Food Waste Collection Services

Food Waste is coming to West Lancs in March 2026.  

The national scheme means all Local Authorities have to provide residents with a weekly food waste recycling collection service. The scheme has been rolled out in many towns and cities across the UK and will be introduced in West Lancashire at the end of March 2026.  

How will it work?  

I live in a property where I have my own bin:  

Each home will be provided with an indoor and an outdoor caddy. The indoor one will be small enough to fit in your kitchen. You could place it on your kitchen worktop, on top of your fridge or in a cupboard.  

Your larger outdoor caddy will be stored with your other external bins.  

Alt Text: We will give you a 23 Litre Outdoor Caddy, a 7 Litre Indoor Caddy and caddy liners. The outdoor caddy should be presented at your collection point and both caddies lock by lifting the handle.

I live in a property that has communal bins:  

If you live in a property and share an external communal bin with your neighbour(s), there will be a new 240 litre external communal bin provided for food waste. You will also be given an indoor caddy. The indoor one will be small enough to fit in your kitchen. You could place it on your kitchen worktop, on top of your fridge or in a cupboard. 

Alt Text: We will provide a 240 Litre Outdoor Communal Caddy, a 7 Litre Indoor Caddy and caddy liners. Lift the handle to lock the indoor caddy.

Your caddies will be delivered to you in the new year. Please make sure you store your caddies safely; we will notify you when collections start.  

NOTE: We will notify you of your collection date before the collections start. Please don’t put your caddy out before then as we won’t be able to collect it.  

What you can put in your caddy  

Putting the wrong items in your caddy, contaminates the collection. If your food waste is contaminated, we will not be able to collect it. Check out the list below to see what you can put in your caddy. 

Alt Text: You can put all uneaten food and scraping into your caddy as well as raw or cooked food, tea bags, eggshells, yogurt, rice, paste, bean, bread, cakes and any raw or cooked vegetables. You can’t packaging, flowers, liquids, oil or pet faeces in your caddy.

Food Waste is an important part of improving our recycling. Together we can make a big difference to our environment and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.

We will continue to update this webpage so please check back for updates. We will be sharing updates in a variety of ways to make sure all residents are informed of the new food waste collection service.