English councils to get £295m for implementing weekly food waste collections
Councils in England are to receive up to £295 million to support them to introduce weekly food waste collections, the Government has announced.
New funding will cover the provision of food waste caddies for homes and specialist collection vehicles and will be targeted at local authorities that have yet to put collections in place.
Recycling minister Robbie Moore said: “Weekly food waste collections are a central plank in delivering a simpler, easier recycling system for all.
“It will help to stop food waste heading to landfill and support our goals of tackling both waste and climate change.
Let me see - recycling minister Robbie Moore says a more complex domestic waste system is a simpler, easier recycling system for all. I bet a bureaucrat with a grudge fed him with that line to make him look like a plank. It worked.
I wonder if people who don't have food waste will be eligible for refunds?
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Our food waste management consists of walking down the garden and dumping it into the compost bin.
We don't even have to spend cold winter hours turning the compost - there's a wee beastie that lives in there and does it for us. A rat, presumably.
dearieme - much of ours goes into the composter too, although I have to turn it every now and then. Some goes out for the birds and that's about it.
Perhaps we should save our food waste all year and have a massive bonfire on 5 November, just to drop a hint?
My Council is about to start a food waste scheme.The thing is, they have not provided a definition of food waste.
Potato peelings, apple cores ,tea leaves ? But what about the chicken carcass or the chop bones or the remains of last nights pizza ?
As a boy I used to take the vegetable scraps across the rod to the neighbours pig bin for him to boil up as feed for the pigs in the sty at the bottom of his garden.
What on Earth are they going to do with food waste, that helps to prevent climate change?
As I don't have a composter or any need for one, any food waste we have will continue to go in the red bin (Our food waste is usually bones and fat from all the climate change causing animals we eat)
Our local authority already has this system. I've grumbled about it on here before. I have to scrape big plates into a little plastic caddy fitted with a bio-degradable bag which I have to remember to buy. When full, I have to take it downstairs and transfer the (often by then biodegraded) bag into another caddy, which sits in the hot sun for up to a week. Then, if the foxes don't manage to get it open and strew it all over the road (which happens to neighbours) the Council collect it every Tuesday morning. Then I have to collect the caddy, hold my nose, and try to flush the worst of the residue down the toilet, before washing it out and bleaching it to remove the gooey layer of brown putrescine-infused slop.
So yes, it's made my life a good deal easier. Wouldn't hear a word against it.
DJ - good idea, we could stuff the guy with it to create a more realistic aroma.
John - I assume the whole lot goes in, including bones and teabags. That's the case in holiday destinations we've used which have food bins.
Bucko - I think it's just promotional hype. Even if they shove the food waste into anaerobic digesters, it's a costly way to generate methane and there is still a residual sludge to dispose of.
Sam - when we use those degradable bags on holiday, we've noticed that they start to leak quite quickly. On holiday it isn't a major problem as we just drop them in a bin provided by the owner. That bin smells quite strongly of Jeyes Fluid or something similar.
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