Food Waste

Left over dinner food waste A third of all food bought by UK households is thrown away. To reduce this amount, to save your money and to get recipes and food waste tips why not visit the Love Food Hate Waste website or call free on 0808 100 2040.

Why not try:

Compost your vegetable and fruit peelings at home. Discounted composters are available for Gedling Borough residents. Follow this link for details.
An alternative to putting cooked food scraps in the black bin is to get (or make) a wormery. The worms will eat through these scraps, plus your peelings, and will provide free liquid plant food and compost to go on the garden.
Bokashi kits are an alternative way of dealing with food waste in your kitchen, without the worms. You can put in any food waste then add a handful of the supplied bokashi bran which contains micro-organisms. The unit is sealed once it’s full and left for a couple of weeks whilst you fill up a second unit. The nutrient-rich contents can then be put directly on to the garden or in a composter. See below for further information.

Cooked Food Composters

You can compost kitchen waste, including cooked food, dairy, fish, meat and small bones, in a food digester such as a wormery or bokashi system. Other types of food digesters, such as a Green Cone, will use heat and harmless bacteria in the soil to break down food waste into its natural components of carbon and water and produce no compost at the other end.

Reduced priced cooked food composters and further information are available online for Gedling Borough residents via the Get Composting website.