We’re currently working on plans to introduce weekly food waste collections across the borough later this year.
These will boost the amount you will recycle and reduce the weight of your grey bin by up to a third.
When the service starts, you’ll be able to put your fruit and vegetable peelings, plate scrapings, tea bags, egg shells, bones and more into your caddy for collection. The food waste will then be turned into greener energy and fertilizer.
We’ll keep you updated on our progress to introduce the service but, before collections start, we will deliver to every household a small caddy for inside your home and a larger lockable outside caddy, which our crews will empty each week. Residents who share communal waste bins will also receive a small caddy for inside which can be used to take their food waste to their communal food waste bin.
As we introduce the new service, we’ll continue to collect your paper, card, tins, cans, aerosols and plastic bottles in your green recycling bin and glass box fortnightly and your grey waste bin weekly.
While we prepare to introduce the service, we have put together answers to some of the more general questions that you may have about this new service below.
Now is a great time to start thinking about the amount of food waste you throw away and whether this could be avoided to help save you money and cut your carbon.
The average family chucks away £83 of edible food waste each month. You can get help to reduce this by visiting Love Food hate waste page for top money-saving tips and budget friendly recipes. There’s also lots of advice on how to make your food last longer.
Sign up today and earn Green Points by taking action to cut your food waste with Hampshire County Council. The hero with the most green points at the end of the month can choose from a selection of prizes including a £20 Love2Shop or M&S voucher!
You will be provided with easy activities to help cut down your food waste, such as:
Food waste is any waste generated through the preparation of food, or where there are leftovers after a meal. This includes:
The recycling process turns food waste into a Biogas, which contains both natural gas, which is a greener energy source than fossil fuels, and valuable soil products such as nutrient-rich compost and a liquid fertiliser.
Under the Environment Act 2021 all local authorities in England must provide weekly food waste collections by April 2026. By doing so we want to improve our recycling rate which is currently 29% and far below the average in the UK.
From October 2025, every week on the same day as your waste and recycling kerbside collection services.
Yes, every property will be provided with a small container to use within the kitchen and a larger caddy to put alongside their waste or recycling bins for collection.
Every property will be provided with a small container to use within the kitchen. We will provide a communal food waste wheeled bin for bin stores. Each site is currently being reviewed on a case-by-case basis to ensure we provide the right food waste containers for that site.
Hampshire County Council is proposing to upgrade the recycling processing plant, meaning in the future we will be able to collect more recyclable items including plastic pots, tubs and trays and food and drink cartons.
The introduction of food waste and plans for more items to be recycled in the future means far less will need to go in grey rubbish bins.
Therefore, it has also been agreed by Cabinet, that from September 2026, along with the weekly food waste collection, our crews will collect the grey bins one week and green recycling bins and glass crates the next.
As we move towards the introduction of food waste collections next year, October 2025, we will provide more information through
We will also contact residents directly with more detailed information closer to the start of the service to keep residents up to date about the changes.
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