Making food recycling easier

You can now use ordinary plastic bags to line your food recycling caddy, thanks to new mechanical sorting techniques that separate the bags from food waste.

This will hopefully make it easier and cleaner to use the kitchen caddies and so encourage more people to do so. At the moment, about a fifth of the waste put in black bins is food that could be recycled. Not only is this bad for the environment, it also costs taxpayers' money - money that could help protect front line services as our central government funding reduces.

Further information is available at www.southglos.gov.uk/foodrecycling and you can also find out more at roadshows including:

• Waitrose Chipping Sodbury, 25 October, 8am to 4pm
• Sainsbury’s Emersons Green, 27 October, 9am to 6pm
• Yate Town Centre, 31 October, 9am to 4pm