15/10/2026
👏👏👏 Keep up the great work... you've now diverted over 2,825 tonnes of food waste from your rubbish bins - roughly equivalent to 471 large African elephants!
🥳 Your food caddies are making a BIG difference! 🌱
Since we launched our food waste collections in June, we've now collected over 2,825 tonnes of food waste from your caddies*!🍌
That's roughly equivalent to 471 large African elephants worth of food you've collectively diverted from the rubbish bin, to be recycled into biofuel and biofertiliser 🐘
All your meat and fish bones, tea bags, coffee grounds, fruit and veg peelings, mouldy bread, gone off cheese, unsalvageable leftovers and more, add up - although Food Savvy Suffolk have great recipes and tips if they can be saved!
Please make sure to put your caddy out - with the handle up - the night before collection, beside rather than on top of your other bin
Then pull the handle all the way forward to lock between collections
🚛 You can always check if there's a delay to your collection on our website (just select 'bins and recycling' on the homepage)
Babergh and Mid Suffolk weekly food waste collection facts:
♻️ we have 16 dedicated food waste vehicles and crews
♻️ the crews travel around 9,000 miles a week
♻️ each vehicle is powered by either electric or low-emission hydrotreated vegetable oil
♻️ collectively, the food waste crews alone empty over 20,000 caddies a day and over 100,000 a week
♻️ your caddies are first emptied into a 'helper bin' which looks a bit like a normal waste bin, this is then hooked and loaded into the lorry
♻️ crews may leave your caddy on its side after collection to show it's been emptied
♻️ your caddy contents are turned into biofuel and a biofertiliser at these anaerobic digestion facilities:
Biogen in Halstead, Essex
and
BioteCH4 in March, Cambridgeshire
*tonnage up to 2 October 2026
