Food waste collections have started

Published: Friday, June 14, 2024

  • Most households can now use the new service.  

  • You can also recycle your small electricals.  

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Residents, including Riaan age 8 and Neva age 6, have started using the new food waste service

All households with enough space at the front of their property for a food waste caddy – for example a front garden or driveway – have now received their new caddies and started using the service. Houses converted into more than four flats will get the service later this year.  
 
Here’s some handy tips about how you can recycle your food waste: 

  • On collection day place your brown caddy next to your rubbish and recycling bags, just inside the edge of your garden/property. 

  • Due to this new service, rubbish, recycling and food waste will be collected at different times, on collection day, up until 4 pm.  

  • Raw and cooked food waste can be put into the caddies, with the smaller silver one, emptied into the outdoor brown one as many times as needed during the week.

Once collected, food waste will be turned into renewable energy or compost for farmers.  
 
Here are a few handy tips, that we have already sent out in a booklet with the caddies:  

  • The brown caddy should be put out on collection day.  

  • The brown caddy is for outside, whilst the silver caddy lives in the kitchen. 

  • Closing the lid of the brown caddy, with the handle pulled down at the front of the caddy is the best way to keep it secure and tight.    

  • You have a starter pack of caddy liners to line your silver, indoor caddy.  
     

Read more about food waste collections  
 
Collection times  
You will also notice that on collection day, separate vehicles will collect their rubbish, recycling, food waste and small electricals. 
 
And as we move over to a new fleet of more efficient vehicles running on bio- fuel, in the coming weeks, this will result in a 90% reduction in carbon emissions.  

  • Rubbish, recycling, small electricals and food waste will be collected at different times, on the day, up until 4 pm. 

  • Food waste and small electricals could be collected at different times on collection day, up until 5pm, as crews get used to the new rounds, so don’t worry if that’s the case.   
     

If we miss any collections, residents can tell us after 4 pm on collection day through our online missed collection form.  

Small electrical collections   
Small electrical collections also started on Monday 10 June, on your normal collection day.  

Unwanted or broken small electrical items can be put out for recycling next to your black sacks and council recycling sacks.   
 
This includes anything with a plug, battery or cable up to the size of a four-slice toaster. We can accept anything up to 25cm (L), 25 cm (W) and 25 cm (H) in size.   
 
Use a plastic bag to put your small electricals in, if they have one, especially if they need to contain any leads. 
 
Residents who live in flats can make use of new recycling banks across the borough. 
 
Find out more about small electricals.