\n The new service will be rolled out to 102,673 households in total with 59,099 Poole houses, 12,365 Poole flats, and 31,209 Bournemouth flats. Food waste\u00a0collections will for these households will be\u00a0every week on the same day as rubbish and recycling starting from April 6, 2026.\n<\/p>\n
\n From\u00a0January\u00a0to March\u00a02026,\u00a0all new households benefiting from the service will\u00a0be\u00a0delivered\u00a0everything they need to\u00a0get\u00a0started.\u00a0\u00a0Individual households will receive\u00a0a\u00a0kitchen caddy and an external food waste bin, and flats will receive\u00a0a\u00a0kitchen caddy and\u00a0communal external food waste bin.\n<\/p>\n
\n The expansion of the service\u00a0comes\u00a0as\u00a0part of the UK Government\u2019s Simpler Recycling reforms,\u00a0designed to make recycling easier and more consistent across England.\n<\/p>\n
\n For BCP\u00a0residents, these changes will be free and mean a consistent\u00a0food waste\u00a0recycling service is in place, so no matter where you\u00a0live the\u00a0rules will be the\u00a0same\u00a0and recycling will be simpler.\n<\/p>\n
\n Food waste will be taken to a special recycling plant in Dorset where it is broken down to create renewable gas which will be used to make electricity going to the national grid. The process also produces a rich soil booster that\u00a0supports\u00a0local farms to\u00a0grow crops, so they\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0need to use as many chemical fertilisers.\u00a0.\n<\/p>\n
\n Around 30% of household rubbish bin\u00a0contents are food waste by separating this it cuts down on the amount of waste that ends up in landfill.\n<\/p>\n
\n Every bit of food waste recycled helps cut council spending,\u00a0meaning more money can go towards services that\u00a0benefit\u00a0everyone in the community.\n<\/p>\n
\n Councilor Andy Hadley, Cabinet Member for\u00a0Sustainability and\u00a0Environment said: \u201cI know the people in Poole have wanted this for quite some time not least because they know that Bournemouth and Christchurch have it. I think it is something that people will really welcome, it allows them to separate out their food from other waste, it should also save the money because actually when you see how much food you\u2019re throwing away separately from other stuff, then maybe that will give some people a cause to think about it in a sort of I\u2019m buying this stuff and I\u2019m throwing it away.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis is a free service, it\u2019s part of the national reforms, and it is about reducing the waste that goes to landfill and we will get energy from it and compost that the farmers will use.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe can\u2019t force people, but we want\u00a0\u00a0to get it right, it\u2019s a better resource, it gets used. So it\u2019s beneficial to people\u2019s tax bill, but more than that, it\u2019s beneficial to them as a household, it\u2019s a good thing for everybody. We need to get back to doing things in a more sensible way but there will probably be hiccups along the way, and we just need people to be a little bit tolerant\n<\/p>\n
\n As the scheme is part of national recycling reforms it has taken longer to roll out the service across all areas of BCP. Cllr Hadley said \u00a0\u201cThe national reforms have been some years in the coming, and I think we thought it would happen quicker, but there\u2019s a significant cost involved in setting up the lorries, buying caddies for in the house and for outside. So, there\u2019s a significant cost and it is part of the national reforms, they\u2019ll [the government] pay for that. So, we would be keen not to load our local taxpayers with funding it if we could get the money from government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new service will be rolled out to 102,673 households in total with 59,099 Poole houses, 12,365 Poole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-359029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}