Sheffield, an English city in the county of South Yorkshire, has started up a new, sustainable, city-wide food waste collection system. The 8,200 households that are participating in this trial received an outdoor collection bin and an indoor kitchen caddy on Monday to place their food scraps in for the next 12 weeks. The larger, outdoor bins will be emptied by the city each week and the food scraps will be taken to anaerobic digestion facilities to be turned into biofuels and nutrient-rich fertilizers. If this new program proves to be a success, we may be able to implement Sheffield’s food waste collection system in cities all over the world. This would be helpful in getting decomposing foods that create methane gasses out of landfills and back into the soil via compost.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-62729046