Recycle Food Waste
Your weekly collection service
Cut waste, help
the environment
and save!
You can now recycle all food waste in
your weekly collection service from
Colchester Borough Council, using the
kit we have provided.
Recycling food waste is quick and easy.
It could reduce your black bag rubbish
by 30%, and the smells and pests often
associated with these items.
By recycling food waste you can help make Colchester a greener
place. The food waste collected is turned in to green energy to
power homes, saving money too by processing it this way.
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Your action will keep food waste out of landfill sites. This is important
to stop methane being released. Methane harms the atmosphere 21
times more than carbon dioxide emissions from burning fuels for our
homes and cars.
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www.colchester.gov.uk/foodwaste
Save money too! The average family throws away
£50 worth of food a month, two thirds of which could have been eaten.
That’s up to £600 every year!
By seeing what you’re throwing out and making the most of practical
tips to cut waste, you can get more from your weekly shop.
Start recycling
food waste
today!
Quick and easy!
Three simple steps
1
You can recycle all your food waste, including raw or uncooked food
and uneaten food from your plate.
Keep your kitchen caddy on your
worktop or next to your other bins.
You can line it with a corn starch or
paper liner, or a sheet of newspaper.
Please do not use plastic or
degradable carrier bags.
2
What food can I recycle?
Meat, fish and shellfish – raw and cooked,
including bones and shells
Fruit and vegetables – raw and cooked
Dairy products such as cheese and eggs,
including shells
Bread, cakes and pastries
Rice, pasta and beans
Uneaten food from your plates and dishes
Tea bags and coffee grounds
Put all your food waste in your
kitchen caddy. Leftovers from your
plate, peelings, bones, food past its
use by date, gone off food and
more can be recycled.
When it is full, tie the liner and put
it in your external food waste bin.
3
Keep your food waste bin outside
and out of direct sunlight. To help
contain smells and stops pests, the
outside bin has a lock-tight handle.
You can write your house
name or number on it to help
the collection crew return it to
your property.
Each week put this external bin on
your property boundary by 7am on
your collection day, alongside your
other recycling.
No thank you
Packaging of any sort
Plastic bags
Liquids
Oil or fat
Pet food,
litter or waste
Other recycling
and rubbish –
please use the
correct containers
Mr C, from Stanway, started
recycling food waste in
Colchester’s collection trial.
“The food waste collection has definitely
been a success in our household. I had no
idea how much food we were wasting and
throwing away. It’s certainly helped cutting
down on smells and the amount we put into
our black bags has reduced significantly.
“The whole family has got into the
recycling routine, both with food and other
items, to do our bit for the environment.”
Clean and fresh
Wash food waste bins, kitchen surfaces and hands regularly. Bins are
dishwasher safe to 60°C.
Need more liners?
Did you know? We throw
away more food waste
from our homes than
packaging waste every year.
Make the most of the food you buy and
your food waste collection. Recycle all
your food waste every week.
Food waste can be put loose in your bins or wrapped in newspaper.
Mike, from Colchester town, said: “We already compost our fruit
If you want to keep using liners always choose
ones with the seedling ‘compostable’ logo.
and veg scraps but now we’ll be able to cut down our rubbish bags even
more by recycling all our bones, leftovers and other food items as well.
“It feels good to know that we’re doing our bit for the environment by
only putting one rubbish bag out every few weeks.”
Buy low cost rolls of liners from approved
stockists in the Council’s borough-wide retail
network. Visit www.colchester.gov.uk/foodwastebags
to find your nearest local retailer and other outlets.
Home composting
Your food waste collection
complements home composting.
Whether you’re using a compost bin or
heap already, or want to start, it’s a great
way to turn uncooked fruit and vegetable
peelings in to soil improver, along with
your garden prunings.
Have you spotted
a Binling?
Binlings love it when you recycle food waste!
Check out ‘Colchester’s food revolution’
to find out why, along with food waste
recycling tips – ‘ColchesterCBC’ on
Great for your garden
whether it’s large or small.
Find out more and buy bins at
www.colchester.gov.uk/composting
The food waste recycling service for Colchester
residents follows the success of a year-long
collection trial with over 7,000 homes, and a
£2.3million funding award from the DCLG.
For more information on recycling all food waste, along with other ways
to reduce and recycle your rubbish visit www.colchester.gov.uk/recycling,
email [email protected] or call 01206 282700.
Plus sign up for the Council’s e-Courier newsletter and follow
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