Your kitchen needs a caddy
Turn Food Scraps Green
Food waste makes up the largest proportion of your blue-lid waste bin—around 38% by weight—but it belongs in your green organics bin instead.
By placing food scraps in your green bin, they’re transformed into nutrient-rich compost rather than being sent to landfill. This compost helps enrich gardens, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and supports a healthier environment.
How to Get Your Kitchen Caddy
Delivered to Your Door
To make food waste disposal easy, we provide all households with a free ventilated kitchen caddy and a roll of compostable bags—delivered to your door.
Pick Up In Person
Visit our Civic Centre (Woodville) or any Charles Sturt Library during opening hours. Just bring ID to confirm you’re a resident.
What Can Go in Your Kitchen Caddy?
Not sure what belongs in your green organics bin? If it came from food, it belongs!
✔️ Fruit & vegetable scraps
✔️ Meat, bones & seafood (cooked or raw)
✔️ Dairy products (cheese, yoghurt, etc.)
✔️ Bread, pasta & rice
✔️ Eggshells & nutshells
✔️ Coffee grounds & tea bags
✔️ Paper towel & napkins
✔️ Pizza boxes (with food residue)
✔️ Out-of-date or spoiled food (no packaging)
Simply place food scraps into the lined caddy, then empty them into your green organics bin every 2-3 days.
Run Out of Compostable Bags?
- Pick up a free roll at our Civic Centre or any library, just bring ID.
- Order a delivery online through our Customer Portal.
Other ways to food waste recycle
Worm farms are a great alternative to composting for people with small gardens. Worm farms can be kept inside, outside, on a balcony or in the shed. Worm farms are an excellent way of dealing with most food scraps.
Worms are voracious eaters and will eat most food scraps.
Worms do not like:
- meat
- onions, garlic and shallots
- citrus
- acidic food like tomato and pineapples
Put these foods in your green organics bin instead.
Read more about how to make a worm farm.
Home composting is a natural and efficient way to recycle food scraps. It gives you a free high-quality resource for your garden, making it more water efficient and adding rich nutrients to the soil.
Home composting is easy to do, cheap and provides many benefits for the environment and your garden.
You can compost most food scraps except meat, fish and bones. These don't break down in your home compost and can attract pests. Put them in your green organics bin instead.
Read more about how to make a home compost.
We have a recipe finder that helps you get the most out of every meal and ingredient in your kitchen. It will save you time and money and reduce your household waste by using up ingredients you already have.