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.

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.

Available funding:

• $50 per household in single unit dwellings transitioning from no organics service to a weekly food and garden (FOGO) service
• $25 per household in multi-unit dwellings with shared bins transitioning from no organics service to weekly FOGO (or food only (FO)) services if no garden waste is generated on site) 
• $10 per household transitioning from garden organics (GO) services to weekly FOGO (or separate GO and FO collections where the GO is a minimum fortnightly and FO minimum weekly collection).

For a PDF version of the guidelines, please email organics.grants@epa.nsw.gov.au.

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 who have previously received funding under the Waste Less Recycle More organics collections grants are eligible to apply for funding to deliver new services only to households not covered by the previous funding.

Following the assessment and approval process, successful applicants are expected to be notified in late 2023.