RECYCLING
Ealing children making recycling fun
Don’t waste food waste
Recycling your leftover
food is more important
than you might think. It
makes a big difference
to the environment, it
can create power for
homes, and it saves us
all money. Most people
are doing it – are you?
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around ealing April 2018
S
ome people do not realise
that one of the simplest ways
they can make a difference
to the planet – and to their
pockets – is to stop throwing food
waste in the rubbish bin.
Food thrown in the bin instead of being
recycled has a big, negative impact.
It ends up in landfill, where it creates
harmful gas (methane) and pollution
(leachate, or ‘bin juice’) as it rots.
Every tonne of food waste sent to
landfill instead of being recycled also
has a knock-on effect for everyone’s
council services because it results in
a ‘landfill tax’ – effectively a fine. It
is money that would be better spent
elsewhere and could also impact on
council tax
rates.
But it does
not have to
be this way,