If you live in a communal property, you can find details about when your food waste collections will start and what goes in your caddy.
Food waste collections in flats will begin from Monday 30 March 2026. Your food waste will be collected on the same day each week. However, it might be on a different day to your other waste collections.
If your food waste is collected on your usual collection day, it may be at a different time to your other collections because a separate vehicle will collect it.
We will provide you with a free 5-litre kitchen caddy and orange-lidded communal food waste bin.
We will confirm how you will get your caddy in early 2026. You can also purchase your own kitchen caddy if you want to.
If you can't find your communal food bin, please get in touch with your landlord. If you don't have a landlord or your are a council tenant, you can get in touch with our bins and waste team on 01227 947 860.
Most people find keeping their caddy under the sink, next to the kitchen bin or on the worktop is practical.
Not if you empty your kitchen caddy regularly into your communal food waste bin and make sure to tie up the liners. Separating your food waste not only means less smells in your kitchen bin, but there will also be lots more room in your communal general waste bin.
The communal food waste bin has an orange lid to help stop any smells getting out and any pests getting in.
It takes seconds to recycle your food. Just line your kitchen caddy, scrape your scraps into it and, when full, put the tied up bag into your communal food waste bin outside as often as you need. We’ll do the rest.
You can recycle all your food waste, including scrapings, peelings, raw and cooked out of date food.
You can find out more about what goes in your food waste bin.
Yes - just a single recycled banana peel can generate enough electricity to fully charge your smartphone twice. So, even the smallest of scraps can make a real difference.
No – in fact it’s cheaper to recycle food waste. Because food waste is mainly made up of water, processing it as part of your general waste uses lots more energy.
This makes recycling a more energy and cost efficient way of disposing of your food.
Yes. We will still collect your communal general waste bin if it has food in it, but we’re asking everyone to do their bit by recycling their food waste.