Bath & North East Somerset Council - Food Waste Recycling Collections

Food Waste Recycling Collections

Waste caddy with food waste

Running out of compostable liners for your caddy? Please see question 19 below for a list of local stockists and online/mail order suppliers.

In October 2010, we introduced weekly food waste recycling collections to all households who have access to the weekly green box recycling collection. This  followed requests from residents and will help to reduce the amount of waste we send to landfill.

Food waste in landfill sites creates damaging methane gas which contributes to climate change, and as the cost of sending waste to landfill is increasing each year, we need to recycle as much of our waste as we can.

You can now recycle all your raw and cooked food waste, including scrapings from your plate, in your two new food waste containers. By using the lockable outside food waste bin, you should find the new service cleaner and more hygienic, particularly if you find your black sacks often ripped open by birds or animals.

food waste bins

For more information about the new service, please read our Frequently Asked Questions below or visit us at one of our many road shows 

Click on our video above to see practical hints and tips on how you can use your new containers to recycle your food waste from home.

1. Why is recycling our food waste important?

2. How do the collections work?

3. What types of food can you recycle?

4. When will the collections start?

5. How hygienic are the new collections? – I’m worried about rats, flies, smells… 

6. I’m worried about handling my food waste

7. I don’t produce enough food waste

8. What if I can’t be bothered to recycle my food waste?

9. I already compost my food waste at home so how will the collection help me?

10. I’ve heard that we should all try to throw less food waste away to start with

11. What will happen to the food waste you collect?

12. Can I put cat or dog food in my food waste collection?

13. Can I put liquids and cooking oil in my food waste collection?

14. I don’t have any newspaper – can I line my caddy or food waste bin with other paper or cardboard?

15. I don’t have much food waste so can I just put out the smaller kitchen caddy for collection?

16.  I have a big family/live in a large shared house - can I have more than one food waste bin?

17. I live in a flat with a Mini Recycling Centre (communal wheelie bin recycling system). Why can’t you collect my food waste?

18. Why can’t we send our food waste to feed pigs, like we used to?

19. Where can I buy compostable liners for my kitchen caddy?

Contact Details for this page:
Team/Service:
Waste Services 
Telephone:
01225 39 40 41 
Fax:
01225 47 78 09 
Minicom:
01225 47 73 09 
Address:
Keynsham Town Hall, Temple Street, Keynsham, BS31 1ED