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It’s been a whole year of banana peels, coffee grounds, leftovers and plate scrapings finding a better home than the rubbish. Over the past 12 months, Feilding households have been getting into the food scraps habit, and all those small contributions have added up.
So, happy first birthday to our food scraps collection and thanks to everyone who has been part of its first year.
And what’s a birthday without a little something to celebrate?
Whether your food scraps bin makes it to the kerb every week, hasn’t been out for a while, or has never made its debut it's time to Bin it to Win It.
Every time your food scraps bin is collected and scanned during the competition period, you’ll automatically go in the draw to win one of two prizes:
an e-bike, or
- an e-bike
- a $200 grocery voucher
How To Enter:
1. Fill your food scraps bin
Use your bin for your household food scraps.
2. Put it kerbside on collection day
Have it out ready for your usual food scraps collection.
3. We collect and scan it
Your bin is scanned as part of the collection.
4. You’re automatically in the draw
No entry form. No photos. No fuss.
Already a regular? Keep it going.
Haven’t used it for a while? Give it another go.
Never used it? Now’s a great time to start.
Competition runs from Monday 12 October - Friday 28 November.
Bin It to Win It runs from Monday 12 October to Friday 28 November.
Your food scraps bin must be presented for collection and scanned during the competition period to receive an entry.
If it’s been a while since you used your bin, or you’ve never quite got around to starting, here’s a quick refresher.
Yes please:
- Fruit and vegetable scraps including peelings, cores, stalks and skins
- Bread, pasta and rice
- Dairy products
- Meat bones and scraps including fat trimmings
- Fish bones and scraps including shellfish shells
- Egg shells, nut shells and coconut husks
- Coffee grounds and tea leaves
- Fats/oils solidified if possible.
Learn more by visiting: Food Scraps Kerbside Collection in Feilding | Manawatū District Council
Keep particularly messy or smelly food scraps in the freezer and put them into your kerbside bin on collection morning.
Try placing a piece of newspaper in the bottom to help keep it cleaner.
Ecogas is a food waste to bio energy facility in Reporoa that accepts Feilding food scraps and uses anaerobic digestion to create renewable energy such as heat and biogas.
Manawatū District Council’s long term goal is to use our own anaerobic digester to process food scraps then in turn provide renewable energy back to the community through MDC’s partnership with Powerco.
Learn more: Fuelling the Future with Renewable Energy | Manawatū District Council