Food Waste Collection Service
Weekly food waste collections will start from 13 October 2025.
Every household is being given a grey 5 litre kitchen caddy to help with the collection of food waste and scraps in the home.
From 13 October, we will collect food waste from grey 23 litre kerbside caddies every week, using our new fleet of specialist collection vehicles.
Small 140 litre grey-lidded wheeled bins will be provided to residents who live in flats or other accommodation with bin stores, and who already share their waste and recycling bins.
All of the collected food waste will be processed at an anaerobic digestion facility where it will be broken down by micro-organisms in the absence of oxygen. The methane-rich biogas generated during this process can be used as a fuel and the remaining product can be used as a nutrient rich fertiliser.
We are introducing this new collection service as the Environment Act 2021 requires all councils to have food waste collections in place by 1 April 2026. We are introducing the collections five months earlier in a positive step towards transforming recycling in the area.
