Brown food waste caddy
Your brown-lidded food waste caddy is collected weekly. Please make sure it is at the boundary of your property by 7am on your collection day. You can wrap food waste in newspaper, thin card, or use a compostable bag.
What you can put in your brown food waste caddy
Here are the things that you can put in your caddy:
- Fruit and vegetable peelings
- Cooked and uncooked food
- Meat and bones
- Plate scrapings and leftovers
- Eggshells
- Teabags and coffee grounds
- Dead house plants / flowers
- Food stained paper and card - e.g. pizza boxes, fish & chip paper
What you can not put in your brown food waste caddy
Here are the things that you cannot put in your caddy:
- Dry recycling - This can be recycled in your green recycling bin
- Non-recycling - Please put this in your black waste bin
- Plastic / degradable bags - These can be recycled in your green recycling bin
- Garden waste - Please either take this to your local recycling centre or put in your garden waste bin
- Glass - This can be recycled in your green recycling bin
- Tin cans - These can be recycled in your green recycling bin
- Foil - This can be recycled in your green recycling bin