26 July 2023
Your request
- Does your council currently offer a food waste collection service to its residents?
- What percentage of households in your council are provided with this food waste collection service?
- What type of food waste collection do you provide? [e.g. where do you collect the food waste from and how often]
- How long have you been providing a food waste collection service to residents?
If NO, please provide the following information:
- In line with the Environment Act 2021, when will you provide a food waste collection service to your residents?
- Please state the reason why you do not currently provide a food waste collection service to your residents?
Our response
- Yes
- We collect food waste from all kerbside properties but only 6000 properties from housing estates are on the program. In total 91122 properties out of 150272 are able to access food waste collections which is 61%.
- In Lambeth, food waste is collected from house/kerbside properties. Lambeth Council is expanding its food waste collection services with the aim of having all the council housing estates in the borough included by 2025. In March 2023 new food waste bins and caddies were delivered to 12 estates in the borough, doubling the number of communal properties that receive these collections. If residents are living in a flat/estate, the council will be rolling out food waste to every resident in the coming years.
Kerbside properties are provided with an internal kitchen caddy, as well as a 23-litre external caddy.
The waste is collected weekly.
- Lambeth introduced food waste collection services to all kerbside properties in 2014.
- N/A