Join the food waste revolution in Somerset
Together with our recycling and rubbish collections contractor, SUEZ we are encouraging everyone to recycle their food waste
Recycle your food waste in three simple steps
Step one
Line your food caddy with newspaper or a compostable bag.
Step two
Place all food waste in your kitchen caddy.
Step three
Once full, place in the brown food bin ready for your weekly recycling collection.
Yes Please
- Raw and cooked food
- Meat, fish, dairy and bones
- Tea bags and coffee grounds
- Pet food
No Thanks
- Flowers or garden waste
- Pet waste
- Liquids or cooking oils
- Any packaging, including compostable containers
Pledge today - Small changes, big impact
Don’t wait, commit to recycling your food waste, join our food waste recycling revolution and you could win a year’s supply of caddy liners.
Make your pledgeWhy recycling food waste matters
We are encouraging everyone to recycle their food waste because it’s better for the environment and cheaper for us to process.
- Using the specially designed kitchen caddy can reduce smells, and it gets taken away more often.
- Food waste get turned into something useful. It is used to generate electricity and fertiliser for farms.
What is food waste and what happens to it?
We know that some things aren’t normally eaten – like peel, cores, eggshells and bones. This food waste is known as unavoidable.
Food waste that could have been saved and eaten is known as avoidable food waste. This includes things like plate scrapings, food thrown out in its packaging and gone-off food.
Food that is collected from our food waste bins is sent to an anaerobic digestion facility near Bridgwater. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is like a stomach, it uses micro-organisms to break down food waste in the absence of oxygen, inside an enclosed system. The methane given off during this process is collected and converted to biogas and used to generate clean, green electricity, heat or transport fuels. It also creates nutrient-rich digestate used for fertiliser for agriculture.
Anaerobic digestion is not the same process as commercial composting, which is why compostable packaging is not accepted in your food waste collection.
