In addition, the two named councils, and more, collect food waste together with garden waste, by sending out kitchen caddies and compostable liners.
Households use this brown bin to dispose of compostable waste such as grass and hedge cuttings and uncooked food waste.
Corn can be used to create non-petroleum plastic, which is often compostable.
Compostable waste would include kitchen waste.
That means that incinerators become less viable generators of heat and power if they receive less recyclable and compostable waste.
Compostable crops could be planted and, for example, the fertiliser burden could thus be reduced.
Compostable plastics combine the utility of plastics (lightweight, resistance, relative low cost) with the ability to completely and fully compost in an industrial compost facility.
The amendment prevents compostable waste from being included under recyclable waste.
