The above video shows you how to use your weekly food waste recycling collection.
To find out your collection day, please put your postcode or street name into ‘Services in your area’ in the top right hand side of this page or use the Services in your area page and enter your postcode or street name.
To order a free black bin or kitchen caddy for your food waste, please contact Council Connect on 01225 39 40 41 (councilconnect@bathnes.gov.uk) or visit your local Council Connect Office.
Please go to How to order a container for more information on the kitchen caddy, black bin and other containers.
We recommend that you wrap your food waste in newspaper or put it into a compostable food waste liner before putting it in your black food waste bin. Please go to Food waste liners outlets to find details of local and online suppliers.
What do we collect?
We can collect any raw or uncooked food including all of the following shown below. We recommend that you put your food waste in a compostable food waste liner (showing the seedling logo shown here) or wrap it in newspaper first.
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Meat and fish |
raw and cooked – including bones |
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Fruit and vegetables |
raw and cooked |
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All dairy products |
including milk and cheese |
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Bread, cakes and pastries |
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Rice, pasta and beans |
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Uneaten food |
from your plates or dishes |
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Tea bags and coffee grounds |
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Unopened packets of food past the 'Use by' date |
Please remove any packaging first |
Please do NOT put any plastic bags, packaging, liquids, oil or fat in with your food waste.
Please make sure that you put your food waste out by 7am on your collection day. If you need to report a missed collection, please go to Report a missed collection.
If you need help with your collections please go to Need help with your collections?
We collect on all Bank Holidays except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. For more information please go Bank Holiday collections.
Recycling your food waste helps to save energy and resources. It also helps to reduce the impact of climate change. It is cheaper for us to recycle than to send waste to landfill.
To find out where we send your food waste for recycling and what happens to it, please go to What happens to the materials we recycle.
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