Hull City Council documents detail plans for weekly brown bin collections across the city.
A report, which will go before the Communities Overview and Scrutiny Commission on Thursday March 13 states there are two ways in which the council could provide weekly food waste collections:
Option A) To collect food and garden waste every week in the same bin.
Option B) To collect food waste separately via a weekly food caddy service and continue a fortnightly brown bin garden waste service.
The report states that Option A is “the easiest” and “most deliverable” option and therefore recommends that the council introduces “weekly brown bin collection of food and garden waste to households with gardens and a weekly collection of food waste from all other households from April 2026.”
Currently brown bins are collected every two weeks, but the council has received £1.495m of government funding for the introduction of weekly food waste collections. Hull City Council will not be alone in this venture, from April 1, 2026, council’s in England must offer weekly food waste collections.
In March 2024, under the previous Conservative government, almost £300m of funding was announced to help councils to introduce weekly food waste collections. At the time the then Recycling Minister Robbie Moore said: “Weekly food waste collections are a central plank in delivering a simpler, easier recycling system for all. It will help to stop food waste heading to landfill and support our goals of tackling both waste and climate change.”
The council report also states: “It is anticipated that East Riding of Yorkshire Council will change their mixed food and garden waste brown bins from a fortnightly collection to a weekly collection in line with the recommendations for Hull City Council as set out in this report.”
