Food waste can go into standard grey bins Pic: George D Thompson

The beginning of the end has been called for food waste collections in Preston.

A meeting of Preston City Council’s cabinet approved the scrapping of the service which currently collects from 15,000 households.

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Launched in 2005 the service is now “obsolete” because food waste can now be put in with general waste collections.

The service being stopped will save up to £86,192 a year.

Cabinet member for resources, councillor Martyn Rawlinson, said: “Obviously some people still use that service and no doubt some of those will miss it, but the landscape has changed since it was brought in.

“It’s a saving we need to make for budget purposes but it’s a service that has become, to an extent, obsolete. But it does mean for people without a garden waste bin they are only going to get food waste collected fortnightly once again.”

The service will stop by Saturday 28 February 2015.

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