A pioneering food waste collection service across south Shropshire could be scrapped as part of budget cuts by Shropshire Council, it has emerged.
A pioneering food waste collection service across south Shropshire could be scrapped as part of budget cuts by Shropshire Council, it has emerged.
Food waste is currently picked up in collections in Ludlow, Craven Arms and Church Stretton and sent to the biodigester at Coder Road, Ludlow to be processed, producing biogas and fertiliser.
About 5,000 tonnes of food waste a year is collected and green electricity is produced.
Councillor Keith Barrow, leader of Shropshire Council, raised the possibility the collection service could be axed at a meeting of Ludlow and Clee area local joint committee last night.
Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star
