RECYCLING
What happens to my food waste?
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because leftovers and out-of-date food
can actually be a force for good. You just
need to recycle it instead of dumping it.
Most households in the borough can
use the council’s weekly food waste
collection. It is easy. All you have to do is
place your leftovers, scrapings, tea bags,
peelings and out-of-date food in your
green food waste bin, and put the bin
out on your collection day each week.
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this page, all of the food recycling that
Ealing Council collects is taken to a
special processing plant – where it is
broken down and gets converted into
electricity that gets pushed into the
national grid to heat and light homes.
What is left is used as fertiliser for
farms. None of it goes to waste.
For details of the new Ealing
recycling app, turn to page 30.
Waste less,
save money
Another way to help is to throw
away less food in the first place.
In the UK, we throw away seven
million tonnes of food and drink
from our homes every year, a
lot of which could have been
used. This costs the average
household £470 a year.
There are two main reasons why
we throw away good food: We
buy or make too much or we do
not use it in time. Remember:
n Use by date on food packaging
is about safety
n Best before date is about quality
n Freezing
acts as a pause button.
You can freeze pretty much
everything. It is safe to freeze
food up until the use by date.
Find out more at
www.food.gov.uk or
www.lovefoodhatewaste.com
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