Mole Valley District Council have been conducting a separate food waste collection in parts of the district, providing residents with food caddies.

From June 2007 to March 2008, 4000 householders in the North West of the district, including parts of Bookham and Fetcham have taken part in a trial to recycle their cooked and raw food waste, which is collected every week by dedicated vehicles and the amount of additional waste being diverted away from landfill is more than 30 tonnes per month.

At its meeting of the 10th June 2008, the Executive unanimously agreed to the continuation of the Food Waste Trial, with some adjustments and extension of the properties covered for another year. This will involve extending the trial to include 1400 more properties near the current trial area. A review of this trial has recently been published on MVDC's website. http://www.molevalley.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=5369

For the full minutes of this agenda item http://www.molevalley.gov.uk/media/pdf/q/8/Item_12_food_waste_report_Jun08.pdf

We note from point 3.2 of the minutes:
'Currently the collected food waste is transported to the Leatherhead Transfer Station where it is tipped into a dedicated skip before being transported to Dorset.  There is not the capacity for such an arrangement to accommodate all of Mole Valley's food waste.  Thus there is a need for the County Council to develop new facilities to deal with this demand.  The Portfolio Holder for Environment and officers will continue to lobby the County Council for the need for new facilities to allow food waste collections to take place.  However it is also suggested that officers do scoping work to identify any options that exist for Mole Valley to gain access to a processing plant for food waste.'