In Britain, 15m tonnes of food waste is produced every year and unfortunately nearly 40% of that ends up in landfill. We have mentioned in previous articles that Londoners are really bad at recycling, local governments are try their best to make us better with new initiatives and programmes.

East London Food Waste Recycling

London’s “Curry Mile” or Brick Lane has been offered a separate food waste collection service by Tower Hamlets Council. This scheme is being offered to businesses in Brick Lane and neighbouring areas such as Spitalfields to avoid sending food waste to landfill. Instead, food waste is sent to “anaerobic digestion” plants to be converted into energy.

Back in 2008, 85% of all waste generated in the East End went to landfill sites, which meant Tower Hamlets council were on the very bottom rung of Britain’s recycling league table. It led the local authority to bring in separate weekly ‘kitchen waste’ collections that year, with almost half of all household waste being food.

Household Waste Recycling in London

Legislation for recycling food waste separate from household and industrial waste are expected to become law throughout the UK in the near future. In Scotland regulations have already come into force where businesses producing more than 50kg of waste a week are now required to make arrangement for separate collections.

Recycling in London

Don’t become a wasteful Londoner, contact us to find out how we can help you recycle food, furniture and electrical items. Together let’s stop sending rubbish to landfill sites!