New Separate Weekly Food Waste Collection Service
West Berkshire Council are rolling out a new separate weekly food waste collection service to all households across the district. For households with individual bins (kerbside collection), collections will start the week commencing 31 October 2022. For residents who have shared bins collected from a bin store the service starts week commencing 28 November 2022.
The collection will be weekly on the same day as recycling and rubbish collections making it the most frequently collected bin.
West Berkshire Council have already begun delivering the containers to residents, comprising of an inside (grey) and outside (green) food waste caddy along with a roll of compostable liners and an instruction leaflet. Deliveries for properties who receive a kerbside collection are continuing until 28 October 2022, while properties who have shared bins will receive their containers by the 25 November 2022. Please note properties who share bins will not receive an outside (green) caddy, but will receive a purple bin to share with neighbours.
You can find out about how to use the new service by watching a video at Food Waste Collection Service in West Berkshire - YouTube (opens in new window) or reading the instruction leaflet (pdf opens in new window) which residents will receive with their caddies.
West Berkshire Council would encourage all residents to use this service as recent analysis has shown that black bins for general waste are on average made up of 25%+ of food waste.
For more information and frequently asked questions about the service please visit www.westberks.gov.uk/foodwaste (opens in new window)