FOI Request - Food Waste Collection Service

Request 101003351163

1.  Does your council currently offer a food waste collection service to its residents?

a)  What percentage of households in your council are provided with this food waste collection service?

b)  What type of food waste collection do you provide? [e.g. where do you collect the food waste from and how often]

c)  How long have you been providing a food waste collection service to residents?

If NO, please provide the following information:

2.  In line with the Environment Act 2021, when will you provide a food waste collection service to your residents?

3.  Please state the reason why you do not currently provide a food waste collection service to your residents?

Response 27-07-2023

1a) Approx. 98% of domestic households have access to a food waste collection service, with only some of our really rural properties and a few flatted areas not covered by the service

b) We have a combined food waste and garden waste collection for domestic properties, collected from kerbside in 140/240 litre bins, with a fortnightly collection

c) We initially offered food waste collections to our 4 major populated areas in 2012, with the service rolling out county wide from 2015