Recycling your food waste is one of the simplest ways to make a positive difference to the environment. Your food waste can be recycled into renewable energy and nutrient rich fertiliser.
Plus, recycling your food waste helps reduce the amount of rubbish in your black bin, making waste collection and disposal more cost-effective.
Your food waste will be taken to a local food waste facility to be processed. The process produces bio gas, which can be used to generate heat and electricity for the National Grid and what's left is used as a bio-fertiliser for local farms.
How to recycle your food waste
Recycling your food waste is easy, put a liner in your indoor kitchen caddy and empty your food waste into it. When your kitchen food caddy is full, tie the liner securely and put it into your outdoor kerbside caddy.
Find answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about your food waste collection service below.
All households in Halton have been provided with a small kitchen caddy and a year's supply of liners as well as a larger kerbside caddy with a lid that locks to keep pests out.
Here are some of the items you can put in your food waste caddy;
🍗 Raw and cooked meat and fish, including bones
🍎 Raw and cooked fruit and vegetables and their peelings
🍟 Fast food, takeaway and ready meal leftovers
🫖 Tea leaves, bags and coffee grounds
🧀 Dairy products like cheese, eggs and egg shells
🍪 Baked goods like bread, cake, pastries, pies and biscuits
🐾 Pet food
🫘 Rice, pasta, noodles, beans and pulses
Please DO NOT put the following items into your food caddy
Please do not put any kind of;
🥡 Packaging
🥛 Liquids (such as milk or oil)
❌ Any non food products
Your food waste will be collected on your usual collection day each week. We will use a separate vehicle to collect your food waste. Your caddy can be left out until it has been emptied.
Remember there is no amount too small. The best thing we can do with our food is enjoy it but some waste like banana skins, tea bags and bones are unavoidable and can all be recycled.
You’re already producing food waste, it’s going in your black bin, so this is just a different container. It’s important to reduce the amount of food waste going to disposal, food waste produces methane which is a harmful greenhouse gas.
Food waste will be collected every week in Halton on your usual collection day.
The changes are being brought forward by the UK government, who consulted local authorities and businesses.
If you empty your kitchen caddy regularly into the outside food waste recycling bin and tie up the liners, you shouldn't notice a smell.
No, food collections will be included in the standard waste collection service.
It is a legal requirement for food waste to be collected separately at the kerbside. Recycling your food waste is better for the environment and will be used to generate natural forms of energy and fertiliser or soil conditioner which can be used in farming.
No. Our garden waste is composted out in the open using a method called windrow composting. Food waste needs to be heat treated, to make sure there are no pathogens that can be transferred to people or livestock. This is a more expensive method of treatment and windrow composting is a more environmentally friendly method of treating garden waste.