At your setting you should have several bins for different types of waste:
General waste
This is anything that doesn’t go in the other bins. It costs more to have this bin collected, and if it is overweight you can be charged extra. So to reduce your costs too, consider how to reduce what goes in this bin and change collection to fortnightly. Food packaging is a huge source of waste.
Food waste
Reduce food waste with appropriate portion sizes and offer any leftovers for seconds to colleagues and even parents. Tweak the menu/recipes if items are unpopular. Any remaining food waste should go into composting (or wormeries!), or to a food waste bin for collection.
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