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How to use your new food waste recycling service


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What can and can't be recycled in your food waste caddy

Yes please

  • all uneaten food and plate scrapings
  • dairy products, cheese, eggs and eggshells
  • bread, cakes, pastries
  • raw and cooked meat, bones
  • tea/coffee bags (including non-biodegradable) and coffee grounds
  • raw and cooked vegetables, fruit and peelings
  • raw and cooked fish, bones
  • rice, pasta, beans
  • soft-shelled shellfish and crustaceans like crabs and prawns 
  • uneaten wet and dry pet food 

No thank you

  • food packaging including ‘biodegradable’ packaging
  • plastic carrier bags unless you’re using one to line your caddy – see below
  • compostable takeaway cups, plates and bowls 
  • large amounts of liquid including milk, oils and fats
  • nappies, clinical waste, cat litter, dog poo or other pet waste
  • garden waste
  • hard-shelled shellfish like mussel shells, limpets and clams 
  • any other material that’s not food waste

How to use your food waste caddies 

1. Line your silver kitchen caddy to keep it clean if you want to

You don’t have to line your indoor caddy but if you’d like to, you can use any of the following: 

  • compostable liners
  • newspaper or paper bags
  • old carrier bags - not ‘bags for life’ as these can be reused for shopping
  • food packaging such as bread bags, frozen veg bags or cereal bags
  • used fridge and freezer storage bags
  • plastic bags bought on a roll

2. Empty your silver kitchen caddy into your green outdoor collection caddy 

Before collection, empty your silver kitchen caddy into your green outdoor caddy. You can empty your kitchen caddy into your outdoor caddy as often as you like. We recommend doing it when the liner is 3/4 full, if you’re using one, as it makes it easier to tie the top. 

3. Latch your green outdoor caddy shut for collection 

When you put your green caddy out for collection, pull the handle towards the front and down over the lid to close the latch securely. Make sure to put it out by 7am at the boundary of your property on your collection day every week. 

Remember

We collect food waste weekly and rubbish and recycling fortnightly on alternate weeks.
So put your caddy out with either:

  • your wheelie bin or protective sack on rubbish week, or
  • your coloured bags and black box on recycling week

Find your collection day, view and download your collection calendar 

On your recycling week, the same vehicle will collect your recycling and food waste. On your rubbish week, separate vehicles will collect your rubbish and food waste which may be at different times of the day.

Once collected, we take it to an anaerobic digester where it’s recycled into farm fertiliser to help grow more food, and energy to power homes.

Find out more from our contractor SUEZ 

 

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