Member

We must consider the issue of collecting food waste with garden waste. As a gardener, I like the idea of vegetable food waste and even cooked food being collected with garden trimmings for composting, but I have some concerns. WRAP says that we have 6.4 million tonnes of food waste and that the main items are bread, potatoes, bananas and salad items. That is all great composting stuff. However, WRAP also says that 250,000 tonnes of meat is dumped each year as waste. The main reason people dump raw meat is because it smells, looks off or is past its use by date.