WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT PUT IN YOUR FOOD WASTE BIN

What you can put in your food waste caddy

You can recycle the following with the new food waste collection service:

  • all uneaten food and plate scrapings

  • raw and cooked food (including mouldy food)

  • fruit and vegetables (including peelings)

  • meat and fish (including bones)

  • dairy (cheese, eggs, eggshells, yoghurt)

  • bread, cakes, pastries, rice, pasta

  • tea bags and coffee grounds

  • kitchen roll

Please do not put the following in your caddy:

  • packaging of any kind (including ‘compostable plastic’ plates, cups etc.)

  • liquids such as milk

  • oil or liquid fat

  • shells from shellfish

  • anything else that is not food waste

Once your weekly food waste service starts, you should stop putting food waste in the green bin as we want as much food waste as possible collected by the new service. You can use your green bin if you have a missed collection and do not have capacity in your outdoor caddy until the next collection (see below). Windfall fruit counts as garden waste and can stay in the green bin, but be aware that heavy bins can trigger the lorry’s weight sensor and prevent them being emptied.

https://greatercambridgewaste.org/food-waste/weekly-food-waste-collections