For the first time 400 households around Whanganui are getting food scraps collected by Whanganui District Council for composting.
The 12-week trial is the first step in the council’s plan to introduce a food scrap collection across all urban households by July 2025.
The council is launching a kerbside recycling service in July this year.
Those households picked for the trial will be given green bins to dispose of their food scraps in, and to put out for collection.
The food scraps will be taken to a local processing business — Easy Earth — which will turn them into compost.