Go FOGO grants support NSW councils to deliver new weekly food only (FO) or food organics and garden organics (FOGO) services to their communities. These may be households that currently have no kerbside organics bin service or households with only a garden waste collection.

Go FOGO grants support NSW councils to deliver new weekly food only (FO) or food organics and garden organics (FOGO) services to their communities. These may be households that currently have no kerbside organics bin service or households with only a garden organics collection.

Two grant rounds are planned for each year for from 2022 until 2027.

The objectives of the Go FOGO grants are to:

• support the effective rollout of weekly FOGO (or FO) services to 500,000 households that have no organics service
• support the effective rollout of weekly FOGO (or FO) services to 1,500,000 households that have a garden only waste service
• provide additional support to councils with a significant number of multi-unit dwellings (MUDs) to deliver additional tailored communication to these properties.

Eligible organisations

All NSW councils who have not received funding via Go FOGO, are eligible to apply for funding to roll out new weekly FOGO services or FO services to households that do not currently have a service. The service must be active within three years of the grant application approval.

Councils that previously received funding under the Waste Less Recycle More organics collections grants or Go FOGO are eligible to apply for Go FOGO funding to provide a new weekly FOGO or GO service to households not covered by the previous funding. Councils with more than 10,000 MUDs, or where MUDs account for more than 20% of the housing stock across the local government area, may also apply to receive an additional $50,000 MUD payment, introduced in 2025.

• Email: organics.grants@epa.nsw.gov.au