What Happens to Food and Green Waste?

Your food and garden waste that breaks it down into compost. To find out how it happens, read on or click on the link below to watch our brand new video reveal all:

Video - What happens to my food and green garden waste?

• Your food and garden waste is collected at the same time as your recycling by one of our new split body collection vehicles.

• The food and garden waste is mixed together at the borough’s bulking facility at the Household Reuse and Recycling Centre on Hornsey Street.

• The food and garden waste is then taken by lorry to a composting facility in Edmonton, North London.

• The material is placed inside in-vessel composters, where it is transformed into compost over several months.

• The compost is PAS100 accredited, which means that it is quality assured, traceable, safe and reliable. Most of it is used by farmers, but some of it does end up on Islington’s parks and green spaces.