English councils have been urged to speed up the roll-out of food waste collections as figures reveal 1,000 tonnes a day end up in landfill.
Currently, 156 English councils – amounting to almost half the total – do not collect food from the kerbside for recycling, according to research by The Co-op supermarket.
According to the Waste and Resources Action Programme, this means that 1,000 tonnes of food a day ends up in landfill.
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