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Remember Only compostable liners can be used to line your kitchen caddy. Biodegradable or degradable bags are not acceptable as they do not break down at a suitable rate for the processing plant. FREE compostable liners are available from: • Any of the Council’s 15 recycling centres • Council depots at Gortrush and Killyvilly and Council offices at The Grange and Public Services Centre, Omagh, and Townhall, Enniskillen If you don’t have any liners you can also wrap your food waste in newspaper. Please note: compostable liners will begin to break down and become unusable over time so please only obtain liners from any of the above venues and facilities as you need them. Recycling– It’sworth it! 16 | Inform Winter 2017 Inform Winter 2017 | 17 In September your Council rolled out the food waste caddy collection service to an additional 22,000 households across the district. These households joined the 22,000 households that were already having their food waste collected in a brown wheelie bin or food waste caddy meaning that almost every household in the district can now recycle its food waste. Why are we collecting household food waste? New Legislation The introduction of the ‘FoodWaste Regulations’ (NI) means that you must dispose of your food waste into your brown wheelie bin or brown caddy for collection and recycling. It saves money Sending waste to landfill is expensive. It costs approximately £120 per tonne to send waste to landfill while it costs approximately half of that to recycle food waste. It’s good for the environment When food waste rots in landfill it produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas which contributes to global climate change. Removing food waste from landfill reduces the level of harmful gases being released into the atmosphere. Recycling your food waste has never been easier! What food waste should I place in my brown wheelie bin or food waste caddy? You can place all food waste in your food waste container including; We really appreciate your recycling efforts. In September we collected and recycled approximately 109 tonnes of food waste in the separate food waste caddy from households across the district saving approximately £13,000 alone on landfill charges. These savings can then be invested into providing services within your community. This is a fantastic start to the extension of the food waste collection service but we still have more to do. By 2020 we must recycle 50% of household waste in the district to comply with legislation. In 2016-2017 45.3% of your household waste was recycled. Make sure you recycle at every opportunity; making the most of your household recycling and food waste bins and the 15 recycling centres and 35 bottle banks located across the district. Thank You! No thanks Please do not throw any of the following into your food waste caddy or brown wheelie bin: Packaging of any kind Liquids Plastic bags Keep up to date For useful information on recycling and the reuse of over 300 everyday items download the free Bin-ovation App by visiting the App Store or Google Play. ü ü ü ü ü ü ü û û û Where your food waste goes Within the Fermanagh and Omagh district households in an urban setting have a brown wheelie bin to dispose of both their food waste and garden waste, while households in rural areas have been provided with a brown 23 litre caddy for the disposal of food waste only. We collect your food waste caddy every 2 weeks Your food waste is processed at Granville Eco Park in Dungannon Your food waste is transformed into clean renewable energy Households in urban areas A refuse vehicle collects brown wheelie bins, which contain food and garden waste, from households in the district’s towns fortnightly. Once collected, the food and garden waste is brought to Natural World Products in Keady where it is processed into high quality organic compost. Households in rural areas In rural areas a special POD vehicle, which has a separate compartment at the front of the vehicle to enable a separate food waste collection, is used to collect food waste contained within the brown food waste caddies from households fortnightly. A POD vehicle provides the most efficient and cost effective food waste collection service in these areas. Once collected, the food waste is brought to Granville Eco Park in Dungannon where it is transformed into clean renewable energy. We collect your brown wheelie bin with your food & garden waste every 2 weeks Your food & garden waste is processed at Natural World Products, Keady Your food & garden waste is transformed into high quality organic compost to produce more food Place all food waste into your kitchen caddy Place all food waste into your kitchen caddy Using garden compost made from food waste is Keith Cranston from the Council’s horticulture team with Anthea Owens, Recycling Officer and Michael McKinney, Biodiversity Officer