English councils that fail to offer separate food waste collections to all homes from April could face judicial review, a Whitehall insider has warned.
Wychavon DC has admitted the introduction of food waste collections for households would be delayed for two years to ‘allow for a smoother and more cost-effective rollout of the service'. It has written to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to confirm it will not meet the deadline due to a ‘combination of existing contractual constraints, uncertainty over government funding to run the service and local government reorganisation'.
