Food waste recycling

You can place all food waste in the green bin to be recycled; including meat, bones, dairy products, vegetables, cooked food, leftovers from dinner, tea bags, bread, fish and more.

• Request a kitchen food caddy
• Buy caddy liners
• Green bin household collection information

Food caddy

• You can use your caddy to easily collect your compostable waste and transfer your food waste from this in to the green bin to be collected
• You don’t have to use a caddy liner. You can use your caddy to collect food waste without a liner or you can place your food directly in to your green bin, or wrap food waste in newspaper
• Make sure you use a compostable caddy liner
• Compostable liners are widely available online and from supermarkets and local shops

Why should I put my food waste in my green bin?

• you will be doing your bit for the environment as well as saving taxpayers money
• If everyone in Warwickshire placed their food waste in their green bins rather than their black/grey bins, together we could save around £2 million every year
• Food waste is sent on to a huge heated composting facility and is recycled in to rich compost, which is used on local farmers fields
• Recycled food waste can be used on farmer’s fields as a soil improver, reducing the need for fertilisers – which can have a negative impact on the environment
• By recycling food waste, we can reduce the amount of greenhouse gases as there is less waste to be incinerated. Greenhouse gases are a major contributor to climate change

Last updated Monday, 28th February 2022