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Trying to make sense of tomorrow night's Council Meeting Agenda items about Domestic Waste:

Progress report on the Delivery Program 2022-26 and Operational Plan 2023/24 and Quarterly Budget Review Statement "In the first 10 weeks of the FOGO service, the Inner West community successfully diverted over 3,300 tonnes of organic waste from landfill. This diversion from landfill has been an outstanding result for the environment with approximately 7,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions saved. This is equivalent to taking around 6,000 cars off the road for a year."  - Item No: C0224(1) Item 1 Subject:  Quarter two - Progress report on the Delivery Program 2022-26 and Operational Plan 2023/24 and Quarterly Budget Review Statement https://innerwest.infocouncil.biz/Open/2024/02/C_13022024_AGN_4086_AT_WEB.htm FOGO (Food Recycling) Update - February 2024 "Council commenced the FOGO food recycling service on the 9th October 2023 and as of the 5 February had collected over 6,106 Tonnes of FOGO in the first 17 weeks of the service . This equates to 12,822 tonnes CO2, eq