I’d like to ask all your readers to make sure they put their food waste into their green caddies (or red bins for flats). Recycling food waste saves taxpayers money, is good for the environment and has never been easier. 

All our banana skins, tea bags and plate scrapings should go into the kitchen caddy. You can line your caddy with newspaper or one of the liners the City Council are giving away. If you have a garden and your own compost heap or bin that’s fine too.

If readers put food waste into their green wheelie bin the County Council has to pay to burn it at the Ardley incinerator. It costs half the price to take it to the sealed digester at Cassington, which makes electricity and fertilizer. And the City Council collects food waste every single week.

So I ask Oxford Mail/Times readers not to dump egg shells, bones and mouldy food in with mixed waste. Please use your greed food waste caddy (or red bin). If we all recycle all our food waste Oxford will recycle over half of all the stuff we throw away. 

Cllr JOHN TANNER (Labour)
City Council Board Member for a Clean and Green Oxford