Food Waste Collection Service
Food Waste Collection Service - How It Works
The food waste collection service is a weekly collection service.
Kitchen Caddies and Caddy Liners
Your kitchen caddy helps you collect your food waste in the home.
To keep your kitchen caddy clean, you can use a compostable caddy liner or any other bag, newspaper, paper towels or kitchen roll. Please do not use black bin bags. Food waste can be put into your caddy loose too, if you prefer.
What To Put In Your Kitchen Caddy
Here's a list detailing what you can and cannot put in your food waste caddy:
| YES | NO |
| All uneaten food and plate scrapings | Packaging of any kind, including coffee pods and filters |
| Raw and cooked meat and fish, including bones | Glass |
| Tea bags and coffee grounds | Liquids such as milk, liquid fat or gravy |
| Fruit and vegetables including peelings, pips, stones and stalks | Oils such as used cooking oil |
| Out of date or mouldy food | Any material that is not food waste including cat litter or animal faeces, pet bedding, garden waste, cut flowers |
| Solidified cooking fat | |
| Dairy products such as cheese | |
| Bread, cakes and pastries | |
| Rice, pasta and beans | |
| Shellfish and seafood shells | |
| Eggs and eggshells | |
| Pet food |
Collection Day
If you have a kerbside caddy, put this out for collection at the edge of your property, by 7am on your collection day - remember it's a weekly collection service. Present the caddy with the lid closed and handle upright, as this locks the caddy lid and helps the collection team. Your kerbside caddy should be marked so it can be identified and the risk of it being mistaken or stolen will be reduced.
Your kerbside caddy will either be emptied directly into the vehicle, or into a spare wheeled bin the collection team use to make their collections more efficient. Our food waste collection vehicles can collect food waste directly from caddies, or from wheeled bins.
If you've been given a shared wheeled bin, the food waste collection team will collect this from your bin store area, and return it once its emptied.
If you want to check any of your waste collection days online, click here.