Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Government has to promote the usage of brown food waste bins.

The provision of food waste collections has increased, with 50% of local authorities in England providing a dedicated food waste collection in 2016/17, either separate or mixed with garden waste, an increase from 27% in 2009. Separate food waste collected for recycling increased by 15% in 2016 to 353,000 tonnes from 307,000 tonnes in 2015.

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has carried out pilot projects to help local authorities increase the amount of food waste collected. Alongside industry, WRAP has also published a Food Waste Recycling Action Plan which sets out sixteen actions to increase food waste collection.