You can now recycle all your food waste

Published: Friday, June 21, 2024

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All raw and cooked food can now be recycled in your food waste caddies

All households with enough space at the front of their property for a food waste caddy – for example a front garden or driveway – can now recycle all of their cooked and food waste. Houses converted into more than four flats will get the service later this year.   
 
Eligible households can now recycle all food waste, using their outdoor brown caddy and indoor silver caddy. This includes all, 

  • Plate scrapings 

  • Bread and pastries 

  • Fruit and vegetables 

  • Meat and bones 

  • Eggs and eggshells 

  • All dairy products 

  • Tea bags and coffee grounds 

  • Fish, shellfish and fish bones.  
     

Read more for what food waste can and cannot be recycled.  
 
Rubbish and recycling collections 
Here are some handy tips about putting out your rubbish, recycling, food waste and small electricals: 

  • Put your rubbish, recycling, food waste and small electricals out for collection on your usual day, or the evening before. On collection day, rubbish and recycling collections may be earlier than you are used to.

  • If you have your own dustbin you can put your rubbish and recycling bags in it for collection.  

  • Please report missed collections after 4pm on collection day.  
     

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

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

  • 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. 
     

  • 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   
 

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.