Food Waste Collection Service
Once a week we collect your food waste at the same time as we collect either your refuse or recycling. 
Each household should have an:
- outside food bin
- inside kitchen caddy
How to use the food waste service
- Scrape unwanted food waste in to your kitchen caddy
- When your kitchen caddy is full or you no longer want the contents in your kitchen, put the contents into your outside food waste bin
- On your collection day, place your food bin at the boundary of your property with the handle in the locked position
About your food waste bins
- |Order a new or replacement outside food bin or inside kitchen caddy
- |How to use your food waste bins and line them
- |How to keep your food bins clean
- |Find out your collection day details
Flats and Communal Properties
The Elmbridge Bin Collections Service is available to around half of the 7,000 communal properties in Elmbridge. Contact the |Environmental Care team if you're unsure what your collection arrangements are.
What can go in my food waste bin?
See the list on the right for what can and can't go in your food waste bin.
|Find out more about what can and cannot go into all your bins.
Love Food film
Watch our |three minute online film 'Love Food', to find out more about how the service works and some tips for using it.
Why is the Council collecting food waste?|
Studies have shown that we throw away a third of all the food we buy. Before we started collecting food waste in October 2009, the average household bin in Elmbridge contained around 40% food waste. By collecting it separately and recycling it, it no longer ends up in landfill sites where it decomposes without Oxygen underneath tonnes of other waste. When food waste rots in this way it generates large amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Instead, the collected food is composted and turned into a fertiliser which is used on agricultural land.
|Find out how you can reduce the amount of food waste you produce.
Find out more
- |Contact the Environmental Care team
- |Visit our Elmbridge Bin Collections pages
- |Visit our Frequently Asked Questions
