A new recycling trial has helped householders in Leeds cut the amount of waste sent to landfill in their area by recycling kitchen waste.
Rothwell has seen a noticeable increase in recycling rates, since the Leeds City Council introduced the pilot project that implements the collection of food waste among other improvements to collections. The scheme has been running just 12 weeks and already residual waste has been reduced in Rothwell by at least 6.25kg per home each week.
Instead of allowing kitchen scraps to rot in landfills, Rothwell residents now see their food waste collected weekly in little kitchen caddies. The kitchen caddies are then transferred into outdoor containers and taken away by the city for composting. The scheme also implemented fortnightly collections for green and black rubbish bins.
During the first half of the scheme, which has been 12 weeks, households regularly recycled up to half of all waste. This already exceeds the city’s current targets of recycling half of all waste produced by 2020.
Council research indicates that 30 per cent of all waste weight put into bins by householders in Leeds is comprised of food scraps. Residents in Rothwell now recycle that waste on a weekly basis with all other rubbish picked up fortnightly.
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