Folks have been suggested on the right way to stop meals waste liners splitting as extra collections are launched throughout Hampshire.
Take a look at Valley Borough Council mentioned weekly meals waste collections would start this week so residents might recycle meat, fruit and greens and tea baggage.
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council launched meals waste collections final week and mentioned it had already acquired stories that liners used within the caddies had been splitting.
In a put up on social media the council mentioned this might be averted if individuals made positive they didn’t overfill the liners or fill them with liquids or oil.
“The liners supplied are biodegradable and designed to interrupt down when moist,” the put up defined.
The council suggested residents to vary their caddy liners repeatedly, not overfill them and keep away from placing meals in them that was nonetheless scorching.
It additionally mentioned different liners resembling plastic bread baggage or fruit and veg baggage might all the time be used as an alternative.
In Take a look at Valley, meals caddies ought to now be left on the kerbside by 07:00 BST on assortment day. The meals waste will then be taken to an area anaerobic digester and become renewable power and fertiliser.
Councillor David Drew mentioned: “Meals waste makes as much as a 3rd of what is thrown away within the black bins, and this new service provides residents a easy approach to recycle it as an alternative”.
