Northern Beaches Council has concluded testing the first phase of a new food waste collection service, with approximately 1,700 households in Cromer and Dee Why adding their food waste to the green bin along with their garden waste. Phase two of the trial is set to begin this week with 1200 selected households in Terrey Hills, Fairlight and Manly Vale set to trial food collection in a separate burgundy food only bin. How did phase one go? A total of 330 tonnes of combined food and garden waste was collected, processed and sent for recycling. At this stage, council has been unable to provide data showing whether this exceeds the amount typically collected when bins contain garden waste alone, but it is early days. The initial phase ran...