National Food Waste Recycling Week

National Food Waste Recycling Week aims to encourage everyone to recycle food waste by providing practical advice along with hints and tips on how easy it is to recycle and get everyone involved.

All households in Ireland produce food waste. Some of it is unavoidable such as vegetable peelings and bones. Some households also produce avoidable food waste by overbuying food or not using up food before it goes out of date. Separating food waste in your kitchen and disposing of this in the food waste bin supplied by your waste collector is an important environmental action that all citizens need to engage with.

By using your food waste bin correctly, you are contributing to the circular economy and helping to create green jobs in Ireland. When curbside food waste is collected, it is sent for processing to either a compost site or an anaerobic digester. At composting sites, household food waste is converted into high quality compost and then used in agriculture and landscaping. If processed at an anaerobic digester your food waste is converted into energy.

People in Ireland are fantastic at managing food waste and sorting their brown bin properly. However, by inadvertently putting the wrong thing into it, it can undermine all your good work. So it is important that you do not contaminate the food waste with packaging such as glass, metal or plastic.

For further information on managing your household waste go to www.mywaste.ie