Food Waste Collections

Did You Know?

• £10 billion is spent on buying and then throwing away good food every year in the UK

• We throw away 4.1 million tonnes of food waste every year, all of this could be avoided

• One quarter of this is untouched and unopened!!!

• Food waste can form up to 30% of the average rubbish bin contents     

This level of food waste can cost the average family between £400 and £600 a year.  It really is time to look in your bins and see how you can save a small fortune! 

For the food waste that can not be avoided, Eastleigh Borough Council have decided to do something useful with it! 

We are now collecting this seperately for composting. Until now food waste has been buried in landfill or incinerated but Eastleigh Borough Council hope to make this a thing of the past!

From the beginning of December 2006 trials were carried out to enable some residents to have their kitchen waste collected for composting from the kerbside!  The two trials were a great sucess and the scheme is now offered to 10,000 households across the borough.  Plans are in place to extend the service to the centre of Eastleigh during the Autumn followed by Bishopstoke, Fair Oak and Horton Heath soon after.  The remainder of the borough will be scheduled in due course

As a result of the changes, households will no longer have to dispose of their kitchen waste into the black bin. Instead, they will be able to put their food waste - including peelings, bones, tea bags, eggshells and shredded paper - into a new brown kitchen waste bin ready for its weekly collection.  Each participating home has a smaller kitchen caddy and a trial pack of liners they can use to store the waste in before transferring it to the new brown kerbside kitchen waste bin.

This waste is then processed through an indoor composting facility to produce a soil conditioner.

• Food waste -  further details on the service and how it works ( pdf 1.1Mb opens in new window)

Please note, the start date listed in this leaflet is not for all areas. Containers recently delivered to Boyatt Wood, Bishopstoke, Fair Oak, Horton Heath and Botley are due to be collected as from the week commencing 8^th December.

Where to purchase food waste bags

• Hedge End Post Office
• Co-Operative Hedge End
• Best One Newsagents, Bishopstoke,
• Spar, Hursley Road, Chandler's Ford
• Curtis Bros D.I.Y Ltd, Central Precinct, Chandler's Ford
• Longs - Greengrocers, 31 Market Street, Eastleigh
• Choccy Box Newsagents 92 High Street, Eastleigh
• Chandler's Ford Pet and Aquatics, 3 Falkland Court, Falkland Road, Chandler's Ford