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Here is today's Northern Agenda: By ROB PARSONS - August 3 2022 What do you do with your leftover food after dinner? Scrape it straight into the general waste with other domestic rubbish or into a separate bin so it can be recycled?
Apologies for the slightly personal question to start today's email but it's relevant as it looks like from as early as next year, local councils will be legally required to collect food waste separately and recycle all the waste that cannot be redistributed.
After the Environment Act was passed in 2021, local leaders across the North are now wrestling with having to change their practices and the extra cost that comes with that.
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