KEEPING UP THE FIGHT ON FOOD WASTE

About 25 per cent of waste in residents’ blue bags is food waste although this is really easy and convenient to recycle every week. That’s why even more residents are being urged to take up food waste recycling, with only about half of households currently participating.

More than 11,000 tonnes of food waste have been recycled thanks to Wokingham borough residents since April 2019. That’s enough to power 1,210 homes for a year or a day’s power for 443,960 homes. Or in the context of Wokingham borough, almost a week’s worth of power for the borough’s 70,000 homes. But we need to do more.