A local authority is encouraging its residents to recycle “every crust, peel and coffee ground” to help the environment and local farmers.
Reading Borough Council will give residents a free roll of food waste caddy liners over the festive season to encourage recycling.
Karen Rowland, the council’s environmental services and community safety lead, said Reading was recycling less food waste per household than Bracknell Forest and Wokingham and this gave residents “no excuse not to start”.
The council said all households and most flats in the Berkshire town already have access to weekly food waste collections but nearly 30% of general waste still consists of food that could be recycled.