Food and organic waste collection that keeps pace with Cobram’s seasons

Around Cobram, a good share of what ends up in a bin started out as food. Packing sheds, orchards, processors, cafés and pubs all produce waste that behaves differently to ordinary commercial rubbish. It’s wetter, heavier, more seasonal, and it doesn’t wait politely for the next scheduled collection before it starts to smell.

Handled properly, most of it has somewhere better to go than landfill. At FOOTT, we provide waste, recycling and liquid waste services across Cobram and the surrounding Murray Valley district.

Food and organic waste collections
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Food waste and green organics are their own stream, and treating them as general waste is usually the most expensive way to deal with them. We collect food waste, green waste and organics alongside general waste, co-mingled recycling and a number of specialised streams. If you’re separating organics properly, that can mean smaller general waste bins, less frequent collections, or both.

The right setup depends on what you produce and when. A packing shed running hard through harvest has a very different profile to a café trading the same hours every week, and we’d rather build the service around that than average the two.

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Grease traps and liquid waste for food businesses

Any commercial kitchen or food processing operation will have pre-treatment equipment that needs emptying on a set interval, most often a grease trap. That interval usually isn’t yours to choose. It’s specified in your trade waste consent or agreement with the local water authority, and falling behind it can mean odours, blocked pipes and a compliance issue on top.

Our commercial liquid waste service covers grease trap pump-outs and other liquid waste streams, and we can schedule servicing ahead of your due date rather than after something goes wrong.

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Skip bins for sheds, orchards and building jobs

Between shed clean-outs, orchard redevelopment, packaging waste and ordinary building work, there’s usually something around a Cobram property that needs a bin. We have a range of bins covering different volumes and material types.

Size is the question most people lead with, but material matters more. Heavy loads such as soil and concrete, mixed loads, and anything that can’t go into general waste all change which bin suits the job. Tell us what you’re clearing, roughly how much of it there is and what the access is like, and we’ll sort out the rest.

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Septic tank cleaning in Cobram

Properties outside the sewer network rely on a septic system that keeps accumulating solids whether anyone is thinking about it or not. We provide septic tank cleaning for private and commercial systems across the district.

Two to five years between pump-outs is our general recommendation, but tank capacity and how heavily the system is used both move that. It’s worth setting the schedule around your own operation rather than borrowing someone else’s. Slow drains, gurgling plumbing, smells around the tank, saturated ground or anything backing up inside all suggest a look is overdue.

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Portable toilets for orchards, farms and worksites

Seasonal work puts people on properties that have no permanent amenities, sometimes a long way from the nearest building.

We supply portable toilets for agriculture, horticulture, construction, manufacturing and events, from single standard units through to trailer-mounted, all-abilities and larger event setups. For a hire running across a season, we can schedule cleaning, pump-outs and restocking so it’s handled without anyone needing to chase it.

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Returning containers in Cobram

We run a CDS Vic depot in Cobram where eligible cans, bottles and cartons carrying the 10-cent refund mark can be returned. Containers do need to be brought in to the depot, as we don’t run a CDS collection service.

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Bringing your waste streams together

This is where having one provider across several streams starts to pay off. A food business might need general waste collections, an organics service and regular grease trap pump-outs. An orchard could want bins through harvest plus site toilets for seasonal staff. A construction job needs skips and amenities at the same time.

Run separately, that’s three or four accounts, three or four invoices and a different phone number every time something needs to change. We can bring those requirements into a single arrangement where it makes sense for your site.

Local decisions, regional service

We’ve been operating since 1992, with the equipment and service range of a much larger waste company. The difference is proximity. We make our decisions in the region rather than interstate, and the people managing your service are the ones you can actually reach. For food and organic waste, grease trap servicing, skip bins, septic pump-outs or site toilets in Cobram, talk to us about what your operation needs.

Book a free waste audit

Organics going out as general waste is one of the more common things we find, and one of the easier ones to fix. We offer free waste audits to businesses around Cobram, existing customers included. One of our team comes out, reviews what you're currently sending where, and identifies opportunities to separate streams properly, right-size the bins and bring servicing into line with your seasonal peaks. There's no obligation. It's a look at your operation and a straight answer about what could work better.

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