, bedlinen, manchester, pillows, cushions

• Pots, pans, crockery

• Coat hangers

• Glass bottle 

Recycling: Items like batteries, printer cartridges need to go to the Matraville recycle depot. There is a box  in the mail room for these. Aluminium Coffee Pods can also go in a box in the Mailroom. A volunteer resident may take them occasionally.  

RECYCLE SMART

You may have noticed some additional containers have been placed in the mailroom cupboard for E-Waste, light bulbs and X-ray films. Please place these items in the designated containers for recycling.
A collection will be arranged through Recycle Smart for these items including, the soft waste plastic, when these are full.
If you have any larger electrical items such as toasters, heaters etc.. to dispose, please leave these in the mailroom next to the cupboard for collection.
We will trial a collection on a weekly basis, each Friday, so it is best to bring larger electrical items down on Thursday so that these are not sitting in the mailroom, clogging up the mailroom.

RECYCLE UNWANTED, PRE-LOVED SPECTACLES & EYE WEAR

A container has been added to the Recycle Smart cupboard in the mailroom for you to place any unwanted, pre-loved prescription glasses, or sunglasses in. These will be donated to the ‘Specsavers glasses recycling program’.
For further information, please refer to the Specsavers website or click on the following link 

www.specsavers.com.au/specsavers-community-program 


Polystyrene Recycling

Large boxes can be placed near the cupboard where the recycle smart items are placed.
Type 6 plastic, remember to look for the symbol 

Polystyrene from furniture or delivery packaging (white type only)
Remove all tape and glue.

NOT polystyrene peanuts, bag fillings, foam wrap or packaging foam

CLOTHING BIN

The clothing bin has finally been delivered! It is located in the loading dock area on the wall opposite the lockboxes. Please place clean unwanted clothing in this clothing bin.
When the bin is full, the village manager will arrange for it to be collected. You can access the clothing bin via the mailroom door leading to the loading dock.  

ACCEPTABLE ITEMS FOR THE CLOTHING BIN
• Clean, wearable clothes and shoes
• Accessories including belts, scarves, hats
• Handbags
• Manchester including clean, reusable towels, bedlinen (bedsheets, bedspreads, blankets)

Are old clothes accepted for rags?
                 o Unfortunately, no.
Do clothes need to be placed in plastic bags or loose in the clothing bin?
               o Either way so long as they are clean and reusable 


Large items like furniture, etc. go out on the Council Clean-up days. The Residents Committee has worked with Management and Randwick Council for pickups on a regular monthly house-hold clean up will be scheduled for the first Tuesday of each month, commencing from Tuesday 7 June. Residents will have the opportunity to discard any bulky house-hold items during this time.
All items will need to be taken to the loading dock area the day before the collection date by 1pm and placed neatly against the wall near the ILU garbage room so that the maintenance team can ensure that the loading dock area is not cluttered and items are placed neatly along the wall, ready for collection the next morning.
The flat bed trolley can be used to transfer items to the loading dock but must be returned to the gym front desk so other residents can use, if required.
The trolleys will be located in the gym, near the front desk. The trolley(s) must be returned to this area upon completion, so that other residents can also access the trolley(s). 

If you have any mattresses to discard, please email me to advise as I will need to arrange for a separate truck to attend to collect these. 

CARDBOARD BOXES

If residents have any large cardboard boxes, we ask that these be flatted, where possible, and bought down to garbage room in the loading dock. If not, please bring the box(es) to the loading dock garbage room where the maintenance team can flatten these. The flatbed trolley can be used to assist you to transport large, heavy boxes

Soft Plastics:

Randwick Council have advised that the soft plastic recycling program will recommence effective immediately, which is great news. The first collection for this year will be this Friday 27 January 2023.
Soft plastics and plastic bags collected are recycled into new products such as bollards, garden beds, fence posts, wheel stops, outdoor furniture, etc.
The soft plastic recycle bins are located in the mail room.
Attached is a reminder of the types of plastic that can be included in the soft plastic bins for recycling. For further information, please click on the link provided to the Randwick Council website
https://www.randwick.nsw.gov.au/services/rubbish-and-recycling/recycling-centre/Soft-plastics-recycling
Thank you for supporting this program and helping to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.

Please note:  To maintain hygiene standards the Waste Management of the ILU  is kept separate from Aged Care.  Red bins are separately and clearly identified as to the ILU and Yellow bins used in the ILU are a completely separate type to Aged Care (which are identified by SUEZ logo on the side)


There is so much more that can go in your FOGO Bin

FOGO might take a bit of getting used to, but once you make the switch, most people say they become much more aware of their waste habits and begin recycling even more. For many people, once you remove the food scraps from the red bin, the only thing left is soft plastics. Soft plastics can be recycled, but they can't be put in your yellow bin. You can drop them at the Randwick Recycle Centre or at your local supermarket or you can use Recycle Smart and someone will collect them from you.

Yet FOGO is a lot more than just food scraps and green waste from your garden. Here's 10 things maybe you didn't know could go in FOGO.

Materials that can go in the FOGO bins ✔

✔ Food

✔ Garden organics

✔ Compostable plastic kitchen caddy liners that comply with AS 4736-2006

✔ Fibre-based kitchen caddy liners (e.g. paper or newspaper) used to collect and transfer food

waste to the FOGO bin.

Materials that do not go in FOGO bins X

X Pet poo and poo bags

X Fibre-based materials, such as bamboo, timber or cardboard packaging and cutlery, paper

towels and serviettes

X Compostable or biodegradable plastic products or bags

X Vacuum cleaner dust, washing machine and dryer lint

For full details, please visit the EPA website as follows. 

https://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/your-environment/recycling-and-reuse/household-recycling-overview/fogo-information-for-households


Once you start using your FOGO bin more and more, you'll realise how much you can put in it. You'll also take more notice of what's left in  your red bin and might even start to recycle that. The more we can do to prevent items from ending up in landfill, the better. Thanks for doing your part and being a FOGO fan!