Doing the right thing with your garden organics

What are garden organics?

Garden organics are any materials that grow in your garden.

They include grass clippings, prunings, weeds, leaves, flowers, bark, sticks and small branches with a maximum diameter of 10cm, palm fronds and roots with a maximum diameter of 10cm. For more information, click here. 

To read the education factsheet, click here.

What should you do with your garden organics?

Correctly disposing of your garden organics waste is important if we're to protect remnant vegetation across Maitland. Here's how you can do the right thing:

• Collect and dispose of garden organics using your lime lid garden organics bin.
• Establish a compost bin or compost area on your property to make your own mulch and compost.
• Mulch grass clippings from your mower straight back onto the lawn.
• Do not dispose of garden organics over the back fence or into local bushland.

This project is a NSW Environment Protection Authority Waste Less, Recycle More initiative, funded from the waste levy.