Have a green Halloween

Hallowe'en lanterns can come to a suitably grisly end this year, by being entombed in brown wheeled bins.
This is the first Hallowe'en since Aberdeen City Council's food waste service was rolled out to more than 65,000 households and the Waste Aware team is hoping that all vegetables slaughtered for spooky goings-on will result in a bumper crop of compost.


The lanterns will join other food and garden waste collected in Aberdeen and turned into compost by Keenan Recycling.
Previously, food waste was collected along with residual (black bin) waste and sent to landfill. Now it is processed through Keenan Recycling's Vertical Composting Unit (VCU) in New Deer and turned into compost. The end product can be used for a variety of applications including agriculture, horticulture and landscaping and is given away free to city residents at public events during the year.
The use of in-vessel chambers for recycling the waste into compost ensures that any bacteria are killed off during the composting process.
Items which can be disposed of as food waste include: beans; pasta; rice; bread; cakes; pastries; dairy products including eggs and cheese; meat and fish, including bones; tea bags and coffee grounds.
Items which cannot be disposed of in your brown bin include: animal bedding or faeces, including hutch waste and cat litter; bottles; cans; jars; food or drink containers; liquids, including oils and fats; plastic bags (including degradable or biodegradable bags). Only the bags provided by Aberdeen City Council should be used with the caddy as other bags marked "degradable" or "biodegradable" may not fully break down in the composting process.
This list is not exhaustive. If you have any questions regarding what you can or cannot put in your brown bin, or to order more bags for your food waste kitchen caddy, please call the Waste Aware Team on 08456 080919,
Pumpkins, turnips and other fruit and vegetables can also be composted at home. www.wasteawarescotland.org.uk
Pumpkins, neeps, marrows and any other fruit or vegetables used to make Jack O'Lanterns disposed of in this way will be mashed, mangled and rotted before ending up six feet (or less) under as compost. No trace of them will ever be found.


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