How Do We Fund Your Council Services? Where the Money Comes from and Where It’S Spent

SPRING 2020

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How the council pays for services 4 and where the money comes from Changes to bin collection New funds to help tackle days for Easter and May 7 homelessness and rough sleeping bank holidays Canopy Project set to see our Don’t forget that the day when your bins are collected will change 9 urban forest grow across the Easter bank holiday period in April. Easter egg packaging Get more active this including carboard boxes, moulded plastic, plastic wrap and foil can all springtime CONTENTS 11 be placed into your blue bin for recycling. Tackling the climate There are also two bank holidays in May – on Friday 8 May (moved from 12 emergency together Monday 4 May to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day), and on Monday 25 May. Pollinators campaign creates Easter – Usual day Revised day 14 a buzz Good Friday 10 April Tuesday 14 April First residents move in to new Easter Monday 13 April Wednesday 15 April 16 council homes in Trumpington Tuesday 14 April Thursday 16 April When it comes to food are we Wednesday 15 April Friday 17 April 17 spoiled rotten? Thursday 16 April Saturday 18 April Friday 17 April Monday 20 April Waste and recycling guide Monday 20 April Tuesday 21 April 18 Tuesday 21 April Wednesday 22 April ‘All out’ city council elections Wednesday 22 April Thursday 23 April 22 on 7 May Thursday 23 April Friday 24 April Win Love Cambridge Gift Friday 24 April Saturday 25 April 23 Cards in our readers’ survey May bank holidays Friday 8 May Monday 11 May Front cover: Cyclist on Midsummer Common Monday 11 May Tuesday 12 May • Did you know we produce an audio version of Tuesday 12 May Wednesday 13 May Cambridge Matters on CD for visually impaired Wednesday 13 May Thursday 14 May people? If you would like us to send you one email [email protected] Thursday 14 May Friday 15 May or phone 01223 457283 Friday 15 May Saturday 16 May Monday 25 May Tuesday 26 May Cambridge City Council Tuesday 26 May Wednesday 27 May Website: cambridge.gov.uk twitter.com/camcitco facebook.com/camcitco Wednesday 27 May Thursday 28 May Customer Service Centre Thursday 28 May Friday 29 May Mandela House, 4 Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1BY Friday 29 May Saturday 30 May Email: [email protected] Useful phone numbers: Benefits 01223 457721 | Corn Exchange box office 01223 357851 Council tax collections 01223 457760 | Council tax registration 01223 Grants of up to £500 available for 457790 | Environmental Services 01223 457900 | Homelink 01223 457917 Housing management (Rents) 01223 457070 | Housing repairs 01233 457060 | Planning 01223 457200 | Taxis 01223 457888 your VE Day commemorations Waste and streets 01223 458282 Are you planning a community event For all other enquiries please call: 01223 457000 Monday-Friday 9am-5.15pm to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Calls may be recorded for training purposes Day on the special bank holiday Hearing impaired via typetalk Phone: 18001 01233 457000 weekend of Friday 8-Saturday 10 May After hours emergency number: 0300 303 8389 this year? Got a complaint or compliment for the council? Visit cambridge.gov.uk/compliments-complaints-and-suggestions or If your group would like some help write to PO Box 700, Cambridge CB1 0JH staging an activity, you may be eligible Cambridge Matters editorial for a grant of up to £500. The grants are Cambridge Matters, Cambridge City Council, PO Box 700, Cambridge CB1 0JH open to community groups, voluntary Email: [email protected] Phone: 01223 457000 organisations or even groups of Cambridge City Council does not necessarily endorse the products or residents. services featured in advertisements in this magazine.Media & Marketing NEWSPAPERS | MAGAZINESPRINTED | WEBSITES ON To see whether your planned activity When you have finished with this magazine, would be eligible for a grant, call our please recycle it in your blue bin. 100% RECYCLED PAPER Grants Team using the contact details below, or take a look at our website for Design, production and sales KM Media & Marketing, more information. The closing date for County House, applications is Monday 20 April. 9 Checkpoint Court, Sadler Road, Lincoln LN6 3PW • Website: cambridge.gov.uk/ Website: km-media.co.uk MediaKM Media & Marketing & Marketing Telephone: 01522 692542 Your partner in publishing NEWSPAPERS | MAGAZINES | WEBSITES ve-day-commemorations Email: [email protected] ONLINE | IN PRINT | IN DIGITAL Email: [email protected] Phone: 01223 457875 cambridge.gov.uk • facebook.com/camcitco • twitter.com/camcitco 3

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Cambridge City Council is responsible for our community centres, of which 145,000 l Planning for new developments and collecting Council Tax from Cambridge were from priority groups, and our growth in the city and determining residents to help pay for the work of local community grants programme allocated planning applications – In 2019 we councils and the emergency services. £1m to voluntary and community groups adopted the Cambridge Local Plan and Council Tax is a property-based tax which for projects to reduce social and we are now consulting on the next plan. is payable on most domestic properties, and economic disadvantage for residents with We dealt with over 1,500 planning what you pay is divided between the county the greatest need. applications. council, the police and crime commissioner, l Dealing with antisocial behaviour and l Managing car parks – There were just the fire authority and the city council. calls about noise nuisance – We dealt over 2.2 million visits made to our There is one Council Tax bill per property with 555 reports of antisocial behaviour. multi-storey car parks. We continued to whether it is owned or rented and the We responded to 1,775 complaints about encourage people to use other forms of people who live there would normally be noise nuisance and served 35 abatement transport to help reduce peak-time responsible for paying it. notices in more serious cases. congestion and improve air quality. The city council will spend approximately l Providing housing advice and support l Organising elections and managing £98m this year delivering services in – The council and its partners prevented the electoral register – This year we Cambridge. We receive income from fees or relieved homelessness for just over 850 organised the elections held for the city and charges for services, commercial households and helped raise nearly council, European and UK Parliaments and property rents and Housing Benefit subsidy. £36,000 in donations to Street Aid. We regularly updated the electoral register Income also comes from your Council Tax provided £40,000 in the form of small l Responding to your enquiries – Our payments, grants from the government and grants to assist people in housing need. customer service centre handled over a share of local business rates. We are l Collecting local taxes, and 182,000 telephone calls, 59,500 face-to- landlord to more than 7,000 council homes, administering housing benefit and face enquiries and 50,500 email and the rents from these are kept separately support for Council Tax – We collected transactions. to pay for housing services. £80.6m in Council Tax from over 58,000 Last year your Council Tax helped to pay homes and £116.9m in business rates from • Do you need help with your Council for a wide range of services for Cambridge over 4,500 businesses (£6.5m of this will be Tax bill? Get in touch with us using the residents, including: retained by the city council). We paid out information below: l Emptying your bins and improving £31.5m in housing benefit and awarded Website: cambridge.gov.uk/council-tax recycling – Our shared waste service £6.6m in Council Tax support. Email: [email protected] collected 52,686 tonnes of materials for Phone: 01223 457790 recycling from the blue and green bins and recycling points across Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire. Council Tax l Providing leisure facilities including indoor and outdoor swimming pools Council Tax is payable on most domestic properties. These are usually houses or During the year there were just under flats, but can also be other types of property such as a houseboats or caravans. The 550,000 casual swims in our swimming percentages of the Council Tax Cambridge residents pay is divided up as follows: pools and just over 202,000 visits to our sports facilities. Nearly 88,000 of the visits Cambridgeshire were made by people with Fire Authority concessionary memberships. 3.86% l Keeping streets and open spaces clean Cambridge and tidy – We maintained over one City Council million square metres of grass and 10.85% collected waste from bins in parks and open spaces. We responded to 193 reports Cambridgeshire Police of graffiti and investigated 1,238 incidents and Crime Commissioner of fly tipping. We also responded to 410 12.47% reports of abandoned cars and issued 510 Cambridgeshire fixed penalty notices for littering. County Council l Providing community centres, 72.82% community development activities and a community grants programme – Just under 165,000 visits were made to

4 cambridge.gov.uk • facebook.com/camcitco • twitter.com/camcitco Spring edition How does the council pay for services and where does the money for them come from? Where the council’s money comes from

Commercial property Council Tax £10.2m Business rates £9m £10.3m

Government grants £6.1m

Fees, charges and Commercial other income initiatives Total income £23.5m £4.7m £97.9 million

Other £1.7m

Interest and investment income Housing Benefit subsidy £1.3m £31.1m

Where the council’s money is spent

Transport (inc. car parks) Climate change, environment (inc. and community safety bin collections, street cleaning and £9.8m environmental health) and city centre £9.4m Communities (inc. cultural services, arts Reserves – inc. money & recreation, and set aside to pay for community centres) services in future years £12.9m £7.8m

Central services (inc. elections and local tax collection), Total strategy and partnerships expenditure £7m £97.9 million Housing services (excl. council housing) £6.5m

Planning policy and open spaces (inc. parks) Housing Benefit £6.5m £31.5m

Commercial Capital contributions Corporate and democratic property and other expenditure management costs £1.8m £2.1m £2.6m

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Spring edition What we do to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in Cambridge At the start of this year we made a a wide range of services for single successful bid to the government for homeless people, and a substantial nearly £500,000 in new funds to spend number of local people who are not on reducing and ending rough sleeping actually homeless, but live in insecure in Cambridge. accommodation or lead a street-based This will mean that the council, and lifestyle. These services have helped other organisations we work with, will be more than 500 Cambridge people find able to appoint more people to work with homes since 2013. current and former rough sleepers. Some We administer a fund to help of these new positions will be created to previously homeless people pay a support people living in 34 new self- deposit and advance rent when moving contained accommodation units which into privately-rented accommodation. will provide new homes for people with a In addition to supporting the history of homelessness. Cambridge Street Aid fund [see side The new funding will benefit panel], we work with other organisations Cambridge-based projects in a number of to ensure that up to 40 council or different ways, including: housing association tenancies each year l Additional money for the Cambridge are available exclusively for former rough Street Outreach Team, who work with sleepers or people at risk of rough rough sleepers so they can access sleeping. accommodation and health services; We also run a programme of late night l Getting additional help for people on patrols to assist people who are sleeping the streets with mental health, substance rough, direct them to where safe beds misuse or general welfare problems; are available and appoint a support l Supporting former rough sleepers worker to help them find a solution to Three ways you moving into new tenancies; their housing situation. l Expanding Townhall Lettings, our social Along with our partners, we engage can help rough lettings agency which was set up to with everyone in Cambridge that we provide good private sector housing for know to be sleeping rough, offering sleepers in single homeless people; advice and support. Many people Cambridge l Creating a new ‘skills sharing and sleeping rough have complex health mentoring’ scheme, to help rough sleepers issues, including addictions, and some 1 If you are worried about and former rough sleepers connect with find it difficult to accept the assistance someone you have seen others in the wider community. that is offered, for a variety of reasons. sleeping rough you can inform the As well as this new funding, each year Nevertheless, the council and its many national organisation Streetlink, so they we work closely with a number of local partners remain committed to helping can be offered any help and support groups on projects to reduce and some of the most vulnerable people in they may need. Phone 0300 5000914 prevent homelessness and rough our community put their difficulties or visit streetlink.org.uk sleeping, and help fund them. behind them, and to move on with We provide, commission and support their lives. Donate to Cambridge Street Aid, 2 the charitable fund which provides grants of up to £750 to help people get off and stay off the streets. You can do this at contactless donation points in the city at Mandela House, the Guildhall, Grand Arcade and at Co-Op store in Chesterton Road, Hills Road, Histon Road, Perne Road and in Burwell, or online via camscf.org.uk

Visit the new Street Support 3 Cambridge website to find out more about services for rough sleepers in Cambridge and how you or your business or group can help, including by donating items or by volunteering. Visit streetsupport.net/cambridge

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If you are not able to do this yourself At the time of this magazine going to they will explain who locally can help you print, the government’s advice was that EU through the process – see also the citizens and their family members wishing to information about Cambridge Ethnic stay here after the UK leaves the EU need to Community Forum and Cambridge complete three steps by 30 June 2021: Online, below. l Proving their identity You can get help from Cambridge CAB l Showing that they live in the UK at their daily drop-in sessions – visit their l Declaring any criminal convictions main office at 66 Devonshire Road or one There are different routes available for of their city-based outreach sessions. For government’s EU Settlement Scheme applicants to have their identity documents more information phone 01223 222660 or assisted digital project, a service for checked as part of their application. These email [email protected] people needing digital help with the scheme. As with the support offered by include scanning identity documents using l Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum an Android phone, sending documents by (CECF) can provide assisted digital support CECF, you must contact the co-ordinating post, or visiting one of the ID document for people needing help with an organisation, We-are-Digital, on 0333 scanner locations across the country. The application for EU Settled Status through 344 5675 to arrange an appointment with nearest one to Cambridge is located the EU Settlement Scheme. This is by Cambridge Online. Cambridge Online in Peterborough. appointment only – you can book an is not able to provide advice or guidance, Local help with making your application appointment by calling We-Are-Digital they can only help you through the digital process. Assistance with online l Cambridge Citizens Advice Bureau on 0333 344 5675. (CAB) can help with advice on whether CECF cannot provide immigration advice applications is also available at Cambridge you are entitled to settled status. If you are, on any EEA applications, but they work in Central Library in Lion Yard if you need it. they can explain how you can do this partnership with a consultancy who can. yourself by downloading the government l Local charity Cambridge Online is also • For full and latest information about app to your smartphone. They can also able to help you through the the EU Settlement Scheme take a look at the government website www.gov.uk

cambridge.gov.uk • facebook.com/camcitco • twitter.com/camcitco 11 Cambridge Matters Tackling the climate emergency – seven things you can do this week… 1 Reduce the impact of your travel Try walking or cycling on some shorter journeys that you might usually do by car. Or if you’re heading further afield, why not look at taking trains and buses instead of going by car or plane? Another option to travelling for work is to use videoconferencing or phone conferencing instead. Do you really have to travel by car for that meeting? Could your next vehicle be hybrid or electric? Call 0345 266 9290 for more information.

2 Join the city’s car club – now with its first electric car The city’s Enterprise Car Club, set up by the You can join the Enterprise Car Club you need to make for a particular task city council and the county council, has as an individual or a business. Members – for example if moving house or recently added an electric car to its fleet of then have access to 38 vehicles in and taking items to the household vehicles on offer to members in Cambridge. around Cambridge as well as 1,400 recycling centre. The new car, a Nissan Leaf, is based at vehicles nationwide, many of which are There are a number of different Arbury Court car park, off Alex Wood Road. low-emission or electric membership types available, and there By joining the car club and choosing is currently a special offer for to drive one of their low-emission or Cambridge residents on the Annual electric vehicles, you can help reduce Standard Plan, reducing the first year’s fossil fuel usage and improve air quality membership fee from £60 to £20, with a at the same time. There are also larger £20 driving credit. For more details visit vehicles available such as vans, which enterprisecarclub.co.uk/cambridge could reduce the number of journeys or phone.

3 4 Use less plastic We recently signed up to the Cambridge coffee cups; switching to reusable Plastic Pledge, which encourages shopping bags; buying more loose fruit, Reduce businesses and organisations in veg and refillable goods, refusing plastic your home Cambridge to reduce the amount of straws and avoiding ‘disposable’ single-use plastics they use. Residents plastic-based products where energy use can also contribute in a number of ways, alternatives are available, like razors, such as using refillable drink bottles and nappies and toothbrushes. Instead of always using your tumble dryer to dry your clothes, you could use a washing line or clothes rack instead. Many homes lose energy (and money) through 5 Save on water poor, or no insulation, so making sure your home is properly insulated is beneficial to We live in an area of relatively low you and the planet as it will mean you rainfall, and an increasing population have to use less heating. Other simple means greater pressure on water ways you can reduce energy use are: resources. It takes energy to process l Installing smart meters so you can see the water we use, so it makes sense to how much energy you are using limit the amount we waste. Ways in l Avoiding leaving TVs and smartboxes which this can be done include: on standby, and unplug devices when l Taking shorter showers and using they are fully charged eco settings l l Always washing full loads of clothing in Installing a water butt to save your washing machine, and wash at 30 rainwater to use on your garden if degrees or with an economy setting you have one l l Setting your thermostat to turn on only Putting a ‘hippo’ water when you need it, and only to 18 degrees displacement device in toilet l Exploring renewable energy sources like cisterns solar PV, solar thermal, air or ground- l Repairing dripping taps (which can sourced heat pumps. waste 5,500 litres of water a year)

12 cambridge.gov.uk • facebook.com/camcitco • twitter.com/camcitco Spring edition 6 Embrace sustainable ...And 10 things fashion the council is doing The Cambridge Sustainable Fashion Festival is back for its Carbon emissions from our own second edition on Saturday 21 March from 11am-5pm, at St buildings, vehicles and services Barnabas Church on Mill Road. have fallen by just over 25% Clothing has a massive environmental impact – thousands since 2014-15. This has partly of litres of water are used in the manufacture of one pair of been due to our own energy- jeans, the clothing industry is the world’s second biggest saving projects, and partly due to industrial producer and it’s estimated to be responsible for a national shift to renewable around 12% of global greenhouse emissions. Despite this, we energy sources, which has buy (and dispose of) more clothes than any other Europeans. reduced carbon emissions from the electricity we use. Among The festival features a local clothes rental scheme, tips from the projects which are helping us reduce our carbon emissions fashion experts on having a smaller but and helping Cambridge residents and businesses to reduce better wardrobe, a pop-up market their emissions are: featuring sustainable brands and makers 1 Installing solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on large council that put ethical production, quality and buildings including the Guildhall, Mandela House, Parkside sustainable fabrics at the heart of what and Abbey swimming pools and our Waterbeach depot in they sell, plus a clothes Repair Café and order to provide renewable energy. workshops teaching sewing, clothes 2 Improving the energy efficiency of council workplaces and upcycling and visible mending. Further car parks by installing low energy LED lighting and improving details at www.circularcambridge.org heating and hot water systems. 3 Installing a total of 21 electric vehicle charging points for 7 taxis by 2021 and requiring all taxis to be ultra-low-emission Repair or swap by 2028 your household items 4 Developing a strategy to make it easier for people to own electric vehicles, which includes exploring options for more Rather than taking household items to the electric charging points in our car parks, and developing household recycling centre, or throwing planning policies requiring electric charging points in new them in the garden shed when they stop developments. working, why not repair them instead? 5 Encouraging cycling by improving cycle routes through our Local group Circular Cambridge hold regular repair cafes work with the Greater Cambridge Partnership, and installing and other events around the region, which match more cycle parking stands in the city centre. experienced repairers, to people who bring in broken items to be mended - from electronics and DIY tools, to toys, 6 Improving the energy efficiency of existing council homes jewellery, bikes and clothes. They recently held a Swap, through installing loft, cavity wall and external wall insulation. Collect and Fix-Fest in Arbury where as well as repairs, local 7 Ensuring that new housing in the city is built to high people could take part in a toy swap, bring larger household sustainability standards, including new council and private items for recycling and arrange for their bulky waste to be homes and investing £1.5m in energy efficiency removed by the council. improvements for the least efficient council homes We spoke to some local residents and ‘fixers’ at the event 8 Installing a new public water tap on Parker’s Piece and about why they chose to get involved… promoting the Refill app, which shows over 100 sites across Local resident Rebecca Foreman said: “I came along with the city where free drinking water is available. three items, two electrical and a sewing item. I had a 9 camping hotplate that blew up and a portable DVD player Introducing measures to reduce plastic consumption at that wasn’t working and then I had a pair of vintage baby Cambridge Folk Festival and The Big Weekend. Cambridge Folk booties chewed by the dog.” Festival was recently given an ‘Outstanding’ accreditation at Resident Agnes came along with her son: “We came along the ‘A Greener Festival’ Awards, one of only six festivals to the toy swap and Repair Café to do all we can for the worldwide to receive this highest accolade. The world-famous environment. As well as bringing a bicycle, a pair of jeans festival has reduced unnecessary plastics, uses low carbon and a cushion cover for the Repair Café, we’ve came along transport, sources ethical food, uses renewable energy on site with loads of toys to swap and my son found some toys to and promotes environmental issues to people attending.’. take away. I’d rather use something again that someone else 10 Supporting a series of environmental workshops and events is not using, we want to try to stop buying new things.“ delivered by voluntary and community groups, including a Sewing repairer Tessa said: “I heard about Repair Cafes Sustainable Fashion Festival (see above), composting through Cambridge Matters and now I am repairing as a workshops and sewer for the first time today. I have booked in a kettle too! I workshops for • For more information: am helping today because I have skills, I am especially businesses on Website: cambridge.gov.uk/ passionate about clothes and people chuck things sustainable food and greeningyour-home unnecessarily. I want to the world to be here for my children.” reducing plastic waste. Email: [email protected] Phone: 01223 457176

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Last year we declared a Biodiversity l Snip your stems into lengths to fit the that the Mill Emergency in the city in response to the frame (as wide as the plank), discarding Road area is threat to our city’s animals, birds and plants. any bent or knobbly ones. It’s a good idea Cambridge’s During this year and the coming years, we to include some really big stems (cut with number one hot will be working on a range of projects to a fine saw), even though they’re no use to spot for support our plant and animal life. the bees; they speed up the assembly hedgehog This springtime, one of our main focuses is stage, look attractive and help shelter sightings. One of the best ways to help urban on encouraging more pollinating insects in lacewings and ladybirds over winter. hedgehogs is to create connectivity for them the city such as bees and hoverflies. To do l Lay your frame on a tilted surface and so they can roam more freely at night. this we are creating more wildflower carefully pack it with stems. Only as you Creating a small hole in your fence allows meadows and long grass areas in some of add the final few does the whole thing them to do this as hedgehogs need to roam our parks and open spaces, and leaving suddenly lock solid. to forage, mate and find suitable nesting more dead wood for nesting bees. l Place your finished bee hotel in a sunny sites. The council recently contacted the We recently constructed the ‘bee hotel’ position, sheltered from rain if possible. Friends of Gwydir Street (just off Mill Road) pictured above at Christ’s Pieces. This is a residents’ group to ask if they would like to great way of attracting and assisting solitary Borrow our Community Moth trap: If become the city’s first official Hedgehog bee species who do not live in a large you’re interested in finding out more about Highway. This is a street where all the community. Bee hotels are very easy for you the city’s amazing moth population, you can gardens would aim to have holes in their to make at home. Here’s what to do: now borrow a fences so hedgehogs can roam freely. Many moth trap from Gwydir street residents were enthusiastic You will need: the council. The and have produced a flyer to publicise the l An untreated wooden plank, at least 10 trap, which is scheme. Now, if the house has a hole in its cm wide. battery fence for hedgehogs, residents can put a l Plenty of hollow stems of different operated and hedgehog symbol in their front window. By diameters (including the bees’ preferred harmless to doing this it is then possible to see which 3-5 mm), such as bramble, reed or moths, can be houses still need holes. If you live on a street bamboo. borrowed by that might be interested in creating another l Saw, drill, screws and secateurs. youth groups, schools, community groups or Hedgehog Highway, get in touch. We can l A fixing to hang the finished nest up. even families and individuals. Full also arrange to come and put hedgehog instructions are provided, along with an holes in residents’ fences. Building your bee hotel: identification guide – and best of all, it’s l Cut the plank into four to make a completely free. Email [email protected]. • For more information about hedgehog rectangular frame that the stems will sit uk for more details. holes and what you can do to encourage inside. wildlife visit wildlifetrusts.org l Drill guide holes for the screws (to stop the Cambridge’s first Hedgehog Highway: Email: [email protected] wood splitting) and assemble the frame. Hedgehog surveys last summer revealed Phone: 01223 457000 14 cambridge.gov.uk • facebook.com/camcitco • twitter.com/camcitco IS YOUR GARDEN A PLOT OF GOLD?

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16 cambridge.gov.uk • facebook.com/camcitco • twitter.com/camcitco Spring edition When it comes to food, are we spoiled rotten? As a nation many of us waste more food freeze what you can’t eat in time than we would like to. It’s all too easy to Unite in the food waste fight! shop without checking what we already There are lots of small habits that we all have at home, to boil too much rice, need to change to achieve the above goals leave salads to wilt in their bags, chuck – but they all add up to make a big out half loaves of bread or end up with difference. The average UK family of four cartons of out-of-date milk because we could save up to £70 a month simply by bought a spare, just in case. When it eating all the food they buy.But it’s not just comes to food it could be said that we our wallets that could benefit. Lots of are spoilt for choice, but we can all avoid energy and water is used to grow and being spoiled rotten. transport the food we buy, so this all goes Together, we can stop food being to waste when we throw it away. If global from the bin – and there’s loads of help wasted by making some small and simple food waste were a country, it would be to get you started. Go to changes that will benefit us and our planet. third largest emitter of greenhouse gases www.lovefoodhatewaste.com, follow There are three main ways that we can after China and the US. By using up every LoveFoodHateWasteCommunity on stop wasting food: edible bit of your food, you’re doing your Facebook or @LFHW_UK 1. Store food properly – keep your fridge bit to look after the environment; imagine on Twitter, and check below 5°C, check the best place to store what we could achieve if we all make a out the produce, and freeze food before it goes change! #SpoiledRotten off. campaign, and 2. Buy what you need – plan meals, make Love your food don’t forget to a shopping list, measure portions Whether you’re doing the food shop or share your tips to 3. Eat what you buy – make a plan for the ordering a meal at a restaurant, every avoid food waste fresh food you have, use up leftovers and decision is an opportunity to save food as well. Recycling your food waste Did you know that the food waste you The composting facility makes 23,000 put in your green bin is composted IT TAKES AROUND EIGHT tonnes of compost from Cambridgeshire along with garden waste to make soil WEEKS TO TURN THIS... households’ food and garden waste conditioner for local farms and every year. It costs the county £220,000 gardens? But for that to happen it’s per year to remove incorrect items that important to get it right. have been wrongly put into the green Use a kitchen caddy to separate food bins, and dispose of them correctly. waste, and line it with newspaper, paper caddy liners, or just put food in loose. Do Why are bio-plastic / corn-starch / not use bio-plastic bags. compostable plastic bags not accepted? There are many different kinds of these bags, and they do not break down quickly enough for the fast composting process that we use. We are working with our processor to test bags and see if any could be used in ...INTO THIS future, but for now please do not use them, as your bin may not be emptied if you do. You can collect the compost made from your food and garden waste for free! The soil improver is available from the Amey Waste Management Park, Ely Road, Include tissues and kitchen paper along Waterbeach between 8am and 4pm with all cooked and uncooked food Monday to Friday and 8am to 1pm on waste, including meat, bones and dairy. Saturdays. You need to take along your Regularly empty your caddy into your own spade and bags, and it’s worth green wheelie bin and put it out for calling ahead to check that supplies aren’t collection on your normal recycling day. running low on 01223 861010.

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