Every peel, core, crust or tea bag is worth recycling!

Did you spot our advert on TV over Christmas? Our food waste participation is very high, compared to the national average – we know around 7 in 10 households regularly put their food waste out for recycling. But there’s always more we can all do.

We’re encouraging everyone to do their bit when it comes to food waste recycling. Whether that’s doing a bit more, like recycling food waste that’s gone-off before it’s been eaten. Recycling plate scrapings or simply starting to recycle food waste if you don’t already.  

With many people starting or get back to recycling their food waste, we’d thought it would be timely to remind everyone of how to get started with recycling – it really is simple!

Get started in 3 simple steps.

• Step one - line your kitchen food waste caddy with newspaper or a compostable bag.
• Step two - place all food waste in your kitchen caddy.
• Step three - once full, tie up the bag, or wrap up the newspaper and place it in your outdoor food waste bin ready for collection.

Top tip to keep things clean, use a piece of kitchen paper in the base of your kitchen caddy to stop moisture building up.

All food waste can be recycled, meat and bones (raw or cooked), veg, egg shells, peelings, bread, cheese, plate scrapings or gone-off food and tea bags can all go in the food waste recycling bin.

Remember to empty out of date food from the packaging to recycle it.

No amount is too small, every scrap is worth recycling so that it can be turned into clean green energy or fertiliser.