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FOOD FOR THOUGHT HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT This April we are starting weekly food waste collections, which will be picked up alongside your blue bag and recycling black box on the same day and time as they are now. From mid-March every household will receive a lockable 23-litre kerbside food waste container along with a 5-litre kitchen caddie and a roll of liners for it. This is in addition to your usual annual supply of 80 blue bags (more for larger families). Once your indoor caddy is full, close and secure the liner, transfer the bag to the See the caddies and learn more outdoor caddy and lock its lid to keep the about the new service: contents safe from animals and to deter flies. • Council Offices, Shute End – December This larger caddy only needs to go kerbside on • Wokingham Library – January collection day. Regularly emptying your indoor • Earley Library – February caddy and storing the outdoor one out of direct sunlight will minimise potential smells. • Morrisons, Woosehill, 5 February, You will be able to get additional kitchen caddie liners from our Council offices and 10am – 2pm libraries, as you do now with blue bags. • Asda Shopping Mall, Lower Earley, 12 If you currently get assistance with your waste and recycling, you will automatically be February, 10am – 2pm eligible for assisted food waste collection. • Waitrose, Twyford, 19 February, 10am To begin with this service will only be for houses, not flats. Because flats come in – 2pm various shapes and sizes with different access and waste and recycling services, we • Woodley Library – March want to get it right. So we will be working out the best way to provide effective food • Finchampstead Library – April waste recycling at flats in each location and will contact you before we start your food • More dates to be confirmed on our waste collections. So until that time, carry on using your current refuse and recycling website services. More information: What can go into the food caddy? www.wokingham.gov.uk (search ‘rubbish and recycling’) (0118) 974 6000 ✔ Yes please • All cooked and un cooked foods • Tea bags and coffe e grounds • Vegetable peeling Executive View s, banana skins, ap ple core Cllr Norman Jorgensen, Executive Member for • Pet food Environment, Leisure and Libraries • Out of date food (without packaging) “By recycling food waste, we can divert 30 per cent of u! yo k the current contents of blue bags away from landfill. That an ✘ No th d tin foil an ng pi ap wr , m equates to 10,000 tonnes annually, saving up to £100 per fil • Cling ys tonne for the public purse, as well as cutting methane tra • Pots, pollution and our carbon footprint. Our target is to recycle at ds • Liqui ste wa least 50 per cent of household waste by the end of 2020.” en • Gard ing dd be or er litt s, es m • Pet
