In a letter from Mole Valley District Council, dated 19th June 2009, it was announced that the food waste collection service will be resuming this week. This follows it's withdrawal earlier in the year when the trial's funding came to an end.

Due, in no small part I'm sure, to public outcry, new funding has been found and the council are now examining 'how food waste collections can be implemented across the rest of the district'.

If this happens let's hope it spurs Surrey County Council into building its digester, as currently food waste is processed in Dorset (the nearest licenced plant in the UK) and green waste is composted in Reading! See the article on the GMF's visit to Leatherhead's Materials Recovery Facility.

Richard Molyneux