Food waste is collected weekly on your normal collection day.
Every household has a 5 litre food waste caddy for your kitchen and a 25 litre kerbside food waste bin.
The small food waste caddy is to help you to collect your left over food from your kitchen and to transport it to the larger food waste bin for collection. The larger food waste bin has a lockable lid to keep food waste secure and to prevent any problems with smells or vermin.
Householders need to put their food waste bin out at their normal collection point with the lid in the locked position by 7am on collection day.
What can I put in my food waste bin?
- Meat and fish – raw and cooked
- Cooked bones
- Dairy products including eggs, egg shells, butter and cheese
- Raw and cooked vegetables and fruit
- Bread, cakes and pastries
- Rice, pasta and beans
- Uneaten food from your plates and dishes
- Tea and coffee grounds
- Cat and dog food
You can wrap your food waste in newspaper or you can purchase compostable bags from local shops.
Compostable bags must carry the compostable logo.
Compostable Bags are available from the following local shops:
- South Gloucestershire Composting Website - www.caddyliners.com
- Morrisons – Cribbs Causeway & Yate
- MS-2 Store – 75 Quakers Road, Downend
- MS-2 Store - 82 Firgrove Crescent, Yate
- Sainsbury’s – Kingswood & Stoke Gifford
- Pound Road Stores - Kingswood
- Harvest Store – Wotton-Under-Edge
- Bristol Bin Cleaning Co Ltd. - web-site address: www.cleaner-bins.com -
Tel no: 07815 314161 or 01179 314161 - Bradley Stoke
- Wilkinsons - Kingswood
- Hawkins, High Street, Thornbury
- Walkers News, Shortwood Road, Pucklechurch
- Glevum Paper Liners (www.glevumpaperliners.co.uk) for both compostable and paper liners
- Greens Newsagents, Beesmoor Road, Frampton Cotterell
- HRD Hardware, 20 Westcourt Drive, Oldland Comon
- Hulbert, Fruit & Veg, 3 Greenhill Parade, Alveston
What can't I put in my food waste bin?
- Uncooked bones
- Plastic bags and packaging of any sort
- Polystyrene
- Liquids
- Any oil and fat (including solid fats such as lard)
- Animal faeces
- Cardboard
- Nappies
- Pet litter
- Animal bedding
- Tetra Pak containers
You cannot use plastic or biodegradable bags that are not compostable to put your food waste in. They must have the compostable logo printed on them.
What happens to my food waste?
Environmentally, food waste when disposed of in landfill is harmful as it generates methane, one of the worst green house gases. With the introduction of our new weekly food waste collection service, food waste will be composted using an in vessel composter and the resulting compost is used to improve soil on farmland.