Food waste collections

We collect food waste in your green caddy from your house every week.

Your food waste caddies

Keep your small silver kitchen caddy inside. The larger green caddy should be kept outside, ideally out of the sun. Find out what you can put in your food waste caddy.

Please ensure that you do not put your silver caddy inside your green caddy for collection. Only the green caddy should be placed at the kerbside for collection.

Lining your caddies

Line your small kitchen caddy with a compostable cornstarch bag, which you can buy from most supermarkets. Or you can line the caddy with paper such as kitchen towel, newspaper or a few pages from a magazine. Please do not put food waste in plastic bags as these are not compostable and will contaminate the recycling.

Using your caddies

Put raw or cooked food, or uneaten leftovers into your caddy. Once it is full, empty it into your larger green caddy. If you live in a flat, empty your kitchen caddy into the wheeled food waste bin in the communal waste area. See our guide to using the kitchen and kerbside caddies.

Food waste collections

Your green food waste caddy will be emptied weekly. Please ensure that you do not present your silver caddy for collection as this is designed to be kept in your property. Help prevent unwanted pests by making sure the lid is locked tightly closed. Put your green food waste caddy out for collection, with your rubbish or recycling bin, by 7am on your waste collection day.

If we have any major problems with collections we'll tweet about it. You can follow us on Twitter or sign up to our text notification service.

How can I reduce my food waste?

• Make a shopping list so you only buy what you need.
• Keep your fridge cool (1-5 degrees) and chilled food will stay fresh for longer.
• Think of other recipes you could use left-over food for, such as soups, stir-frys or packed lunches.

For more information visit the Love Food Hate Waste website.

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Page owner: Carolyn Jarvis-Grogan. Last updated: 21/03/2013 16:41