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Your brown food waste bin

Recycle your food waste with our weekly brown bin collection

Your brown food waste bin is collected every week. The food waste bin is collected on the same day as your green recycling bin one week and your black household waste bin the next. 

Your food waste bin may be collected by a separate vehicle, at a different time (although on the same day) to your wheeled bin.

Use your small kitchen caddy to collect food waste each day and then transfer it into your larger brown food waste bin ready for collection. If you are taking part in the food waste for flats pilot, please transfer it to the communal bin provided.

Order a food waste bin and kitchen caddy

The delivery time for a food waste bin or kitchen caddy is up to 20 days. 

If your block of flats has a food waste bin in the communal bin store, you can now use the food waste recycling service. 


What can you put in your food waste bin?

All your raw and cooked food waste leftovers including:

  • Teabags and coffee grounds
  • Fruit and vegetables
  • Meat and bones
  • Bread and pastries
  • Fish
  • Dairy
  • Small amounts of shredded paper
  • Cut flowers

What can’t you put in your food waste bin?

  • Packaging
  • Plastic bags
  • Glass
  • Cat litter/animal faeces
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Wrapping your food waste

Please remember to line your kitchen caddy with newspaper or a compostable liner, as everything that goes into your food waste bin (including shredded paper) must be wrapped. 

You can simply use a sheet or two of newspaper to wrap your food waste in or, if you prefer to use a compostable liners, you can purchase these from most major supermarkets.

Choose liners designed to fit a seven litre caddy and make sure that they are fully compostable. Look out for the seedlings logo. 

Due to health and safety requirements, we are not able to collect food waste that is loose in the bin.


Why recycle your food waste?

By using a process called 'anaerobic digestion' we can turn food waste into renewable energy and a useful soil conditioner.

  • Eastleigh's food waste will provide enough energy to power 214 homes each year
  • Each lorry load of food waste will generate enough energy to power your fridge for up to four years
  • A single caddy load of food waste can generate enough electricity to toast eight slices of bread
  • Recycling just one tea bag a day for a month can produce the energy to make another five cups
  • Soil conditioner produced from broken down food waste improves the soil in local outdoor spaces like parks, farms and gardens

Food waste that is put into your black household waste bin does not get recycled. Instead, it goes to be incinerated, wasting this valuable resource.

How can I reduce the amount of food waste I produce?

You can find information on how to reduce food waste on the Love Food, Hate Waste website.

 

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Get started by signing up and ordering your free kerbside recycling bags. Find out more

Collection dates

Sign up to weekly collection reminders or view your collection dates. Residents offline can call our Customer Service Centre.

On collection day

Your bin must be left at the kerbside/highway boundary by 6.30am on the day of your collection, and be visible for our collection crews. Your collection time may vary on the day of collection.

Please number your bin

This helps them from getting lost, or being mistakenly taken in by others.

Missed bin

If your bin isn't collected before 2pm on the normal day of collection, you can report it as a missed bin.

Avoiding waste

Reduce, reuse and recycle to save money and help the environment.

How many bins am I entitled to?

Find out how many bins you're entitled to. Please note, unauthorised additional bins will not be emptied and may be removed.

Contact details
  • Eastleigh Borough Council, Eastleigh House, Upper Market Street, Eastleigh, SO50 9YN
  • Telephone: 023 8068 8000
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