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Food Waste collection due to start in January 2026
All South Cambridgeshire residents will receive a small indoor kitchen caddy for the purpose of collecting food waste. If you have your own blue, black and green bins, you’ll receive a larger outdoor caddy for collection which should be placed next to your other bins on collection day. The outdoor caddies are animal-proof with lockable handles. Home composting is still encouraged, but you will now be able to send even food waste items that ought not to go on the compost heap to recycling. The food waste will be sent to an Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Plant to produce biogas (for electricity generation) and fertilizer. Check the food collection advice website to learn more. Some examples of what you can recycle with the new food waste collection service:
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General recycling
You can search for your bin collection day(s) by postcode. For general recycling advice on plastics, electrical and to find the location of recycling points in our area visit the Greater Cambridge Waste recycling portal. All households will receive a letter ahead of the planned food waste collection rollout to explain the scheme.
In addition, there are two leaflets - one for houses, one for flats with shared bins - which illustrate what can and can't go into the new food waste caddies and address common recycling issues.
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