Cleanaway Organic Eastern Creek
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Highlights
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Closing the loop
Transforming FOGO (food and garden organics) into high-quality compost for future food production.Saving Sydney’s FOGO from landfill
Processing 220,000 tonnes a year – approximately 20% of Sydney’s FOGO waste.Community-driven change
Enabling higher rates of FOGO recovery in the community.
World-class facilities at scale
Australia’s most advanced organics recycling facility and one of Sydney’s largest.
About Cleanaway Organics Eastern Creek
Strategically located in Western Sydney close to major councils and businesses, this EPA-licensed facility helps customers divert food and green waste from landfill, turning organic waste into a valuable circular resource.
The large-scale impact of our Eastern Creek facility reflects Cleanaway’s ambition to be the most sustainable waste management provider in Australia. More broadly, it contributes to targets in the Australian Government’s National Waste Strategy, which aims to halve the amount of organic waste sent to landfill by 2030.
What we process
Servicing several metropolitan councils, as well as supermarkets, restaurants, events and facilities managers, Cleanaway Organics Eastern Creek accepts a wide range of organic materials.
Residential and council-sourced FOGO waste
Commercial food scraps from hospitality, supermarkets and food manufacturers
Green waste and landscaping off-cuts
Other organic material from large-scale events
How it works
The facility uses an exclusive Biomax® composting technology to produce high-grade compost compliant with the NSW Environment Protection Agency’s (EPA) Compost Order 2016. This process involves:
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Manual screening and sizing
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Advanced decontamination techniques, including:
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Optical separation
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X-ray scanning
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Magnetic and non-magnetic separation
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Wind sifting
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Secondary screening for quality control
This state-of-the-art technology allows the facility to handle feedstock with higher levels of contamination, sending less organics to landfill and converting more for reuse in agriculture.
Benefits for councils and businesses
The plant supports councils to achieve the NSW State Government’s mandate of providing food and garden organics (FOGO) collections by 2030 by offering a local, circular and long-term solution for:
- Meeting FOGO processing requirements
- Reducing methane emissions from landfill
- Closing the loop on organic resource recovery
- Achieving council and commercial ESG goals
- Helping conserve limited landfill space in Sydney
Beyond the facility
Purpose-built for NSW FOGO
Designed in response to the NSW State Government’s organic waste diversion goals, the facility supports both residential and commercial customers with scalable, compliant processing capacity.
Odour and environmental control at every stage
Equipped with multi-stage air filtration, leachate management and strict material screening to protect the environment and the surrounding community.
Supporting local communities
Employees are recruited locally where possible, and Cleanaway provides education campaigns for local communities on the benefits of FOGO.
High-nutrient compost for agriculture
Facility produces high-quality compost that improves agricultural outcomes, with Cleanaway compost shown to increase yield.