Southwark Labour have decided to curtail food waste collections by no longer providing free biodegradeable bags to residents.

They say that normal carrier bags can be used or bio bags can be bought from supermarkets or that residents can wrap food waste in sheets of newspaper.

These may be true but what what will happen is food waste collections will plummet.

If Southwark Council don’t take food waste collections seriously why should residents.

But generally Southwark Labour have failed to hit their own recycling target by 2014 of 44% by a whopping unrecyclable 10% (they reached 34%). They are going to fail to hit government and EU targets of 50%. And these new steps to put people off food recycling will only make matters worse.

Come on Labour pull your recycling socks up.