Residents can order two types of food waste caddies from the council’s website – a five-litre caddy for indoor use and a 23-litre caddy for outdoor use.
The food waste should be deposited into the caddies loose or in a plastic or biodegradable bin liner ahead of 6:30am on their collection day.
The council has thanked residents for their support of the scheme. Councillor Chris Watts, Swindon borough council’s cabinet member for highways and the environment, said: “Thank you to everyone who has supported our new food waste collection service since it has been introduced, helping us achieve a greener Swindon.
“We want to be as responsible as we can and, although we’re in a great position in that we send so little waste to landfill, we could make things even better if we recycled more of our waste, including both food and plastics.”
Improving the sorting of other recycling
The council has also used the opportunity to encourage its residents to correctly sort the rest of their recycling.
All paper and card products can be put into one box – including broken up cardboard, non-metallic cards and wrapping paper, junk mail, leaflets, catalogues, magazines, newspapers booklets and envelopes.
All glass products – including bottles and jars – go in another box and all plastics and metals go into a reusable blue bag.
The council currently does not collect plastic films for – example plastic bags and wrappings – and so residents must either take these to the collection point at their local supermarket or put it in their general waste bin.
The council recently invested in a new recycling operator and baler at its Waterside depot which it said will enable improved sorting of plastics and metals.
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