Food waste

It’s best to reduce food waste where possible; a family of four could save £83 a month just by reducing the amount of food they throw away. That’s around £1,000 per year!

However, sometimes waste is unavoidable. Recycling your food waste can help generate electricity to power households throughout the county, lower emissions and help make essential savings.

It costs less than half the amount of money to recycle food waste than it does to dispose of it as rubbish. If all food waste was recycled in Surrey, it could help save almost £5 million a year! These savings could then be redistributed to aid other essential services across Surrey such as social care, libraries and schools.