Food Waste

All of your food waste should fit into the existing green wheeled bin. As garden waste reduces in the winter there will be plenty of space for food waste, and no need to have an additional bin. Any requests for additional green bins are subject t...

Yes, all residents are encouraged to recycle their food waste by placing it in the green wheeled bin. However, we understand that some residents will not want to leave particularly smelly items such as fish and chicken carcasses in their garden b...

Residents should not use these bags to prevent potential contamination. Food waste can be placed inside the green wheeled bins loose, or wrapped in newspaper. There are a variety of different types of these styles of bags available, some...

Yes. Please remember food waste can be placed inside the green wheeled bin loose or wrapped in newspaper.

Yes you can wrap food waste using kitchen towel / roll.

Please continue to home compost. However, please note that those items not suitable for home composting such as cooked food (rice, pasta, bread), cheese, meat and fish can now be recycled through the green wheeled bin.

At this moment only households who have a green wheeled bin are being offered the food waste collection. Households on a weekly black or green sack collection should continue to put food waste in the sacks provided.

The website www.lovefoodhatewaste.com (external link) has lots of tops tips to help you reduce the amount of unnecessary waste produced.

Packaging of any sort including cardboard sleeves, plastic film and food trays Plastic bags Liquids, oil or liquid fat

The combined food and garden waste will be sent to the new waste treatment plant at Thornton, where it will be composted indoors to create high quality compost. The compost will be suitable for use on parks, gardens and agricultural land.