Cork City the best in food waste disposal

Householders in Cork City are the best for segregating food waste. New figures show people living in the local authority area covered by Cork City Council have the highest rate of three-bin collections in the country.

A total of 83% of households in the city avail of a brown bin collection service — which is used for the disposal of food waste.

Fingal, Galway City, Leitrim, and Limerick City and County, South Dublin and Waterford City and County were the only other council areas to achieve a brown bin collection rate of over 50% of households. At the other end of the scale 0.23% of homes in Donegal — 131 homes — have a brown bin collection.