Why are you starting to collect food waste?
Between 30% and 40% of the household rubbish put into our grey bins in Reading is food waste.
We're starting weekly household food waste collections. The service could start as early as October 2020.
The benefits include:
- Composted food waste can be turned into electricity fertiliser for farming.
- Composting food instead of burying it in landfill reduces the amount of methane (a powerful greenhouse gas) released into the atmosphere.
- It's cheaper - every time we compost a lorry load of food instead of sending it to landfill it saves £100.
- Separating food waste means you have more room in your black bin to put things you cannot recycle.
In this area
- Why are you starting to collect food waste?
- How will the food waste service work?
- When are the food waste collections starting?
- When will I get my food waste bin?
- Will my bin collection day change?
- What can I put in my food waste bin?
- Will my food waste bin smell, or attract insects and vermin?
- What happens to the food waste?
- Can I compost my own food?
- What do I need to do?