Ratepayers in two regional councils will foot a $2 million bill to dispose of thousands of tonnes of contaminated organic waste in Western Australia's South West region.

Bunbury Harvey Regional Council's (BHRC) Banksia Road Facility in Dardanup, 177 kilometres south of Perth, was central to the region's FOGO initiative, collecting household organic waste with a three-bin system and processing it into compost.

The facility stopped processing food and garden organics waste last December due to high levels of contamination.

City of Bunbury and the Shire of Harvey, which originally established BHRC to manage waste, have agreed to contribute up to $1 million each to remove the remaining contaminated stockpile.

BHRC will contribute a further $950,000 to the clean-up effort, according to co

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