Children name city’s food waste trucks

The Leftovers Express, Breadie Mercury, and 3 other trucks have hit the road with dashing new names and designs.

We recently ran a competition with primary schools inviting children to design colourful messages about recycling food waste to go on our new food waste collection trucks.

We also asked them to come up with some names, and they didn’t disappoint!

Look out for the food waste designs and truck names

The new truck names, and where you will spot them, are:

• Waste Warrior (Hertford Primary School) north area
• Leftovers Express (Rudyard Kipling Primary School) east area
• Food Waste Hunters (West Blatchington Primary School) west area
• Breadie Mercury (Stanford Junior School) central area

These 4 trucks represent the 4 areas of the city where food waste collections were introduced in phases.

The designs show colourful, half-eaten food items, letters shaped by different types of food spelling out “Food waste in here”, a food-waste-eating monster and flowers growing out of compost made from food waste.

A fifth truck has been named by Environmental Services staff as The Very Hungry Caddy Filler and includes a design from Rudyard Kipling Primary School.

Our food waste crews have been taking the trucks to the schools involved and the children have been very excited to see their creations on them.

Inspiring more food waste recycling

Councillor Tim Rowkins, Cabinet member for Net Zero and Environmental Services, said: “I want to congratulate all the children for submitting their amazing designs and brilliant names for our food waste trucks. Each one is travelling around the area of the school that named it, so the children will have the opportunity to see their truck regularly.

“I hope the messages on these trucks will inspire more of us to recycle food waste so it can be turned into compost to grow more food. Collections now cover the whole city, so everyone can take part. It’s easy to do – simply put all cooked and uncooked food waste in your caddy or shared food waste bin, making sure you leave out packaging and any other types of recycling.”

Compostable caddy liners are the only material, other than food waste, that can be used in caddies or food waste bins, as they are made of corn or potato starch and break down easily. No other packaging can be processed with food waste – otherwise it can lead to the whole load being wasted

More information

Find out more about food waste collections on our website, where you can also check your collection day, report and track missed collections and order replacement caddies.