Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 18 June 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which local authorities in England and Wales send a majority of their food waste to landfill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what information her Department holds on the number of local authorities which offer their residents the ability to recycle food waste.
The following table represents the Waste and Resources Action Programme's best understanding of kerbside food collection schemes operated by local authorities in the UK up to
Number of authorities collecting food waste | ||||
None collected | Food waste collected with garden waste | Separate food waste collected | Both collected | |
England | 169 | 71 | 81 | 5 |
Wales | 0 | 1 | 19 | 2 |
Scotland | 17 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
Northern Ireland | 8 | 15 | 0 | 3 |
UK total | 194 | 95 | 107 | 10 |
In any authority's area, the scheme may not be available to every household.
Where only fruit and vegetables are collected with the garden waste, this is not counted as a “food waste collected with garden waste” collection.
Separate food waste collections are defined as those where the householder presents the food waste separately at the kerbside, even if the food is subsequently mixed with garden waste on the collection vehicle.
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