Food waste

Your food is collected every week. Use your small kitchen caddy to collect your food scraps each day and then transfer them into the large food waste bin which we'll empty each week.

What can go in your food waste bin?

All your raw and cooked food waste such as leftovers and spoilt food, and including:

• meat and fish - raw and cooked including bones
• all dairy products such as cheese and eggs
• raw and cooked vegetables and fruit
• bread, cakes and pastries
• rice, pasta and beans
• uneaten food from your plates and dishes
• tea bags and coffee grounds
• cooking oil, lard and fats (do not put cooking oil in plastic containers)
• old flowers

What cannot go in your food waste bin?

• packaging
• plastic bags
• glass

These can all go in your recycling bin.

Caddy liners

Plastic bags cannot be used to line your caddy as these do not decompose.

You should use a sheet or two of newspaper or compostable liners, which have the following logo:

Here are some of the places that we know stock compostable liners, although its also worth checking if your local shop sells them.

• A.L. Vickery & Sons, 5 The Green, Abingdon
• Appleton Community Shop, 39 Eaton Road, Appleton
• Barnards Way Post Office, 12 Barnards Way, Wantage
• Blewbury Post Office, Heather Way, Blewbury
• Bob the Butcher, 1 High Street, Harwell
• Budgens, 3-7 Marlborough Street, Faringdon
• Burgrey Stores, 120 High Street, Sutton Courtenay
• Charlton Park G.C, Charlton Road, Wantage
• Childrey Village Store, High Street, Childrey
• Cumnor Village Store, 7 High Street, Cumnor
• E & R Goff, 11-13 Bridge Street, Abingdon
• East Hanney Post Office, Brookside, East Hanney
• F. Knight & Sons, 70-78 Ock Street, Abingdon
• Icknield Way Post Office, Curie Avenue, Harwell
• K & K News, Brasenose Road, Didcot
• Kingston Bagpuize Post Office, Faringdon Road, Southmoor
• M & S Pritchard, 6 Ridgeway Road, Didcot
• Milton Park Stores, 11h Milton Park, Abingdon
• Radley Road Store, 191 Radley Road, Abingdon
• Radley Village Shop, Church Road, Radley
• Stanford Paper Shop, 28 High Street, Stanford in the Vale

Liners can also be bought online from a number of retailers but please make sure they are 100 per cent compostable (with the reference EN13432 or with the logo - see above) and should be designed to fit seven litre caddies.

Missing food bins

If your large food bin goes missing after you've put it out for collection please contact our waste contractors Biffa (using the contact details on the right) so they can arrange for it to be replaced.