Whitehall has insisted that local authorities will be funded for new burdens connected with plans to introduce compulsory weekly food waste collections.
The pledge from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) comes as local authorities call on the Government to disclose the model it has used to calculate the financial impact on councils.
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