Camden council is considering running food waste trials for 5,000 households. This move comes after new dry recycling trials did not pull in the expected tonnages.
The majority of Camden’s 107,000 households have two residual waste collections a week. However for the last nine months in the trial areas, one of these has been substituted for a mixed dry recyclables collection.
Food waste collected in Camden would be sent to the Edmonton in-vessel composting centre for processing
With tonnages not as high as figured, the borough is now consulting the public until 14 March regarding the possibility of a food waste scheme.
If councillors agree to run the food waste trial, it would maintain the same 5,000 households area in parts of Frognal and Fitzjohns, Hampstead Town, Gospel Oak and Belsize wards.
Ann Baker, assistant head of street environment services, commented: “Existing trials for dry recyclables were not generating as much waste as we hoped so we are looking to see if getting food waste will increase our tonnages.”
The food waste trial would see intermixed collections of green and food waste collected weekly by Camden’s collection contractor Veolia Environmental Services. The facility’s operators Agrivert have requested that the council operate an intermixed collection.
Ms Baker added: “At the moment we are making it too easy for residents to use the residual waste service rather than recycling. I think the trials will encourage those who were taking the easy way out to change their habits.”
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