Find out more about recycling your food waste.

All Handel Mansions flats and self-catered rooms in other halls have food waste bins, so you can recycle your food waste 🍌

Each flat is responsible for emptying their food waste caddy by taking it to the external bins.

Flat etiquette: If you live in a communal flat, chat with your flatmates during your first week to agree on a quick bin rota so nobody gets stuck doing it every time! Keep it clean, and do not let it get too full before taking the bag outside.

You can use any bags in your food waste caddy that fit, but we recommend compostable caddy liners such as “Waitrose 20 Compostable Caddy Liners”.

Waste food has a big impact on climate change, but recycling inedible food waste transforms it into energy, and you’d be amazed at the good use it can be put to. 

• Did you know, for instance, that nine recycled banana peels could generate enough energy to fully charge a laptop?

• Or that a caddy load of food waste could generate enough electricity to power a home for almost an hour, or a guitar amp for almost 2½ hours?

When you put it like that, why wouldn’t you recycle your unwanted food waste! 

You can read more about how food waste recycling works.

Avoiding food waste in the first place is the best thing to do. Whilst some food waste in unavoidable, e.g. eggshells, some peelings, bones – there is a lot you can do to plan your meals to not waste edible food.

Have you got any questions? Get in touch via sustainability@london.ac.uk.