Norwich City Council has introduced a weekly food waste collection service so you can recycle even more from your home.
About the scheme
The new food waste collection service is the only one in the county available as a standard, ongoing service (rather than a trial), and will collect all food waste from the home, including leftovers from meals, food that has gone past its use by date, and any other food waste from your kitchen. It is an extra service to those currently operating in the city.
This weekly collection service will help the city to slash the amount we send to landfill, making Norwich a cleaner, safer, and more eco-friendly place.
Who can use it?
Everyone who has their own wheelie bin automatically receives this new service, as well as many people who currently only have black sacks for their household waste.
This is an extra service to those that you already receive. Food waste collections will be weekly, on the same day as your recycling or waste wheelie bins are collected, making the service simple for everyone.
What you can put in your food waste bin?
Yes please! All food waste - no packaging! This includes:
- leftovers from your meals
- meat - raw and cooked, including fat, bones
- fish - raw and cooked, including bones and shells
- eggs including the shells
- all dairy products eg cheese
- vegetables and fruit - raw and cooked
- bread, cakes and other baked goods
- rice, pasta and beans
- tea bags and coffee grounds
- cooking oil, lard and other fats
- tinned and dry pet food
No thanks!
- packaging of any sort eg cardboard, plastic film
- plastic bags
- other recycling
- glass
- garden waste
- straw or other animal bedding
Download the food waste collection service leaflet (560 Kb pdf) and information on how to cut your food waste.
Contact us
For more information about waste and recycling in Norwich please click here, email info@norwich.gov.uk or call 0344 980 3333.
Recycling credits
Norfolk County Council pays recycling credits to Norfolk district, borough and city councils, charities and voluntary groups as a direct financial incentive to encourage more recycling and reduce the amount of rubbish we send to landfill. A higher-rate recycling credit, specifically for food waste, supports Norwich City Council’s food waste collection service.
More food waste collection schemes in our county could lead to future development of new waste treatment technology in Norfolk, helping to develop a network of facilities to generate power and heat from our waste, reducing costs and our dependence on fossil fuels, helping us tackle climate change.
Visit Norfolk County Council's website for further informtion about recycling credits and recycling technology, or call 0344 800 8004.
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