New weekly meals waste assortment coming to Solihull!

Residents in Solihull will profit from a brand new weekly meals waste recycling assortment this autumn, serving to to show their waste into renewable vitality and fertiliser for native farms. 

Solihull Council will start the service for most households from Monday 5 October.  

This signifies that in case you dwell in a home or flat and have your individual bin or sacks, we’ll ship two caddies to every family between August and September. Residents will obtain a 7-litre kitchen caddy and a 23-litre lockable outside caddy to maintain outdoors and deter pests, plus a information to utilizing the service. 

The new service comes as a part of the Government’s Simpler Recycling scheme, which is designed to make recycling simpler and extra constant throughout England. 

All you will have to do is put any meals waste you may have – resembling plate scrapings, peelings and tea luggage – into the brand new kitchen caddy. You can put most meals waste in your caddy, apart from liquids. When your kitchen caddy is full, empty it into your new outdoors meals caddy prepared to your regular assortment day.  

As residents will likely be recycling extra and placing much less waste into their garbage bin, most households could have their garbage collected fortnightly as an alternative of weekly from Monday 5 October. Recycling and backyard waste collections (if subscribed) will keep the identical.   

Solihull Council’s Cabinet Member for Environment and Infrastructure, Cllr Ken Hawkins, stated:   

“We’re excited to launch this new weekly service for residents, which offers a fantastic opportunity for us all to waste less and recycle more.  

“Over 30% of waste from Solihull households is food waste and the average UK family throws away up to £1,000-worth of edible food each year. 

“This new service gives residents the chance to cut down on the amount of food thrown away, save money, and contribute to a cleaner, greener Solihull.  

“Rather than burning food waste, it will be turned into fertiliser for local farms and renewable energy, making it better for our environment.” 

Residents are being invited to study extra concerning the new service and assortment modifications at a sequence of summer season data occasions, hosted by the Council’s waste and recycling staff and Veolia. The first takes place at 10am-midday on Saturday 6 June at Knowle Green Fair, St John’s Hall, High Street, Knowle. 

For extra particulars on the brand new meals waste assortment service together with what you possibly can and may’t put in your meals caddy, assortment modifications, and the summer season data occasions, go to www.solihull.gov.uk/collection-changes.