Food waste collections
Find out more about our food waste collection service, and how it works.
About food waste collections
Food waste collections are now available for all households across the city.
In Brighton & Hove, around a third of household rubbish is food waste, about 2.8 kilogrammes per household each week.
Our goal is for all food waste to be recycled into compost instead of being placed in household rubbish bins.
Don't contaminate your recycling
You can recycle all cooked and uncooked food waste, but make sure:
- you remove all packaging - including paper and cardboard
- you do not mix your food waste in with any other recycling
Too much contamination (too many wrong items in the wrong bins) can lead to us not being able to recycle whole bins, and in some cases, entire truckloads of waste.
What we give you
We provide every household with a 5 litre caddy to go in your kitchen, and a starter pack of two rolls of compostable caddy liners.
An indoor kitchen caddy
Compostable caddy liners
The type of outside bin we provide will depend on where you live. If you:
- have your own wheelie bin in a kerbside area - we give you your own 23 litre outside food waste caddy
- live in flats - we provide a shared food waste wheelie bin for you and your neighbours
- live in a communal on-street bin area - we have provided specialist secure communal food waste bins
We include instruction leaflets with your caddies. You can also download a copy of our food waste collections leaflet.
Caddy liners
Additional compostable caddy liners are available at most supermarkets, garden centres, DIY stores, or online.
Liners marked 'biodegradable' or 'home compostable' are not suitable, they must be marked EN 13432/14955.
Look for the ‘seedling’ logo.