Food Waste Collections

Do you recycle your food waste? Could you recycle more?

Please check out Gloucestershire County Council's latest information leaflet on why you should and how to get started.

Gloucester City Council can provide residents with two food caddies - a small food waste caddy for you to keep on your worktop or under the sink and a larger outside caddy to use for collection. Both caddies have locking handles to prevent spills and smells, and to protect the contents from vermin.

The contents from the small caddy should be emptied into the large outside caddy - which should be placed at the kerbside by 7am on collection day. This is a weekly collection, so you never need to hold onto your food waste any longer than 7 days.

Food waste caddies are now chargeable (large - £6 and small £2.50). If you would like new or replacement caddies please order online.

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What you need to know

To keep your caddies clean, you can line them with any type of plastic bag, newspaper, kitchen paper, paper liners or compostable liners.

All these things can go into your food waste caddy:

Meat & Fish (raw and cooked including bones)
Dairy products
Cooked and raw fruit and vegetables
Bread, cakes and pasta
Uneaten food from plates
Tea bags/leaves
Coffee grounds
Eggs/egg shell
Cereals

Please don't put these into your food waste caddy:

Liquids
Crockery
Pet carcasses or faeces
Cooking oil (small amounts can be accepted. Larger quantities can be recycled at the Household Recycling Centre at Hempsted)