It is part of a $6.2 million state government initiative to reduce food waste across NSW. 9News
bins will be distributed to 14 additional council areas for residents to use for food waste, meaning 56 NSW councils will now have the service.
Environment minister James Griffin said more than a third of waste sent to landfill is food, where it rotted and generated "damaging greenhouse gasses"."It's a new service that will let households put food waste into green lid bins with their garden waste, where it will be composted and given a new life, instead of ending up in landfill," Griffin said.
"We're empowering households to take simple and effective action to reduce the amount of waste they send to landfill each week and reduce household emissions." Griffin said the service, which has been in place in Randwick, prevented 26,000 tonnes of food and garden waste from going into landfill in the first 18 months.It is the equivalent of taking 9000 cars off the road.
More than 40 councils already have the FOGO services, which has been diverting 210,000 tonnes of organic waste annually.
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