Food waste collections will be rolled out to South Holland towards the end of next year, according to a timetable from the county’s waste partnership.
Segregated food waste collections will become a legal obligation in a bid to cut down waste and all authorities will have to comply.
Funding is being allocated from central government to waste collecting councils, like South Holland, for capital purchases including new vehicles and caddies.
The county council, which is responsible for disposing of waste, has committed £9.6m towards infrastructure upgrades to meet the requirements of the legislation.
A meeting of the Lincolnshire Waste Partnership is due to be held on Tuesday (June 24) and a report to members outlines a timescale for the new collections.
“The LWP is continuing to make good progress and the partnership has reached a significant milestone with the appointment of a communications officer who is developing a communications strategy for the future roll out of the service throughout Lincolnshire,” says the report.
Planning applications for modification of five transfer stations have been submitted with permission given for Grantham and Boston for the Sleaford station. Applications are also being prepared for Louth and Gainsborough.
Discussions are also ongoing in the Greater Lincoln area for a new transfer station to accommodate the City of Lincoln and some of North Kesteven’s collections. In the meantime an interim station has been secured in South Hykeham.
The first quarter of this financial year (2025/26) should see collection vehicles delivered to West Lindsey while North Kesteven will be in the following quarter. Both councils will send out caddies and liners in the third quarter.
Lincoln and South Kesteven will receive vehicles, caddies and liners in the final quarter of this financial year.
In March or April of next year the collections will go live for those places with caddies and vehicles.
South Holland, Boston and East Lindsey receive their caddies, liners and vehicles in the second quarter of next year and collections are set to go live in the third quarter of the next financial year.
A total of 52 caddy liners will be given to householders to use in the caddies. They will be made from recycled plastic.
More disposal capacity has been secured at BioteCH4 anaerobic digester plants in March, Cambridgeshire, and Helmswell.
Once processed, the foodwaste is used for biogas or electricity. Some will also be used as a biofertiliser.
