Get rid of your insinkerator

21 December 2022

It’s time to get rid of insinkerators in the Tweed.

When you throw food scraps into a green-lid bin, Council turns them into top-quality compost, not landfill.

When you throw food scraps into an insinkerator, they travel down our pipes and end up at our wastewater treatment plants as sludge alongside our poo and pee.

At our plants, it takes a lot of energy (electricity) to turn the sludge into safe biosolids for disposal.

Benefits of compost vs insinkerators

Compost is great for feeding your garden. Insinkerators are great for helping create fatbergs.

What’s a fatberg? It’s a revolting mass of congealed fats, bones, grease, wet wipes and more that clog up our pipes and damage our wastewater network. Here’s a pic.

Keep food scraps out of our wastewater treatment network.

Get rid of your insinkerator and get a green-lid bin from Council if you don’t already have one. It's better for our environment. 

Green-lid bins are available to houses, units and townhouses across the Tweed. Even businesses can get green-lid bins.

Head to green lid bins - food and garden waste to find out more.

We recommend you use a licensed plumber to remove your insinkerator. The cost of removing the device is usually a lot less than the cost of replacing it. 

Download the related information sheet(PDF, 379KB).