NEW FOOD WASTE TRIAL STARTS

Newport City Council has announced that it will be extending its recycling services even further, with the start of a food waste collection trial in March of this year.
Let’s collect it, let’s compost it – that’s the message from the council as 1,300 households are offered the chance to recycle their food waste on a weekly basis.Households involved in the trial have already received a notification leaflet, informing them that the new collections will be coming to their street.This will be supported with the delivery of a detailed user guide, as well as new food caddies and liners in which to place their kitchen scraps. From mid-March, a specialised Wastesavers lorry will follow dedicated food waste collection routes that incorporate streets in Rogerstone, Riverside, Baneswell and Maindee. If the trial proves to be a success, the council hopes to roll-out the scheme to the rest of Newport in manageable stages. With kitchen waste making up 39 per cent of the rubbish left in Newport bins, the trial follows years of development by a council that is committed to reducing the amount of waste being sent to landfill.In 2006 Newport was one of the first city’s to develop a food waste collection scheme.