Food waste collection
that ends in a harvest.
One caddy in the kitchen, one bin out the back. It works anywhere that produces food waste: we collect every week in Sydney and the Hunter, $45 a bin a week plus a fuel levy. Partner farms like Pocket City Farms host visits and workshops.
Three ways to work with us
Running a larger site? Advisory: a tailored food waste program
It starts
in the kitchen.
Food waste goes in a kitchen caddy with a certified compostable liner. Peels, coffee grounds, what's left on the plate. We bring the caddy, the liners and the signage.
One bin,
every week.
The caddy empties into a 120L bin out the back. We collect it every week, and have already collected 89 tonnes of food waste from Hunter businesses since June 2021.
It becomes
compost.
The food waste is composted, and the compost goes back into growing food.
The rules
are phasing in.
Businesses and institutions must separate food waste once their general waste passes a weekly threshold.
- From 1 July 2026, now
3,960L a week
- From 1 July 2028
1,980L a week
- From 1 July 2030
720L a week
That's three wheelie bins.
NSW EPA food organics rules, checked 28 Sep 2026.
Ideas from
your suburb.
Anyone can share an idea for their suburb's food system. The suburb upvotes, and the winner gets built with our support.
Since 2013:
where we started.
- 2.5M litres
- of food waste kept out of landfill through FO's urban farms, farm era to 2023
- 45+ tonnes
- of food grown on those farms in that time
Feedback Organic began on a farm in the Barrington Tops in 2013, then ran urban farms in Newcastle. We don't run our own farm today. We collect food waste every week, and partner farms host the farm visits, workshops and education. The full story
Watch: Farm to PlateThe short film from the farm years: food waste into food. Watch: the TEDx talkA circular economy approach to food waste, TEDxCooks Hill 2024.Where it started: the farm, 2013
