How to use your food waste caddy

Find out how to use your food waste caddies, and when we'll collect your food waste.

How to use your caddies if you have kerbside wheelie bins

  1. During the week put your food waste into your grey indoor kitchen caddy. If you want to, you can line your caddy with a compostable liner. Do not use plastic bags as these cannot be composted.
  2. Transfer food waste from your kitchen caddy to your outdoor caddy as often as you need to. If you are using liners, tie them closed once they're full.
  3. Make sure the outdoor caddy handle is upright to secure the lid and help make it rodent, animal and pest resistant.
  4. On your collection day place your outdoor caddy on or by the pavement in front of your property by 5am.

You should clean your caddies regularly, whether using a compostable liner or not. Your indoor kitchen caddy is dishwasher safe.

An outdoor food waste caddy for a household with a kerbside collection. It is a medium sized, grey bin with a bright orange lid. When the handle is fixed in the up position, the bin is locked. When the handle is down, looping down behind the back of the bin, the bin lid is in the open position

An outdoor kitchen caddy for kerbside pick up, with open and shut handle positions

We collect your food waste weekly on your collection day between 5am and 10pm.

How to use your caddy if you have shared bins in either a block of flats or communal on-street area

  1. During the week put your food waste into your grey kitchen caddy. If you want to, you can line your caddy with a compostable liner. Do not use plastic bags as these cannot be composted.
  2. When full, tie the liner and transfer your food waste from your kitchen caddy to your shared food waste bin. Do this as often as you need to.
  3. Your new shared food waste bin will be near to where you already take your recycling and household rubbish.
  4. Always make sure you close the lid securely after use to help make the bin rodent, animal and pest resistant.

You should clean your kitchen caddy regularly, whether using a compostable liner or not. Your indoor kitchen caddy is dishwasher safe.

We collect food waste from the shared bins at least once a week.
A shared food waste bin for those living in a block of flats. It is a large grey wheelie bin with two back wheels, there is a circular hole in the top of the bin, and a green lid that, once closed, covers the hole.

An outdoor shared bin for blocks of flats

An on-street communal waste bin. It is dark grey with a green lid. A pedal in the bottom right corner operates the lid.

An on-street communal waste bin.