Home Composting
The best way to recycle raw fruit and vegetable waste like peelings or stalks is to set up a compost bin or heap at home. You get compost for your garden and no energy is used to collect or process the waste.
- visit Recycle Now to find out more about how to start home composting
- visit Get Composting to buy home compost bins, including occasional offers for our residents
Green bin waste
You can put all food waste, including cooked food, meat, fish, dairy and bones, in your green bin to be composted. You can collect food waste in your kitchen in a lidded container like an ice cream tub, or a kitchen caddy, and then add it to your green bin.
Wrap food waste in newspaper or put it in paper bags before adding it to your green bin – this will help keep flies off it, preventing maggots. Paper liners can be bought from online retailers or some supermarkets. Search online for 'paper caddy liners'.
Please only use 100% paper caddy liners or newspaper. Do not use compostable or biodegradable ‘plastic’ corn-starch bags in the green bins, even if they are EN13432 certified or display the ‘compostable seedling’ logo. They do not compost quickly enough for our fast composting process. This includes brands such as BioBag, or re-used bags from supermarket vegetable or magazine sleeves.
Find out more about what you can put in your green bin on our what goes in which bin page.